Jihad Watch covered it in March: UK: Illegal migrant crossings of English Channel hit highest level this year. Homelessness in the UK was up over 25%, as the government put thousands of mostly Muslim illegal migrants from the Middle East and Africa in plush hotels, at a cost to taxpayers of $8.5 million USD a day. Many UK military families were reported to have no heat or hot water, while the government continued to do nothing beyond issue empty promises.
The cost to Britons far exceeds the accommodation of unvetted illegals, and it’s steadily rising. There are the costs of processing them, legal costs, welfare costs, healthcare costs, as well as mention security costs, which have dramatically risen. It’s all reflected in the £14 billion (17.5 billion USD) that British politician Dame Andrea Jenkyns noted.
How long can British citizens afford this? Particularly after COVID and the subsequent damages to the economy. Recently, with elections nearing, the Rishi Sunak government began rounding up illegals for deportation to Rwanda, just to make it look as if the government was handling the problem. That, too, cost money, and who knows how much more money is paid out in the myriad deals that the UK’s Conservative government has spent on optics. Failed promise after failed promise have shown that the government intends to do nothing but attempt to deceive the public at any cost.
An aside: there were also no expectations of illegals with regards to COVID vaccinations. Only law-abiding taxpayers faced threats of losing their jobs for refusing the experimental vaccine. They, too, are now footing the bill for illegals.
According to the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, “In 2020, the top five most common countries of nationality of people seeking asylum in the UK were Iran, Iraq, Albania, Eritrea, and Sudan. Of all refugees resettled in the UK from January 2010 to December 2020, around 70% were Syrian.”
“Illegal migrants cost the taxpayer £14 billion every year, says former minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns,” by Martin Beckford, Daily Mail, May 6, 2024:
A prominent critic of the Prime Minister will today warn that illegal migrants are costing the country at least £14billion a year in public services alone.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns will tell MPs that illegal immigration is posing an ‘existential threat’ to British society and security.
But she will say that it also imposes ‘astronomical’ costs on taxpayers which the ‘vast majority’ of the British public see as unacceptable.
Dame Andrea will cite official figures putting the cost of public services including health and education at £12,000 a year per person, and estimates of the illegal population at up to 1.2million.
‘Even the most basic calculation puts the economic burden on British taxpayers for an illegal migration population of 1.2million at £14.4billion, just shy of 10 per cent of NHS England’s budget for this year. Imagine that as a cash injection for our national health service,’ she will tell a Westminster Hall debate.
In addition, she will point out, the Home Office expects to spend £482million on immigration enforcement this year along with almost £8million a day in accommodation for those who have crossed the Channel in dinghies. The Government is also giving £370million to Rwanda in its flagship deportation scheme, and will give £476million in ‘handouts’ to the French so they can help stop the cross-Channel boats.
‘For too long, the UK has been seen as a free lunch. Study, work, marry or smuggle your way in and soon you are guaranteed a lifelong all-you-can-eat buffet for you and your extended family,’ Dame Andrea will say at the Westminster session……
Tony Rice says
I am sure there are back-stabbers who will say they are worth every penny. Personally, I can’t see what use they Are to our country, being ECONOMIC MIGRANTS . They are here to receive, not give, free housing, free schooling, free food and free HEALTH Care. And to attack infidels. And visibly campaign for killer Hamas people.
Geo says
I blame the ignorant UK politisations by accepting those refugees with the hate mentality.
I don’t want to say it’s too late but better now than later
somehistory says
Reps Chip Roy (Texas) and Lauren Boebert (CO) have warned about the mozlum invasion and takeover of government offices in the U.K.
It’s costing a lot more than the money being expended on ‘illegals.’
They said the U.S. is next.
Mike says
I recall Hugh Fitzergerald also had an article about how much Muslim migrants (both legal and illegal) are costing Germany each year.
For the sake of comparison, how would tgat compare to the situation in Britain? Of course, Germany has a somewhat larger population, so that would have to be taken into account.
Moreover, costs are not only in social services and housing, but also in disproportionate crime rates too.
B Teboe says
These so called migrants should be living in tent city in cold damp Britain.
Eva says
They shouldn’t be anywhere NEAR britain.
tim gallagher says
Sheer idiocy. Talk about sending your country broke and all to provide a pleasant life for a bunch of Muslim enemy invaders who want to impose stinking, barbaric islam on everybody in the country. The western world has gone insane with this type of garbage.
Spiro says
We barrow massive amounts of money running up a national debt that will eventually bankrupt the government
so we can send money we don’t have
in foreign aide and endless wars
Supporting illegals crossing the border
so they can be voters while homeless and veterans are ignored
The establishment just keeps getting
reelected so we’re bringing this on ourselves
Also our corrupt welfare state
Scotsman48 says
What did Rwanda do to deserve a bunch of young muslim men being delivered into a country in East Africa that had a genocidal War just a few years ago.
Even the amount of money the UK is going to pay them for taking the trash out of the UK will not be a good deal for them however it may take a year or two before they wake up and see what a drastic mistake they have made by taking the rubbish for the UK.. Like that massive floating Trash Barge years ago with Western rubbish looking for a poor Nation to take it off our hands..
If the UK can afford to send these people to East Africa then they can afford to fly them back to whatever shithole they came from and if they refuse to claim a Nationality then one will be provided for them, like Rwanda..
Best to merely start sinking the Boats in the Med and the Channel as a country would normally do when its being invaded then this will instantly stop the flow and give the Government the time and resources to round up those illegally in the country and deport them … Like that would ever happen… I can dream cant I ?.
Eva says
And yet the tories are going after the disabled.
If they stopped all moslem migrants, including the ‘legal’ ones, and deported the lot of them, that would go a long way to sorting the problems in this country out.
OLD GUY says
While they but migrants in plush hotels, foreign islamic/muslim countries are most likely making these political leaders off shore bank accounts plush.