Almost 500 illegal migrants have crossed in 2 days, since Starmer scrapped Rwanda

Will Starmer’s ‘new’ plan work? Sadly it was already tried by the previous government

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The total number of illegal migrants is now nearly 130,000

One of the first announcements made by the new UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was the scrapping of the Sunak government’s ‘Rwanda Plan’ for stopping large numbers of young undocumented males from entering the UK with assistance from the French Navy. His spokesman also said that some 102,000 migrants currently in the system would now be allowed to apply for asylum.

On Wednesday at the NATO Summit in Washington, the PM said he would not be putting any target numbers on reductions of boat migrants from France. This was on the day when the Home Office released its latest figures showing that nearly 500 illegal migrants had made the crossing from France since Sir Keir Starmer made his announcements.

Below we show the scale of the problem. These official figures are for the last seven years and they show ‘year-to-date’ for each of these years.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

1. Illegal boat migrants for last 7 years, year-to-date in each case

2018 : 11
2019 : 638
2020 : 2,503
2021 : 6,665
2022 : 13,318
2023 : 12,772
2024 : 14,058

[Source : The UK Home Office, 11 Jul 2024.]

2. Total number of illegal migrants since this started

NOTE: We have recently seen outdated charts in the press with lower total numbers, but our numbers and charts are up-to-date as of 09 Jul 2024 - the latest available.

Total No. of illegal migrants from start-2018 to 2024 year-to-date : 128,380.

No. of illegal migrants entering in the last two days alone : 484

Labour’s ‘amnesty’ for 102,000 migrants?

On Monday Sir Keir’s spokesman indicated that 102,000 migrants already in the country will be allowed to apply for asylum. Around 90,000 of these are said to be illegal migrants who were slated to be deported to Rwanda. It seems these people will now be allowed to stay.

On Wednesday in Washington DC, the Prime Minister said the following about a target for reducing immigration :

“What I’m not going to do is pick an arbitrary date, an arbitrary number because that hasn’t worked in the past.
“But I do want to be clear that my intention is to break down the gangs that are running this vile trade putting people into boats on the coast of France. Nobody but nobody should be making that crossing.”
- The PM in Washington DC, 10 Jul 2024.

This means we will have no means of assessing success or failure, as Sir Keir appears not to want to give the media any targets to judge him on. Instead we will have to continue analysing and reporting on the official facts and the public can then make up its own mind.

Observations

Whilst we have no wish to be negative, Keir Starmer’s plans to stop the boats appear to be no different to what the Sunak government had already been trying to do, without success. The numbers just keep on rising. Yes, some gangs have been arrested, but the trade is so lucrative that other gangs quickly take their place. The problem is that the demand simply doesn't stop.

These are 'Macron's Migrants'

It was Facts4EU that first used the term 'Macron's Migrants'. We did so to highlight the fact that all the UK's illegal boat migrants have come from the safe EU country of France. Yet when the previous government attempted to engage with the French on this issue, they said they could do nothing as it was an EU issue. Naturally this is not correct. If it were in France's interests to take its migrants back, it wouldn't hesitate.

The ‘Starmer Amnesty’?

On top of this, Sir Keir’s spokesman stated on Monday that over 100,000 migrants who are already illegally in the UK will now be allowed to apply for asylum. This sends a very encouraging message to all those illegal migrants who continue to mass on the northern French coast. Given that all migrants already have the right to apply for asylum, we believe this is a coded way of saying that an effective amnesty has been declared.

Scrapping Rwanda and opening up the asylum claims will, we believe, have precisely the opposite effect to the one which the majority of the British public wish to see. Time will tell. Unfortunately with thousands more migrants now expected to cross the Channel, time – and the patience of the public – are the two things in increasingly short supply.

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Reader Comments 14

1. Sparky , Friday, July 12, 2024, 05:02:

Wow, that’s a massive increase in 2021 and a similar high level for the following 2 years. What happened in 2021 to cause that increase??

2. Sparky , Friday, July 12, 2024, 05:42:

Just over half of the British adults voted at the 2024 general election, making it the lowest turnout by share of population since universal suffrage, according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research.

3. terence patrick hewett , Friday, July 12, 2024, 06:14:

Migration, both illegal and legal, will destroy Starmer and the Labour Party, like it has destroyed Sunak and the Tory Party. The political re-alignment of UK politics is accelerating.

4. LuxuryBalloon , Friday, July 12, 2024, 06:36:

4 The current government and the main stream media will start blaming Brexit on the exponential increase of illegal immigrants crossing the channel since we left the EU.

5. Old Albion , Friday, July 12, 2024, 07:28:

It surely will come as no surprise to anyone with a modicum of intelligence (even Sparky) that under Labour immigration will increase (legal and illegal)

6. Have You Wondered. , Friday, July 12, 2024, 08:06:

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1. Sparky
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They came through Europe.
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Europe has a bigger problem than the UK. - To the UK's credit - we treat irregular immigrants humanely!
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Search: bbc. news articles c0vv 717 yv peo
Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say
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Search:: brussels times. eu affairs 1054708 eu is complicit in dumping migrants in the desert in north africa says investigative report
"The EU supports, finances and is involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year ...."
"According to Lighthouse, the team established that the EU is well aware of the dump operations and sometimes directly involved. Two senior EU sources said it was “impossible” to fully account for the way in which European funding was used. "
"The internal documents obtained by Lighthouse show that EU officials had held internal discussions on some of the abusive practices since at least 2019. "
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Read it and contemplate all the implications. ECHR maybe even the ICC?
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7. Ashley Great Britain , Friday, July 12, 2024, 08:45:

What's the bet that the "Asylum claims" will almost all be granted. A week into a Labour Government and we can see what the coming years hold for us. Nothing will change with Liberal weak Government's that like immigration. Its gonna be a hell of a boat ride for all of us.

8. Carlo , Friday, July 12, 2024, 10:53:

Scrapping a deal negotiated by a previous government without having any evidence that it would not work is not the way to run a country.
It is incredibly unprofessional and arrogant.
But I did not expect a realistic assessment and a sobering up by this Labour government.
They said they would do it and they were voted in to do it anyway, so we also have to blame the voters.
Sadly the level is quite low across the board, but this was not a vote for change; it was a vote for swapping a bunch of incompetents with just another one.

9. NH , Friday, July 12, 2024, 11:07:

1. Sparky, "What happened in 2021 to cause that increase"
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Between 2021 to 2022 fist time asylum applications to the EU increased by approximately 350,000. UK small boat crossings increased by 6,650 (0.19% of the EUs figure). If we were still in the EU I am sure they would be relocating many more to the UK and we would still have the small boat crossings.

10. NH , Friday, July 12, 2024, 11:33:

2. Sparky, "Just over half of the British adults voted at the 2024 general election" "according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research."
They may need a new mathematician !
60% is 20% more than a half.
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It's low because nobody wanted any of the main parties but it's still far higher than EU elections which usually get between 40 - 50% turnouts. The record turnout in the last 30 years was the Brexit referendum, so obviously people felt strongly about that issue and it's very important we respect the result as most people have.

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