Insane numbers of illegals in Britain.
"Last year, we gave British citizenship to another 269,000 people, which is 30% higher than 2023 and the largest number since records began, in 2005.
Of those who were made British citizens, 209,000 came from outside Europe —with the largest numbers coming from India, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
Of the 148,000 people who arrived illegally on the small boats between 2018 and December 2024, 140,000 of them claimed asylum and more than half of those, 55%, were given an initial decision.
And of those, 67% were allowed to stay.
Senior civil servants have now conceded that the state will continue to house asylum-seekers in hotels for the next four years, at a considerable cost to British taxpayers.
Yesterday, we learned that 40,000 illegal migrants and asylum-seekers were being housed in hotels at the end of last year —an increase of nearly 30% on the month before the 2024 election, when Labour took office.
So, overall, what does this mean?
It means that last year Britain issued another 900,000 visas to people who coming to work, study, or join family members, while also receiving more asylum applications than at any other point in recent history and approving large numbers of them.
It means there is no evidence whatsoever that the small boats crisis is being resolved, or that the Labour government is fixing our broken borders."
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