These are the rights that the Labour government is about to extend to 2.2 million migrants. How many family members will come as a result? Has the Home Office produced internal forecasts of future flows, or do they not care?
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Migrants who enter Britain under Mahmood's sponsorship scheme and commit crime that is "sufficiently serious" will be removed from the country. Unless of course it breaches their rights under the ECHR in which case they can stay.... Can Labour really not see how this ends?
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The Home Office has not yet announced a cap on the numbers that will arrive under its new sponsorship routes. Millions of migrants fall in scope. What's the cap?
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The refugee sponsorship route will initially apply to refugees in the countries below. There are over 4 million registered refugees in these countries - including 853k Afghans, 375k Somalians, and 83k Syrians. The Home Secretary is yet to put a cap on how many could arrive.
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The government plans to extend the duration of the Graduate visa to two years - forcing young Brits at the start of their careers to compete with hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals. Don't extend the Graduate visa. Scrap it.
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The Treasury is going to extend the graduate visa to two years. An awful decision that will only increase the challenges faced by young Brits trying to enter the workplace.
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3.5 million+ non-Europeans have been given an EU passport since Britain left the single market at the end of 2020. Top nations: Morocco, Syria, Albania, Turkey. An "honest conversation" about freedom of movement must recognise that the EU has changed dramatically since we left
New: Andy Burnham is “open” to rejoining freedom of movement. Since 2021, 750k Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Eritreans, and Iranians have obtained an EU passport. Under EU rules these migrants would have the right to move to Britain and access welfare. centreformigrationcontrol.co…
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Burnham says the government has been in consultation on its ILR reforms. Who has it consulted? The ordinary British taxpayer? Or armies of left wing lawyers, community activist groups and open border fanatics? The list of those consulted must be published in full.
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Government contractors are throwing taxpayers’ money at landlords to evict tenants and house illegal migrants. Another example of two-tier Britain. Red carpet for illegals, whilst Brits are thrown to the pavement.
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The Home Secretary announced proposals to reform settlement last November. The process has been set with delays and internal Labour Party disputes. As a result, 200,000 migrants have been given Indefinite Leave to Remain in the interim.
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This headline really says it all. Such is the weakness of the British government that even Eritrea is mocking us and the immigration crisis. We should not just be banning visas for Eritrean officials, but all Eritrean nationals. Including extensions.
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Illegal migrant who sexual assaulted a girl in Crewe has been sentenced to 15 weeks in prison. The hotel where he was staying, the Royal Hotel, continues to accommodate illegal migrants who have the right to roam the town.
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New: There are 470,000 households led by a foreign national in English social housing, an increase of 218,000 (86.5%) since 2010/11. The total number of social housing households increased by 251k over the same period. Unsustainable. Read more here: centreformigrationcontrol.co…
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Main applicants granted the right to stay in Britain under Article 8 of the ECHR last year will cost the British taxpayer £4.9 billion over their lifetime. And this is just one year's worth of migrants!
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The Home Office estimates that 55% of migrants refused the right to stay in Britain under Article 8 of the ECHR do not leave anyway.
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A staggering proportion of Article 8 ECHR first time applications made by migrants who entered Britain illegally or overstayed their visa, and now want legal permission to stay, are granted. They are illegal migrants. They should have no right to stay under any circumstances.
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The Times has urged the Prime Minister to implement reforms to Indefinite Leave to Remain. ILR gives foreign nationals access to welfare, social housing, and the NHS. 2.2 million people could potentially be granted settlement by 2030 without an extension to the time period.
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Net emigration is the joint most popular immigration policy position, along with net zero (one in, one out). Net immigration of foreign nationals is still in the hundreds of thousands every year. This damage can only be undone with a sustained period of net emigration.
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The solution to dodgy employment practices is to clamp down on the register of sponsors, not open up a route that allows further explotation of faulty modern slavery laws. We will likely see a surge in false claims as individuals look to circumvent visa rules & restrictions.
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There are serious consequences of allowing our health service to recruit from abroad on a huge scale. Falling standards, fraud, and corruption. It is time to admit mass migration is undermining the NHS, not propping it up as some would have us believe.
BREAKING: Two British doctors, Hamed Salehi and Elmira Yaghmaei, struck off by the GMC for running tutorials helping overseas doctors to cheat the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) test, qualifying them to work in the UK (via @bmj_latest) bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
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The political class is rolling out the red carpet for the world's very worst - complete with police escort. When the people of this country dare to protest they are demonized by the Home Secretary. The Channel crisis is not over until every last illegal migrant is removed.
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DPD is an approved service supplier for public bodies. Any firm found employing illegal workers should be removed from this list. The government should be mandating much tougher Right to Work checks for any org in the public sector procurement framework.
Eighteen illegal delivery workers arrested after immigration raid at DPD depot gbnews.com/news/migrant-cris…
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This has been the case in Whitehall for decades and just goes to show that Labour ministers are not actually concerned about reducing migration Damaging short term thinking that has prevented meaningful labour market reform whilst inflicting mass migration on the country.
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We are importing en masse people who hold backward and alien attitudes. Eritreans, Afghans, Iraqis. We need a red list banning certain nationalities from entering the country. Yet Shabana Mahmood is opening NEW routes from these places.
Woman 'sexually assaulted' in queue at Primark as man arrested thesun.co.uk/news/40564247/w…
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The political class are gripped by a failure of imagination. The crisis will not end until a full-throttled policy of detention and deportation is adopted.
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Mahmood’s resettlement scheme will open up new migration routes from the Third World on a scale that this country has never before soon. There is no economic case for this and there are grave security risks that the Home Secretary seems determined to ignore.
Shabana Mahmood’s new asylum routes for Afghans and Palestinians are a Trojan horse for unstoppable chain migration. As soon as the first migrant reaches British soil, they will bring relatives with them. This is not what control looks like, says Rob Bates buff.ly/3beQpxS
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No doubt soon to be given settlement by the Home Secretary.
Carer at home investigated by BBC struck off for threatening elderly man bbc.in/3TrRi2c
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There are genuinely people who believe that because this monster has been given some administrative paperwork he is “just as British as us”. The naturalisation process is a farce and centre-right parties must now set out bold steps to rectify the years of mismanagement.
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1,000+ migrants have crossed the Channel in the last week - 781 yesterday. But don't worry, because Border Force has a £25m waste disposal contract that "supports the Home Office’s commitment to fighting climate change and economic inequality".
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1,100 migrants are obtaining settlement every working day. The Home Secretary first announced her proposed reforms 300 days ago. Inaction has meant a population the size of Peterborough has now obtained the indefinite right to access Britain's welfare state.
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The government has failed to collect hundreds of millions in fines from organisations hiring illegal workers. Immigration Enforcement in this country needs a radical overhaul. Businesses facilitating and profiting from illegal migration must face debilitating sanctions.
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The British public are being made to spend billions of pounds to deal with the consequences of a catastrophic open border policy that they consistently voted against.
Your cash is supporting jobless migrants. Only British people should have access to benefits, writes Rob Bates gbnews.com/opinion/migrant-c…
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Foreign national households received £33.9bn in Universal Credit between March 2022 & Dec 2025. And the problem is only getting worse. £1.02bn was paid out in December 2025 alone - equivalent to £32.9m every day or £230.5m a week.
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EXC: Migrant households received £12bn in Universal Credit last year. That is an increase of 57% on the total paid out in 2023. £7.7bn of this went foreign national households with at least one person out of work.
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Between Q4 2019 and Q2 2026, the number of organisations registered to sponsor skilled workers grew from 28,734 to 126,104. That is a 338% increase.
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Just 29% of all migrants living in the UK came here primarily to work, with 43% moving here for family reasons. Just 12% of MENA migrants had work as their main reason for migrating to our country.
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If you claim asylum in Britain, you are here for life. The Home Office either waves through your initial application, or the immigration tribunal upholds your appeal. Even if you exhaust all appeals - you will more than likely never be removed.
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The Swedish government is looking to offer foreign-born individuals a cash incentive to revoke their Swedish citizenship.
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Settlement grants are at record highs, storing up huge pressures on the welfare state and social housing. The Home Secretary has failed to act, too scared of left-wing backbenchers, and it will be the British public forced to pick up the tab.
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Larger boats, different routes. The people smugglers are changing their tactics whilst the Home Office does nothing to clamp down on pull factors. The crisis ends when Britain has a deterrent.
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The government must publish the number of visas that every business and university has awarded. The system works for them, whilst the rest of us lose. Individual organisations responsible for mass migration & the transformation of our society must not be immune from scrutiny.
We have to rebalance rights and responsibilities when it comes to immigration, argues Rob Bates thecritic.co.uk/follow-the-m…
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664,667 settlement grants between 2021 and 2025. Just 20% went to people on work visas. Over half went to family members and dependants. Indefinite Leave to Remain is a disaster for Britain, imposing huge fiscal and social costs.
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An Eritrean monster rapes a woman, denies it thus forcing her to relive the ordeal during the trial. Rather than being deported, he will be “monitored by specialist officers”. @connor_naismith - will you call for the government to release the migrant crime data?
'Predatory' Eritrean migrant jailed for eight years after raping and strangling woman in Crewe gbnews.com/news/cheshire-new…
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No credible analysis would attempt to re-characterise migration figures as per the below. This is the woeful quality of output that some in the media have resorted to in an effort to downplay the salience of migration.
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There has been a surge in study visas being used simply as a route for long-term migration to Britain. 64% of those arriving as students in 2022 remained in the country after 3 years. Yet there are some bloggers who do not include students in "basic net migration" figures...
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A Romanian illegal migrant has been jailed after murdering his roommate. He had previously been convicted of murder in his home country. How was this man allowed into Britain?
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