Migration Watch UK
May 01, 2024
Migration Watch UK has released a paper titled "Is immigration a threat to UK security?" The paper examines the impact of immigration on the UK's security and crime landscape, focusing on the recent high inflows of migrants from Africa and the Middle East seeking asylum in Europe.
The paper examines the inherent risks in accepting asylum seekers, and ultimately affording them refuge, despite it being impossible to check their identity and background satisfactorily because they have no passport or other identity documents, which have either been deliberately destroyed or taken by the criminal traffickers. The vast majority of those crossing the Channel illegally are young men.
Key findings include:
Commenting, Migration Watch UK Chairman Alp Mehmet said:
Our inability to check the identity and background of asylum seekers who have made their way here illegally means that potential terrorists and other criminals are always likely to slip through the net. Time and again over recent years we have seen the horrific consequences of letting in people we can’t properly vet or because we are unable to remove them. Abdul Ezedi and Ahmed Ali Alid are the most recent egregious examples. Meanwhile, uncontrolled mass immigration eventually leads to the sort of security challenges that we have witnessed on our streets in recent months. It is an issue that our politicians have ignored for too long. It is time they woke up to the threat.