The facts are in: mass immigration has led to a rise in crime

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23-04-2025

For years we have had an institutional cover-up of the costs of immigration. The amount of serious and violent crime we have imported from low-skilled migration has been swept under the carpet.
From what I can only deduce is out of misplaced fear of harming social cohesion if the truth were to emerge, the public have had the wool pulled over their eyes. Officials have hidden behind the excuse of 'operational challenges' and 'disproportionate cost'.
But the dam is now breaking. The Home Office will publish crime data by nationality 'by the end of the year'. It should happen sooner, and it should be more thorough – breaking down visa and asylum status too. But it is a welcome step in the right direction.
This should have been put into the public domain long ago – as the US and Denmark have done. Over a year ago, I wrote a report with Neil O'Brien and Karl Williams setting out all the social and economic data we needed. I even tabled an amendment, backed by more than 40 colleagues, to the Crime and Policing Bill to mandate the publication of the volume and type of migrant crime. Plenty of other campaigners and parliamentarians have raised this issue, only to be met with a 'computer says no' response.
The Government has been forced, through freedom of information requests, to release indicative data. The preliminary findings are extremely concerning. For instance, Algerians appear 18 times more likely to be convicted of theft as British citizens. Congolese nationals appear to be 12 times more likely, and Somalians eight times more likely, to be convicted of a violent crime than UK citizens.
The initial data on sexual offences – which needs verifying further – is even more alarming. The data appears to show that Afghans and Eritreans are more than 20 times more likely to be convicted of sexual offences than British citizens. Overall, foreign nationals were 71 per cent more likely than Britons to be convicted for sex crimes.
It makes me sick to my core to think we are importing people into this country who are causing such terrible harm. We, rightly, talk a lot about protecting women and girls in Parliament. One of the biggest things the Government could do to protect them would be to reduce visas radically and to dramatically increase background checks for nationals from those countries – as well as deporting their failed asylum seekers. And do it now.
The full, verified Home Office data will give us the unvarnished truth: some nationalities are significantly more likely to commit crime than others.
As Kemi Badenoch has said, it shouldn't be controversial to state that not all cultures are equal. Freedom of Information requests thus far suggest 66 nationalities have a higher conviction rate per 10,000 than Britons. If we are to build an immigration system that protects the interests of the British public, we need to know which nationalities are higher and which are lower.
The data on migrant crime is not an academic exercise. It is a means to an end. Its purpose is to inform an immigration system that puts the safety of British people first. Coming to this country is a privilege, never a right. It should not be afforded to anyone likely to endanger our citizens.
I don't care if that ruffles Left-wing feathers. The public – and policymakers – need the truth. It will be hard for some to read. But I'll take a hard truth over a gentle lie every single time.
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