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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump has demolished the liberal myth. Migrants shouldn't be treated equally
Sometimes the best policies are the ones that produce the shrillest wails from the Left. Such may be the case with Trump's latest travel ban, which by rights should spark serious soul-searching in Britain. Overnight, the President announced restrictions on the citizens of 12 countries. This was a response to the recent terror attack on Boulder, Colorado, in which an Egyptian national, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is alleged to have thrown firebombs and sprayed burning petrol at a Jewish vigil on Sunday in support of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Although Egypt is not on the list, Homeland Security officials said Mr Soliman was in the country illegally, having overstayed a tourist visa, but that he had applied for asylum in September 2022. So far, so Trumpian. (He took similar measures during his first term, after all, and they were repealed by Joe Biden who called them 'a stain on our national conscience'.) But then came the kicker. 'We will not let what happened in Europe happen in America,' Trump said. Ouch. If the months of Trump 2.0 have so far shifted the Overton window across the West, allowing even the likes of Sir Keir Starmer to contemplate – at least rhetorically – tackling immigration, then such a travel ban should be welcomed on these shores as well. Already, the usual suspects are accusing Trump of being 'racist'. But a glance at the range of countries on the list shows that this is not a question of race, or even religion. Rather, it is a question of homeland security, and that holds a stark lesson for Britain. A few months back, official data revealed that though foreigners comprise just 15 per cent of the population of our country, they commit 41 per cent of all crime and up to a quarter of sex crimes. In the first nine months of 2024, almost 14 per cent of grooming suspects were Pakistani, five times their share of the population. Two nationalities – Afghans and Eritreans – were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens, according to the data. Overall, foreign nationals were 71 per cent more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions. Based on convictions per 10,000 of the population, Afghans with 77 convictions topped the table with a rate of 59 per 10,000, 22.3 times that of Britons. They were followed by Eritreans, who accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population. In March 2025, data from the Ministry of Justice revealed that foreigners, who claim £1 billion a month in benefits, were also responsible for large proportions of violence, robbery, fraud and drug offences, between 2021 and 2023. There was no data for terrorism offences or acts of anti-Semitism. But does anybody want to hazard a guess? Which brings us to a fundamental question. Why? Why does Britain need to allow the criminals of the world to come to our shores to abuse women and girls, run criminal enterprises, foster terrorism and anti-Semitism, and claim benefits in the process? Obviously not all foreigners from these countries behave in this way. But facts aren't racist. Large numbers are pulling down our pants, spanking our buttocks and pulling them up again. In fact, the problem is not one of race but one of politics and culture. In my new book, Never Again? How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself, which is coming out at the end of September, I look at groundbreaking research published in April by cognitive scientists Scott Barry Kaufman and Craig Neumann. They found that 'citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being' than those living under autocratic regimes. Based on a study of 200,000 people from 75 countries, people living under autocracies were found to be much more likely to exhibit the 'Dark Triad' of negative personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. In democracies, by contrast, more people displayed the 'Light Triad' of humanism, faith in humanity and 'Kantianism', or treating people with dignity in their own right rather than viewing them as a means to an end. Obviously, this is not related to race. Russians are hardly black, but they hardly live in a democracy either. It is a case of cognitive development. The problem occurs when, in an age of global travel, 'Dark Triad' migrants who grew up in despotic regimes encounter gullible 'Light Triad' officials in the democracies, whose empathies are easily played upon. That is why we find British judges ruling that an Albanian convict should avoid deportation because his son had an aversion to foreign chicken nuggets, a Pakistani drug dealer could stay so he could teach his son about Islam, and a paedophile of the same nationality should not be sent home since it would be 'unduly harsh' on his own children. These real-life cases, reported by the Telegraph, provide a clear collision of the 'Dark Triad' traits in the criminals and the 'Light Triad' tendencies in the judges. It is a chemical reaction waiting to happen, and the vast majority of the population, wherever they are born, are suffering the consequences. In other words, we are being taken for fools. No foreign criminal has a God-given right to set up home in Britain just because he fancies it. This is our home, and although we are delighted to welcome strangers, that generosity should be withdrawn from those who nick our television and threaten our children – even if their own happen to like the chicken nuggets in our fridge. Trump has now thrown down the gauntlet. What is the British Government going to do to set our own house in order? Will it take an anti-Semitic outrage like the firebombing in Colorado before the Prime Minister takes action? Will he take action even then? Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Powys County Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Powys County Times
Eritreans now most common nationality of migrants crossing Channel
Eritreans have become the most common nationality of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel, new figures show. Some 1,291 arrivals in the first three months of 2025 were from the East African country, 20% of the 6,420 whose nationality was known. It is the first time Eritrea has accounted for the largest number of people making the journey per quarter. The figure is up from 13% in October-December 2024 and 8% in July-September. In both of those quarters Afghan was the most common nationality. It comes as 825 migrants arrived in the UK on Wednesday after crossing the Channel, the highest number on a single day so far this year. The cumulative number of arrivals by small boats in 2025 now stands at a provisional total of 13,573, 37% higher than at the same point last year. The latest data of the nationality of migrants has been published by the Home Office. It shows that Afghan nationals made up the second largest group of arrivals in January to March of this year, accounting for 13% of the total, compared with 20% for Eritrea. This was followed by people from Sudan (12%), Vietnam (8%) and Iran (8%). The rise in Eritrean migrants is the most recent example of a change in the mix of nationalities making the journey in small boats. Vietnamese was the most common nationality in both January to March and April to June 2024, accounting for 20% and 15% of arrivals respectively. In response, the then Conservative government signed an agreement with Vietnam to step up efforts to discourage illegal travel to the UK. The two countries committed to develop a joint action plan to tackle human trafficking, as well as increase intelligence-sharing and raise awareness of legal routes for migration. The proportion of arrivals from Vietnam subsequently fell to 8% in July-September and 4% in October-December, though it rose to 8% in January-March this year. Following a spike in summer 2022 in the number of Albanians arriving in the UK on small boats, the governments of both countries struck an agreement to work together to prevent people from making the journey. This included placing UK Border Force staff in Tirana airport in the capital of Albania, an exchange of senior police officers and the creation of a joint migration task force. Albanian nationals accounted for 28% of arrivals in 2022 but only 3% in 2023 and 2% in 2024. The latest figures on Channel crossings also show that nearly all the 6,420 migrants arriving in the first three months of this year whose nationality was known went on to make a claim for asylum (6,369 or 99%). Since the start of 2018, when data on Channel crossings was first recorded, 94% of migrants arriving in the UK this way have claimed asylum, or 145,834 out of 154,354 people. Of the 145,834 to claim asylum, 59% (86,646) have received a decision on their claim, and 39% (56,605) have been granted asylum or some other protection status.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Eritreans now most common nationality of migrants crossing Channel
Eritreans have become the most common nationality of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel, new figures show. Some 1,291 arrivals in the first three months of 2025 were from the East African country, 20% of the 6,420 whose nationality was known. It is the first time Eritrea has accounted for the largest number of people making the journey per quarter. The figure is up from 13% in October-December 2024 and 8% in July-September. In both of those quarters Afghan was the most common nationality. It comes as 825 migrants arrived in the UK on Wednesday after crossing the Channel, the highest number on a single day so far this year. The cumulative number of arrivals by small boats in 2025 now stands at a provisional total of 13,573, 37% higher than at the same point last year. The latest data of the nationality of migrants has been published by the Home Office. It shows that Afghan nationals made up the second largest group of arrivals in January to March of this year, accounting for 13% of the total, compared with 20% for Eritrea. This was followed by people from Sudan (12%), Vietnam (8%) and Iran (8%). The rise in Eritrean migrants is the most recent example of a change in the mix of nationalities making the journey in small boats. Vietnamese was the most common nationality in both January to March and April to June 2024, accounting for 20% and 15% of arrivals respectively. In response, the then Conservative government signed an agreement with Vietnam to step up efforts to discourage illegal travel to the UK. The two countries committed to develop a joint action plan to tackle human trafficking, as well as increase intelligence-sharing and raise awareness of legal routes for migration. The proportion of arrivals from Vietnam subsequently fell to 8% in July-September and 4% in October-December, though it rose to 8% in January-March this year. Following a spike in summer 2022 in the number of Albanians arriving in the UK on small boats, the governments of both countries struck an agreement to work together to prevent people from making the journey. This included placing UK Border Force staff in Tirana airport in the capital of Albania, an exchange of senior police officers and the creation of a joint migration task force. Albanian nationals accounted for 28% of arrivals in 2022 but only 3% in 2023 and 2% in 2024. The latest figures on Channel crossings also show that nearly all the 6,420 migrants arriving in the first three months of this year whose nationality was known went on to make a claim for asylum (6,369 or 99%). Since the start of 2018, when data on Channel crossings was first recorded, 94% of migrants arriving in the UK this way have claimed asylum, or 145,834 out of 154,354 people. Of the 145,834 to claim asylum, 59% (86,646) have received a decision on their claim, and 39% (56,605) have been granted asylum or some other protection status. Migrants arriving by boat across the Channel accounted a third of the total number of people claiming asylum in the UK in the year ending March 2025.
Spectator
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
What Pope Francis got wrong about illegal migration
Migrants have been pouring into the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa this month. Over 100 on Monday and 344 on Wednesday; the previous week 269 landed, and at the start of April more than 1,000 arrived in a 48-hour period. They are Eritreans, Ethiopians, Sudanese, Guineans, Moroccans, Syrians, Malaysians, Somalis and Senegalese but the three nationalities most heavily represented are Bangladeshis, Egyptians and Pakistanis. Most told their rescuers that they set out from Libya. So much for Giorgia Meloni's efforts to persuade Libya to work with her to stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean. Last year the Italian PM, supported by the EU, signed deals with Libya and Tunisia; in exchange for mountains of cash, there were promises to stop the small boats leaving for Lampedusa. Meloni was elected to power in September 2022 with a pledge to drastically reduce illegal immigration, but twelve months later, some 15,000 migrants landed on Lampedusa in a matter of days. Meloni is often held up as an example of a European leader who has cracked the migrant conundrum, but clearly she is still a work in progress.
The Star
24-04-2025
- Politics
- The Star
South Sudan hosts over 550,000 refugees, asylum-seekers: UN
JUBA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan hosts 552,333 refugees and asylum-seekers across 140,445 households, settled in 29 locations nationwide as of March, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said this includes 548,430 registered refugees and 3,903 asylum-seekers. The UNHCR said the majority of the refugees and asylum-seekers are from neighboring Sudan, which has faced a two-year conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023. "The vast majority -- 94.9 percent (520,815 individuals) -- are Sudanese refugees, followed by populations from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, and other nationalities," the UNHCR said in its latest report released in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. In response to the ongoing conflict in Sudan, the UNHCR said the South Sudanese government continues to grant prima facie refugee status to those fleeing the country. Among the refugees, 51 percent are women and 77 percent are women and children combined, according to the UN agency. It said the asylum-seeker population is smaller and has a distinct demographic profile, with Ethiopians comprising 35.8 percent and Eritreans 29.3 percent, followed by Burundians, Ugandans, and Congolese.
