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Britain is turning into a hotel for the world's criminals
Is Britain becoming a hotel for the world's criminals? New analysis by the Conservative Party has revealed that illegal immigrants who cross the Channel in small boats are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen.
Although the rate at which foreign nationals are sent to prison is only slightly higher than that for British nationals, the rate at which some nationalities are imprisoned is much higher. That includes nationalities which are among the largest groups of small boat arrivals, such as Afghans, Albanians, and Iranians.
Some 3.4 per cent of small boat arrivals could go to prison, according to the research, which is 24 times higher than British nationals and 18 times higher than for all migrants. Not only is our asylum system being abused to allow foreign criminals to enter, it is being dominated by those groups of foreign nationals most likely to commit crime.
That means that around 700 of the 20,000 small boat arrivals this year could go to prison. As there is more crime than is ever detected or solved, and as many successfully prosecuted crimes do not result in a custodial sentence, the actual number of small boat migrants who commit a crime will be even higher than that.
The Afghan double-murderer and drug dealer Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was able to conceal his prior crimes when he entered Britain on a small boat, and his assaults on people in Britain, including threatening school children, only came to light after he murdered 21-year-old aspiring Royal Marine Thomas Roberts.
Among some nationalities, the rates are even higher. Based on prison data from March, 12 per cent of all people with Somali passports in Britain are in jail.
This is only the latest data analysis to show the over-representation of some migrant groups when it comes to serious crime. Prior analysis by the Centre for Migration Control has found that foreign nationals accounted for over a quarter of sexual assaults on women that are successfully prosecuted. The top ten nationalities for sexual assault of a woman included Iranians and Afghans, who are over-represented among small boat arrivals.
The recent national audit of group-based child sex abuse by Baroness Casey also revealed a link between illegal immigration and the rape gangs. The Prime Minister has spoken of his personal commitment to halving violence against women and girls, but Labour's current commitment to a broken asylum system means allowing more people to come here who will be a danger to them.
The Home Office has disputed the Conservative analysis, pointing out that those arriving on the small boats are disproportionately young and male, the group which commits the most crime in society regardless of nationality.
That may be true, but the over-representation is so high that this cannot explain it entirely and is a tacit admission that small boat migrants are likely to be more criminals than the general population. Nor is it much comfort to most people, who are still being asked to pay their taxes to put up illegal immigrants in hotels near them, that the Home Office admits such groups are a potential danger.
