Labour's 'amnesty' for illegals will add up to 44,000 people to Britain's welfare bill, a government assessment reveals.
Of 63,053 people previously earmarked for deportation, as many as 70 per cent will now be allowed to stay in Britain with 'full access' to the welfare system. This could hit taxpayers with £17.8billion in extra costs over the migrants' lifetimes, critics have warned.
The previous Conservative government passed a law banning arrivals on small boats from claiming asylum. It introduced a 'Duty to Remove', marking them for deportation either to Rwanda or their home country.
Last month, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced she was repealing the measures and said this would save £7billion.
She has now been accused of 'hiding' the true cost of the measures after Home Office documents show that a vast majority of the claimants could end up in the UK's benefits system.
linkMore evidence, if more were necessary, that shows this government are out of their depth.
Starmer - Prime Minister.
Rayner - Deputy Prime Minister.
Cooper - Home Secretary.
Lammy - Foreign Secretary.
Milliband - Energy Secretary.
Mahmood - Lord Chancellor etc etc...
The list goes on and on, never in my lifetime have we had a more embarrassing and incompetent bunch of clueless half-wits running this country. God help us.
Its ALWAYS easy to tear Daily Mail articles to pieces because they are usually so full of lies, missinformation, assumptions and propoganda.
FIrstly, lets look at the headline "Labour amnesty MAY add 40,000 illegals to welfare bill" and "COULD cost taxpayer £18 Bn.
Now lets look at the article itself "Labour's 'amnesty' for illegal migrants WILL add up to 44,000 people to Britain's welfare bill" and "This COULD hit taxpayers with a £17.8billion in extra costs over the migrants' lifetimes"
The entire article is full of "MAY's" and "COULD's" - its typical Daily Mail tripe, mostly all guess work dressed up to feed the Gammons.
Now lets look at the two massive lies (1) This paragraph here "The previous Conservative government passed a law banning arrivals on small boats from claiming asylum. It introduced a Duty to Remove, marking them for deportation either to Rwanda or their home country".
Firstly, to bar or ban arrivals on small boats from claiming Asylum would be a breech of international law, and a breech of treaties that the UK is a signatory of, so this is plain and simply a lie.
Secondly, the previous government were UNABLE to send any illegal immigrants or asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, Syria and several other countries, and this government also cannot send them back, therefore the line "Duty to remove" is a complete nonsense.
Rwanda ? - what percentage of Asylum Seekers were the last government hoping to send to Rwanda, it was either 1 or 2 percent, leaving 98% still here, and many of those 98% unable to be sent back to their home country.
Jenrick talks out of his arse, he knows that HIS government failed, he also knows that only a tiny fraction would ever have been sent to Rwanda, he also knows that many illegals / asylum seekers cannot be sent back to their home country, and both he and his party had no answers, no solutions, and did nothing.
Since the end of Freedom Of Movement, further exacerbated by Covid, this country has imported THOUSANDS of workers, mainly from West Africa to work in the care sector. Asylum seekers and illegal migrants are not allowed to work in this country, yet I personally know of asylum seekers with degrees who could work in pharmacies or hospitals.
Amongst the asylum seekers are doctors, nurses, people who would be glad to take up jobs in the care sector, hospitallity, factory work, in agriculture or cleaning hospitals.
An amnesty or a partial amnesty offers a genuine solution to a real problem that the last government could not solve, and it could provide some sectors of our economy with much needed labour.
No one knows what the government has in mind, it could be a programme involving a route to citizenship, involving work, good behaviour and signing up to "good citizenship programmes" including learning about the British way of life, language, involvement in the community etc.
