UK's Labour government removes illegal migrants at fastest pace since 2018

[pellinore]

Tory illegal Rwanda Plan: 3 people removed over three years at a cost of tens of millions of pounds per person. Labour legal plan:16.4 thousand removed over 6 months at no extra cost to the taxpayer. Proof that crime does not pay. (Except when you are profiting from it as the Tories did.)

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Labour government said on Thursday it had removed 16,400 illegal migrants since coming to power in July, marking the highest rate of such removals since 2018.

On taking office, Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped the previous Conservative government's scheme to send migrants who arrive illegally to Rwanda, instead setting up a Border Security Command to crack down on illegal migration - a huge political issue in Britain.

Under the new system, officials have focused on breaking up the people smuggling gangs that help migrants enter Britain via small boats and worked to detain and remove those living illegally in the country.

"Our message to those wanting to come here illegally is clear – you are wasting your money putting your trust in these vile gangs and will be returned swiftly," Starmer said in a statement.

UK's Labour government removes illegal migrants at fastest pace since 2018

Edited Thursday at 10:30 PM by pellinore

[Alchopwn]

And yet British Labour do nothing about Muslim Groomer Gangs, for fear of being "racist".  No, they'd rather take the Catholic Church route and pretend it isn't happening.  Absolutely shameful.  One of the few things I agree with Musk about.  

[stevewinn]

18 hours ago, pellinore said:

Tory illegal Rwanda Plan: 3 people removed over three years at a cost of tens of millions of pounds per person. Labour legal plan:16.4 thousand removed over 6 months at no extra cost to the taxpayer. Proof that crime does not pay. (Except when you are profiting from it as the Tories did.)

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Labour government said on Thursday it had removed 16,400 illegal migrants since coming to power in July, marking the highest rate of such removals since 2018.

On taking office, Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped the previous Conservative government's scheme to send migrants who arrive illegally to Rwanda, instead setting up a Border Security Command to crack down on illegal migration - a huge political issue in Britain.

Under the new system, officials have focused on breaking up the people smuggling gangs that help migrants enter Britain via small boats and worked to detain and remove those living illegally in the country.

"Our message to those wanting to come here illegally is clear – you are wasting your money putting your trust in these vile gangs and will be returned swiftly," Starmer said in a statement.

UK's Labour government removes illegal migrants at fastest pace since 2018

For clarity and to be factual.

Rwanda policy under the illegal immigration act is not illegal, as the poster states. - in fact it still remains in Law. but was cancelled by the new Labour Govt.

All deportations of illegals are welcomed.

since Labour was elected 4th July 2024.

23,303 illegals arrived by small boat.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/678119fc363ac763c8ede47d/10_Jan_2025_Small_boats_-_time_series.ods

Much more work to do. we'll start handing out recognition awards when the figures reach 80,000per year.

 

[pellinore]

8 hours ago, Alchopwn said:

And yet British Labour do nothing about Muslim Groomer Gangs, for fear of being "racist".  No, they'd rather take the Catholic Church route and pretend it isn't happening.  Absolutely shameful.  One of the few things I agree with Musk about.  

It was Tory govts which refused to implement the recommendations of the Jay Inquiry and the Casey Report. These took place a decade ago. You are getting your "facts" from Musk, like the rest of the sheep:

In Rotherham in 2014, a report from Professor Alexis Jay – who later chaired the national child abuse inquiry – found at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town over 15 years.

The next year, in 2015, an independent report from Baroness Louise Casey – who led a review into the standards and culture of the Metropolitan Police in 2023 – said Rotherham Council was “in denial” over the issue.

 FactCheck: what local and national inquiries into grooming gangs have there been? – Channel 4 News

Edited Friday at 10:06 PM by pellinore

[Alchopwn]

8 hours ago, pellinore said:

It was Tory govts which refused to implement the recommendations of the Jay Inquiry and the Casey Report. These took place a decade ago. You are getting your "facts" from Musk, like the rest of the sheep:

In Rotherham in 2014, a report from Professor Alexis Jay – who later chaired the national child abuse inquiry – found at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town over 15 years.

The next year, in 2015, an independent report from Baroness Louise Casey – who led a review into the standards and culture of the Metropolitan Police in 2023 – said Rotherham Council was “in denial” over the issue.

 FactCheck: what local and national inquiries into grooming gangs have there been? – Channel 4 News

I don't mind being wrong.  Thx for the info.

Edited Saturday at 06:44 AM by Alchopwn

[stevewinn]

21 hours ago, Alchopwn said:

And yet British Labour do nothing about Muslim Groomer Gangs, for fear of being "racist".  No, they'd rather take the Catholic Church route and pretend it isn't happening.  Absolutely shameful.  One of the few things I agree with Musk about.  

 

4 hours ago, Alchopwn said:

I don't mind being wrong.  Thx for the info.

You where somewhat not wrong in your original post.

The rape gangs happened in Labour controlled towns. It was under Labours Prime Minister Gordon Brown which its alleged a note was sent from the Home Office to all 43 Police forces in the UK to not get involved.

Labour Failed to launch an inquiry during their term in govt. instead the only inquires have happened under the Tory Govt. The author of the Jay report, is asking for her Report to be implemented in full. which hasnt happened. only partial because we dont want to upset certain section of Society. 

People only have to watch the victims and parents of the victims giving interviews. Like the Father who found out where his daughter was and went around to basically rescue her, and the Police where called and the Police didnt arrest the 5 Pakistani men who where with a lone white girl. no, the father was arrested. and the girl left with the 5 Pakistani men. 

Douglas Murray in the Spectator.

It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans discovered the British ‘grooming gang’ scandal, British politics has suddenly had to face up to something it has spent a quarter of a century trying to ignore. One would hope that the claim that thousands of underage girls had been gang-raped by thousands of men in cities across the country would be a subject of profound concern for our politicians. Who did this? Why? How can we help the victims and prevent any reoccurrence?

But no society asks questions to which it does not want an answer. The language used about this mass crime has been coyly euphemistic. Take ‘grooming’. Can you say that the girl in Oxford who was repeatedly drugged and raped by men who threatened to kill her and branded her buttocks with ‘M’ for ‘Mohammed’ was merely ‘groomed’?

And what of ‘Asian’? Did these towns see an outbreak of Japanese men prowling our cities for what former home secretary Jack Straw described as the ‘easy meat’ of white working-class girls? No such culprits have come to light. These obfuscating phrases were designed to cover up the fact that the perpetrators were almost all Muslim men of Pakistani origin and their victims almost all white working-class girls selected by their abusers because of their race.

A few brave politicians, such as Ann Cryer, the former Labour MP for Keighley, have spent years trying to bring attention to this scandal. She was rewarded with insults, opprobrium (‘Islamophobe’, ‘racist’) and even needed police protection. When Sarah Champion, shadow minister for women and equalities under Jeremy Corbyn, spoke out for victims in her constituency, ‘anti-racism’ charities claimed that in doing so she had caused an ‘increase in verbal and physical racist abuse’. In the end she had to resign from the shadow cabinet.

Andrew Norfolk of the Times spent years chasing the story and interviewing victims, as did some other journalists. But by and large the scandal was too grim for most of the media to pursue, mainly because it exposed an even deeper challenge. During decades in which our national credo was ‘diversity is our strength’, the rapist gangs suggested that diversity is in fact a mixed bag. It may bring some advantages, but it also brings people who have a 7th-century view of women and are willing to act on it.

Now, very late in the day, our impotent political and media classes have been bounced into responding, though they have done so in their usual way – firstly, by trying to shoot the messengers. From Keir Starmer suggesting that the outrage over the scandal is really about the ‘far right’, to MPs attacking Elon Musk, or columnists claiming that because Tommy Robinson campaigned on this issue he made it impossible for anyone else to mention it, these are the excuses public figures offer in the hope they will be excused for their pathetic response.........

Between 2008 and 2010, a nine-member gang of men in Rochdale abused 47 vulnerable girls as young as 13...........To date these men have appeared before more than 12 judges at three crown courts, immigration tribunals and the Court of Appeal. The British taxpayer has given them more than £550,000 to fund their challenges, though that is only part of the £2 million we have given to various members of the Rochdale rape gangs in their appeals against deportation.

One of Khan’s victims, who was a child when he raped her, happened to see him again in Asda in 2020. ‘I’ve never been so scared in all my life,’ she said. ‘I feel like my heart just stopped beating.’ Another victim described how, when she spotted one of her rapists in the local town centre, she wet herself in fear. Yet last September a judge at Sheffield Crown Court actually ordered a Rotherham rape-gang survivor to remove from her courtroom victim impact statement a demand for her abusers to be deported.

............How about some opprobrium or prosecutions of the people who oversaw all this, or at least some accountability? While leader of Telford council in 2016, Shaun Davies signed a letter to the then home secretary saying that ‘we do not feel at this time that a further inquiry is necessary’ into rape gangs in his town. He is now the Labour MP for Telford.

Shaun Wright, the Rotherham councillor responsible for children’s services from 2005 to 2010, went on to become South Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner.

In 2012, Helen Brayley claimed that ‘the current obsession with “Asian sex gangs” focuses too narrowly on one dimension to this crime, making the emergent profile of the “Pakistani groomer” misleading’. Her job title is now Deputy Director, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Operational Delivery, in the Home Office.
As for the police, in 2018 the West Mercia superintendent Tom Harding insisted that the figure of 1,000 girls abused in Telford was ‘sensationalised’. The independent review later found it plausible. He is now Director of Operational Standards at the College of Policing. The Telford inquiry heard that police ‘dropped cases like a hot potato’ in order to avoid being labelled racist.

Some MPs and journalists will doubtless start wittering on about how we can’t deport the perpetrators as long as Britain is a member of the European Convention on Human Rights. This too is pure diversion. Italy and France are signatories to the same unworkable convention, but when they need to act they just do so...
 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-real-justice-would-look-like-for-grooming-gang-victims/