Only three percent of the UK’s illegal boat migrants – 1,297 people out of 35,000 (with the latter figure based on an estimated number of annual crossings) – will be removed from the country once the “Conservative” Party’s Illegal Migration Act comes into force in January next year, according to a report published this week.
The Act states that illegal migrants may only be removed to one of a number of “safe countr[ies]” in which their “life and liberty” are not threatened, including the 27 European Union Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, or Albania, among others.
Yet, the vast majority of those arriving in the UK by boat are from countries considered unsafe, such as Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, and bizarrely India, meaning they cannot be removed and will be “stuck in a permanent limbo,” without the government able to do anything about it while costing up to £9.6bn ($11.5 billion) over the next three years.
British taxpayers are currently paying a staggering $10 million per day to house illegal migrants, with that figure destined to increase as more migrants arrive.