The Home Office in the United Kingdom has revealed the high rate of unemployment among illegal immigrants granted residency under human rights laws, alongside the substantial cost to the British taxpayer.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: More than three-quarters of all illegal immigrants allowed to stay in the United Kingdom under human rights law are unemployed, according to new data. 📰 DETAIL: According to data from Britain’s Home Office, roughly equivalent to the United States Department of Homeland Security, 76 percent of illegal migrants granted the right to stay in the country under human rights laws are unemployed. The data was revealed in documents published alongside the Immigration and Asylum Bill, the British government’s flagship immigration legislation. The documents also revealed that each asylum seeker costs the British taxpayer £18,700 (~$25,000). This cost includes support, accommodation, processing, and appeal expenses. The analysis from the Home Office revealed that 83 percent of claims under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), an international human rights treaty codified into British law via the Human Rights Act, were successful. The analysis also revealed that over half (54 percent) of rejected human rights claims were overturned on appeal. Article 8 under ECHR guarantees the right to respect for “an individual’s private life, family life, home, and correspondence” and is often used by migrants, including criminals, to avoid deportation because they have relations in Britain. 🎯 IMPACT: This means that the 11,885 boat migrants who have illegally entered the United Kingdom so far this year have cost the British taxpayer at least £222 million (~$297m). As the Immigration and Asylum Bill heads to Parliament, this data is likely to feature heavily in debates among British lawmakers. 📺 FLASHBACK: The recent report from the Home Office compounds the growing number of reports highlighting the vast economic burden of illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom. In June, data from the Home Office revealed that the decision to grant 34,400 migrants residency in Britain is projected to cost approximately $6.7 billion. Earlier the same month, it was also reported that out of the 412,191 illegal immigrants currently in the country, approximately half (201,926) cannot be deported due to pending human rights claims. |
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