Martin Daubney has put a challenge to Labour after the Home Office claimed the Government had deported 60,000 illegal migrants over the past 18 months.
The Home Office said the statistics released today “show real progress as we restore order and control to our borders”, with Alex Norris reiterating the claim on GB News this morning.
The Home Office said the statistics released today “show real progress as we restore order and control to our borders”.
It added: “We have removed nearly 60,000 illegal migrants. Numbers in asylum hotels are down. Law enforcement action against people smugglers is at record levels and we are bearing down on the asylum backlog.”
But Martin has demanded proof, asking: “”If there genuinely are mass deportations, as the Government would have us believe, then where on earth is the footage?”
When Labour surpassed the 19,000 mark for deportations this time last year, Labour released images of illegal migrants and foreign offenders being deported from the UK in an unprecedented move.
The move was part of a Government push to try to show it was clamping down on those with no right to live or work in Britain.
However, only a tiny fraction of the thousands of deportations include those who crossed the English Channel illegally on small boats.
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The video, which was about two-and-a-half minutes long, showed multiple foreign nationals, with some in restraints, being led onto a specially chartered aircraft.
At the time, the People’s Channel was informed roughly one in 10 of those deported were “non compliant” and required some form of restraint.
But now, Martin has demanded new footage to prove they are really deporting as many as they claim.
“Indeed, it’s true that the number of migrants and hotels is at its lowest level in 18 months, but what they haven’t made clear is that the numbers are merely back to the same levels that Labour inherited,” he started.
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“And the real question remains where are those migrants who are no longer in hotels? Well, there’s a simple answer. Many of them are in HMOs or houses or military barracks in a street near you…
“Indeed, 68,000 are now privately rented flats and houses across the country, paid for by you, the British taxpayer.
Furious, he continued: “Now, indeed, it’s also true that 60,000 illegal migrants left the UK in the last 18 months. But the Government didn’t mention that you, the British taxpayer, were paying many of them up to £3,000 ahead to clear off home.”
“But perhaps most importantly of all, of the 41,000 small boat migrants who illegally entered the country last year, only six per cent of them were ever removed and indeed just four per cent since 2018.
“Now, the top five small boat migrant nationalities are from Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iran and Eritrea. Only 206 were ever deported. Now, let’s be very, very clear about this.
“These top small boat migrants nationalities are hugely overrepresented in sex offences, with Afghans and Sudanese at the very top of that list.
“These nationalities are also hugely overrepresented in violent crime, with Somalis, Afghans and Eritreans in the top offenders too.
“In other words, the people who really ought to be deported, people illegally crossing the Channel from countries overrepresented in criminality are barely being deported at all. It’s really very, very simple.
“If there genuinely are mass deportations, as the Government would have us believe, then where on earth is the footage?” he demanded.