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Britain has the most illegal migrants in Europe: How the country is lagging behind Continental neighbours in bid to tackle migrant crisis
The Daily Mail ^ | 27 Aug 2025 | RORY TINGLE

Posted on 08/28/2025 4:10:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Britain has the highest population of illegal migrants in Europe, according to the latest available estimates - as it lags behind European neighbours in its efforts to tackle the problem.

Nigel Farage yesterday vowed to deport as many as 600,000 people if he wins power after detaining them in 'large-scale raids' - an echo of the crackdown by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, on the Continent, countries like Sweden, Denmark and Germany are cracking down on migration by making it far harder to claim asylum, with notable results.

The latest statistics on the number of illegal migrants in the UK - quoted by the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory - give a range of between 594,000 and 745,000.

If the upper estimate was correct, this would be the highest population in Europe, followed by Germany (700,000 to 600,000), Spain (469,000 to 391,000) and Italy (458,000 with no lower estimate).

However, these figures - gathered by the Measuring Illegal Migration (Mirrem) project - are from 2017, meaning they are already significantly out of date and do not include recent small boat arrivals who have subsequently disappeared into the dark economy.

More than 170,000 people have arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel in dinghies since 2018, with only around three per cent returned since then and 2024, according to the Migration Observatory.

Around 30,000 were refused asylum and another 20,000 had their applications withdrawn, meaning many are likely to remain in the UK with no official status.

And given many illegal migrants have entered by other means than small boats - including by arriving on legal visas and then overstaying - this would inflate the total even higher.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: betrayedbygovernment; britain; europe; governmentbetrayal; invasion

1 posted on 08/28/2025 4:10:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re not tackling anything


2 posted on 08/28/2025 4:14:10 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

They’re encouraging it. Queer Starmer deserves to be drawn and quartered along with most of Parliament.


3 posted on 08/28/2025 4:27:36 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only way the Parliamentarians will do anything about it is if the legislature gets breached by some very violent men.


4 posted on 08/28/2025 4:45:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: HYPOCRACY

So glad I traveled extensively in UK, France, Belgium , Germany years ago when they were safe and charming. Not sure about Germany now, may still be OK, meeting friends of friends this weekend who live in Munich.


5 posted on 08/28/2025 4:50:49 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Brits need to sue George the evil one Soros then they need to use the money they win to send their illegals home.


6 posted on 08/28/2025 5:01:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (DEMOCRAT HELLHOLE CITIES HAD 60 YEARS TO DEAL WITH THEIR CRIMINAL PROBLEMS. Why didn't they?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They need to patrol their shoreline. May the Chunnel should be shut down, too.

Of course, that will never happen with the current leadetship.


7 posted on 08/28/2025 5:08:00 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator
Has "the Saxon began to hate" yet?

If not, "when"?

Or, is it now ... "if"?

8 posted on 08/28/2025 5:27:42 PM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Disambiguator

The chunnel doesn’t seem to be a big problem or atleast not the original problem. They really need to patrol the boats to spain, lampedusa IT, greece, and a few other places in the med.


9 posted on 08/28/2025 6:36:37 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: MinorityRepublican
Britain has the most illegal migrants

ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!! SAY IT!!!!


10 posted on 08/28/2025 7:55:21 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: stanne

No they’re not. You Tube is chock for of Brits posting the most dismal videos of the state of things over there and they’re BEGGING us to send our president to ‘’save us Trump!’’.

They haven’t the decency to refer to the man as the office and it’s occupant are meant to be addressed but this notion in their minds that they can get themselves into some hopelessly stupid situation and it’s “Call the Yanks!’’.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 11:05:01 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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