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• Officials have admitted they do not know the whereabouts of more than 17,000 asylum seekers whose claims have been discontinued.
• Civil servants at scrutiny meeting unable to answer any questions about deportations.
• Home Office grants leave to remain for individual with £16153/month in medical costs because his home country would not offer him the same treatment.
• 72% of Somali's live in social housing.
• Research has found that group-based child sex offenders are most commonly white, citing a study from 2011, rather than using data available in the report it was published in.
• Almost 80% of people held in UK immigration detention centres in 2022 were released into the community rather than deported.
• One in four students from India and Bangladesh drop out of university, with many not paying fees.
• Spouse visas issued by the Home Office have more than doubled in a year as MPs warned the lax rules are being exploited to bring in young women from India and Pakistan for arranged marriages.
• Almost 4000 asylum seekers, some over 30 years old, caught pretending to be children given the right to additional financial help and housing with a host family.
• Failed to deport asylum seeker who grew 600 marijuana plants because it would breach his human rights.
• Insider says there is minimal effort from the state to stop illegal immigration.
• Insider says the Home Office has failed to engage in the realities of the economic and social costs of migration.
• Insider says there are posters dedicated to Windrush, race and LGBT issues everywhere.
• Insider says civil servants wander around with lanyards plastered with rainbow flags and other political causes.
• Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft does not believe that civil servants should accept government policy on all issues.
• Only 700 of the original 5,000 people earmarked for deportation are in "regular contact" with the Home Office.
• Staff are given both male and female security passes so they can change which gender they identify as from day to day.
• Anyone sentenced to more than two years in prison was not eligible for asylum. In 2022, this was decreased to one year.
• It would be unsafe to return Turkish nationals to their place of birth.
• Granted asylum to a convicted sex offender who then attacked people with corrosive liquid and then tried to run them over in a vehicle.
• Asks for emergency £2.6bn after asylum seeker hotels overspend.
• A mass knife brawl at Bournemouth College campus involving two rival gangs of Afghan and Romanian people contains resident of seaside hotel that houses asylum seekers.

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