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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.
• 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.
• Report into asylum seeker guilty of murder will not be released.
• 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 residents of seaside hotel that houses asylum seekers.
• Five years, 24 court appearances, 20 judges and £85,000 in legal aid, deports a Somalian rapist where he will be given a hotel, armed guards and therapy paid for by the UK government.
• ISIS fanatic who snuck into Britain illegally is given UK citizenship despite security service terror threat warning.
• Grooming gang ringleader is living in Britain nearly nine years after he was meant to have been deported to Pakistan.
• Hotels are a short term measure to house illegal immigrants(2014).
• Spent £36million on private boats to pick up illegal immigrants in the Channel.
• Migrants dodge deportation from the UK by swapping rooms in taxpayer-funded hotels.
• Asylum seekers will be held at historic Dambusters Royal Air Force base as Lincolnshire Council bosses lose High Court fight against the government.
• The Clapham chemical attack suspect was a "good Muslim" despite claiming he had converted to Christianity to claim asylum in the UK.
• The Clapham chemical attack suspect who was granted asylum was not eligible for asylum.
• Forty asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge are converting to Christianity amid growing fears that migrants are claiming to have changed their religion in order to stay in the country.

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