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• Palestinian citizen of Israel granted asylum in the UK because he believes that Israel is governed by an apartheid regime.
• Albanian robber can remain in the UK despite lying about his nationality and criminal past because it would in breach of his human rights.
• The proportion of burglaries resulting in a charge fell to 3.9% in 2022.
• Faulty £71million IT system causes immigration errors.
• In a case where £3billion in Bitcoin was seized, half of the proceeds will be given to the Home Office and the other half to the Metropolitan Police.
• Home Office will be unable to move asylum seekers from hotels according to National Audit Office.
• Foreign prisoners to get £1,500 and early release if they agree to be deported.
• Refugees are offered interested free loans.
• Iranian man who raped his lodger can not be deported because he may be persecuted in his homeland for being a convicted rapist.
• Asylum seekers are taken on shopping trips to keep them entertained after outbreaks of violence at Royal Air Force base immigration centre.
• Rwanda plan to cost UK £1.8m for each asylum seeker.
• Child asylum seekers in UK made to play game about who gets foster care places.
• Independent immigration watchdog called UK border protection "neither effective nor efficient" in a report that went unpublished by the government for nine months.
• Illegal migrants can claim UK asylum for as little as £2,600.
• Over £5,000 was spent on legal aid for Abdul Edezi, the Clapham chemical attacker, who was convicted of two sexual assault charges in 2018 in Newcastle.
• Introduced £31million package to help protect the democratic processes after MPs were threatened with violence over parliamentary bill on a ceasefire for the Israeli Gaza war.
• Britain facing £100bn tax jump as immigration surge stretches public finances, Institute of Fiscal Studies warns.
• One in four foreign care workers abuse UK visa rules.
• More than £117m will be spent to protect mosques, Muslim schools and community centres in the UK from hate attacks.
• Issued 275 visas to a care home that did not exist and 1,234 to a company that stated it had only four staff when given a license to operate.
• 1.3% of people who arrived by small boat from 2018 to June 2023 were returned from the UK.
• Pays for 16,000 homes for asylum seekers despite housing shortage.
• Home Office contractors are offering five year guaranteed full rent deals to take over management of properties for asylum seekers.
• More than 400 British ISIS jihadis have already returned to UK from warzones.
• Man flies to UK without ticket or passport arriving at Heathrow Airport and is allowed to walk free out of the airport to then fail to turn up to a court summons several weeks later.
• Asylum seekers will be coached, often by legal representatives.
• Some asylum applicants will arrive with criminal convictions, including sexual offences, but this does not automatically disbar them from entry.
• Employee gave stolen ID to Pakistani man that allowed him to stay in the UK illegally for 20 years.
• Gave asylum to Russian spies who then leaked top secret information at GCHQ and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
• 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.
• Asylum backlog at over 120,000 despite record number of refugees granted protection.
• 62,336 people were granted refugee status or other protection following an asylum claim in 2023.
• Grants leave to remain for individual with £16153/month in life long 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.
• Report into asylum seeker guilty of murder will not be released.
• Social media influencers in countries that account for a large amount of illegal migration to the UK will be offered thousands of pounds to publicise new immigration laws.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ukrainian VISA schemes extended by 18months despite the Western part of Ukraine considered safe.
• 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 in order to stay in the country.
• Donated £235million to Migrant Help over 10 years to provide refugees with advice on asylum claims.
• A violent offender who went on to kill three people in a terrorist attack had wrongly been granted five years humanitarian leave to remain by the Home Office.
• Accused 35,000 students of cheating at an English test where an independent body found that 97% of results were suspicious.

Child Rape Gangs

• Almost 19,000 children identified as sexual exploitation victims in England in one year.
• Grooming gang ringleader is living in Britain nearly nine years after he was meant to have been deported to Pakistan.
• In its Group-based Child Sexual explotation report, it didn't investigate grooming gangs, instead it relied on earlier reports using data predating the cover-up revelation.
• Asians are 11.5 times more likely to engage in group child sexual exploitation than Whites.
• 35% of group based child sexual exploitation perpetrators were White, with 11% being British.
• 28% of group based child sexual exploitation perpetrators were of Asian and Middle Eastern descent.
• 16% of group based child sexual exploitation perpetrators were Black.
• 75% of known group based child sexual exploitation gangs were Asian.
• Asians are 4.2x more likely to engage in grooming gang crimes and 2.13x more likely to engage in all forms of child sexual exploitation than Whites.
• Blacks are 11.8x more likely to engage in grooming gang crimes and 4x more likely to engage in all forms of child sexual exploitation than Whites.
• 1 in 2200 Muslims (aged 16+) being arrested for crimes involving the group sexual exploitation of children, 92.7x more likely than the rest of the population.
• 1 in 1700 Pakistanis (aged 16+) being arrested for crimes involving the group sexual exploitation of children, 120x more likely than the rest of the population.
• A single police operation resulted in the arrest of 7% of the adult male Muslim population in Telford for gang-raping and trafficking children.

Whistleblowers

• The Home Office is dysfunctional, says ex-borders watchdog David Neal.
• The Home Office is hostile to those who speak up internally.
• There is minimal effort from the state to stop illegal immigration.
• The Home Office has failed to engage in the realities of the economic and social costs of migration.
• There are posters dedicated to Windrush, race and LGBT issues everywhere.
• Civil servants wander around with lanyards plastered with rainbow flags and other political causes.

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