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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.^[1]
Civil servants at scrutiny meeting unable to answer any questions about deportations.^[2]
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.^[3]
72% of Somali's live in social housing.^[4]
Research has found that group-based CSE offenders are most commonly White, citing a study from 2011, rather than using data available in the report it was published in.^[5]
Almost 80% of people held in UK immigration detention centres in 2022 were released into the community rather than deported.^[6]
One in four students from India and Bangladesh drop out of university, with many not paying fees.^[7]
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.^[8]
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.^[9]
Failed to deport asylum seeker who grew 600 marijuana plants because it would breach his human rights.^[2]