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    Illegal Migrants: A correction

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    1. Mysterious_Music_677 on

      Well, well, well. I wonder how many people will see this correction compared to the actual article.

    2. socratic-meth on

      > Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.

      Total bollocks then, just like everything else they print,

    3. nauett on

      Bets that they knew full well those figures were wrong, but the correction will attract far less attention and the narrative is now out there

    5. corbynista2029 on

      7 days ago, the original [thread](https://redd.it/1i7mhu0) with title “One in 12 in London is an illegal immigrant” got 1.8k upvotes.

      In reality, they missed London’s population by 2 million and the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status. I wonder how many people who upvoted the article is unknowingly counted as an “illegal migrant”.

      We need to do something about the Telegraph/Daily Mail/GB News on this sub.

    6. FoodEnvironmental368 on

      Shock.

      Red top shit rag prints lies.

      Can’t wait till this cancer of a print media group dies

    7. GoingMenthol on

      For those who don’t want to open a link from The Sun

      >A 23 Jan article said that Thames Water figures ‘show’ that one in 12 Londoners are illegal migrants.

      >In fact the figures cover only 7 million people, not the full 9 million London population.

      >Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.

      Edit: [Wayback Machine link](https://web.archive.org/web/20250130105614/https://www.thesun.co.uk/clarifications/33054976/illegal-migrants-a-correction/) too

    9. lerpo on

      I’m sure the Sun has hidden that WELL beyond most people’s feeds.

      Curious, what is the actual number? Curious how wrong they were

    10. vengarlof on

      I mean, I totally agree that a lot less people will see this article compared with the original, but you have to appreciate the fact that they did publish a correction

    11. fatguy19 on

      There should be fines for spreading misinformation, would hopefully make them reconsider publishing bullshit

    12. baked-stonewater on

      They also don’t actually correct the number so they just leave it hanging as ‘we said 1 in 12’ it might be different.

    16. MurderMouse999 on

      This is just for legal purposes. The highly educated non inbred people who worship the sun rag who have seen the incorrect article have already solidified it into their knowledge bank. This correction won’t be ready by them or cared

    17. LOTDT on

      >A 23 Jan article said that Thames Water figures ‘show’ that one in 12 Londoners are illegal migrants.

      >In fact the figures cover only 7 million people, not the full 9 million London population.

      >Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.

      To save you giving them any clicks.

    18. Quinn-Helle on

      The complete lack of due diligence from them (and others that reported the same) is honestly shite.

      That having been said the additional details could completely skew the figures either which way.

      Would be good if our government was keeping tabs on this and remaining transparent with the taxpayer.

      That information should be pushed out.

      Again, the absence of information will cause misinformation to fester, like surrounding the Southport murders.

    20. LoccyDaBorg on

      I’ve always said, when a newspaper is compelled to print a retraction or correction, said retraction should be legally required to be on the same page as the original article and occupy the same amount of space as the original article. Let’s throw in a minimim font size as well to stop the “large white space with miniscule text factor”.

    21. DLRsFrontSeats on

      Lets see if the thousands of people that upvoted the previous article that was slopped into their feed bags will have anything to say about this correction

    24. According_Parfait680 on

      Well, well, well, a right wing shit rag feeds lies and bullshit about immigration to the frothing masses, who’d have thunk it?

    25. Luke_4686 on

      No doubt this was tucked away somewhere deep in the physical paper rather than the lie they ran as a major headline

    26. PuzzledFortune on

      The Sun should apologise for 54 years of misinformation about illegal migrants and many other things

    27. LeTreacs2 on

      I can’t read it unless I accept their cookies or pay to reject them.

      Bunch of cunts, that lot.

    28. ZavrepA on

      Funny how the initial article was about 3 pages long filled with figures and stats and the correction is a mere half-hearted paragraph.

      I’m a 4th generation ‘immigrant’ (if you _want_ to call me that 🙄) and I totally agree that immigration – especially the illegal kind – is absolutely out of control in the U.K!However, it’s also a fact that subsequent governments have used immigration based fear-mongering as a plaster for their economic failures. When your piss-poor management has driven the country into a deficit, immigration is the quick and easy way to bring in money, fund services and the welfare state all whilst providing a scapegoat for your poor work ethic. But, as we’ve now discovered, poorly managed immigration achieves the opposite and we are now in a worse condition than before all of this started.

      The only reason this pathetic tabloid issued this correction is because they were called out on their lies.