Sir Keir Starmer says 24,000 people who have ‘no right to be here’ have been returned under Labour
https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-says-24000-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-here-have-been-returned-under-labour-13339113
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To put that in perspective the Tories sent about 300 people to Rwanda at a cost of £700m.
edit: apparently it was £300m and only 4 were sent and in that time 22 Rwandans were granted asylum here so we paid £300m to recieve 18 Rwandans.
Im sure the media will spin it into something negative
This seems like positive news, I’m not sure that’s allowed here…
It’ll be interesting to see what the annual immigration figure is in comparison.
That’s great! Please provide an irrefutable docket of information for the public so that we can spread and share it. This is nothing but good news for both sides of the political spectrum if true. It’s the biggest talking point in our country second to none.
The important thing to know here is this happens all the time.
Most people returned are people from India, Brazil, Albania and Romania.
They are primarily not people arriving by boats. (Though some Albanians may have)
Yes. But isn’t there some information saying something like 4000 crossed the channel in the last few weeks
The proposed offshore processing for many (not the few hundred that Rwanda was), the restrictions on illegal work options, these returns. I actually think Labour are making progress here.
That’s fine, but prediction is still of 350,000 net migration for 2025
I can think of one person with no right to be where he is.
Oh well that only leaves another 250,000 in London and a few other million elsewhere and it’s job done
Honestly a win for Labour they should be shouting this from the roof tops
How odd he didn’t name the countries??
Is Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Sudan on that list of those deported???
That’s cool. A January report suggests that nearly 600,000 illegal migrants are in London. So, it’s not even a drop in the bucket.
This is like a fire fighter blowing out a candle while a building burns around him and then expecting to be praised
Who would have thought that being a boring politician getting on with the job of actually deporting people, rather than spaffing £300 million on a scheme to deport 4 people would actually start producing some results?
No doubt there will be the people on here complaining that not everyone coming here has been deported immediately with no questions asked, and any small boats in the channel not under constant heavy gunfire from a Royal Navy frigate is unacceptable. But every turnaround has to start somewhere.
It’s definitely progress but we need to scrutinise what “no right to be here means” because they also let around 600,000 with “the right to be here” stay.
what about the other 725000 who crossed the channel?
Cant wait till they find out that it won’t be enough. And it will never be enough.
They are only returning the easy cases to countries that will take them back.
Essentially they’re co finally skimming those off the top of the pile while having no idea what to do with the hard cases:
You can’t send them back where they came from as it’s too dangerous.
You can’t send them to a third country because they cancelled the Rwanda plan.
The only choice that remains, by conservation of mass, is to let them stay here.
Labour has an open borders policy for anyone from a dangerous country which could amount to hundreds of millions of people.
But they don’t want that to be the headline.
So only 6,300 were enforced returns (the rest voluntarily left)
And since July 2024 there have been **29,174** ([I just checked the government’s official data](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats)) illegal migrant arrivals on boats.
So we’re way behind the numbers arriving, just looking at boat migrants alone (so excluding visa over stayers) we’re still +5,000 since the last GE
It’s a somewhat decent start. Needs to be much more though. Much, much more. Tired of middle aged men coming here solo, faking that they’re gay when in reality they probably feel shame for saying that because they actually want gay people dead as per their culture or religious beliefs.
Starmer is just a compulsive liar! It’s that simple.
The boats need stopping & so do the benefits & incentives for them to come here.
The country is knackered.
Hard to assess the extent this represents a win, as this quotation is vague and fails to distinguish between the types of removals it includes.
For example what proportion of the 24,000 people who came to the country by illegal channels (i.e. small boats) as fake refugees from safe third countries and abused our asylum system vs the 24,000 who came on visas and overstayed a little bit and were always relatively easy to remove. In other words, to what extent do these numbers reflect radical changes in how Tories approached this vs Labour…
Otherwise making a comparison to Rwanda is silly because that policy was specifically about small boat crossings.
Is there any justifiable reason for the Tory party to exist anymore? Who’s political needs do they service? Labour have outflanked them on the right on almost every issue that much of their voting base care about.
Excellent, now compare that figure to the number of arrivals because to make even a tiny amount of difference it needs to be a very large negative figure…
Good. If they have no legal right to be here, then they shouldn’t be. Gotta do things the right way like all the legal immigrants who have contributed to our country.
It doesn’t matter how well Labour do on immigration. It will never be enough. The right-wing press are never satisfied, if you give them an inch they will complain that they didn’t receive a mile.
There’s also the even bigger issue here which is that immigration isn’t actually the reason so many are worse off right now. Immigration is the right-wing scapegoat so despite all of this people aren’t going to see any actual material difference to their lives.
This means that when the right continue to complain about this issue and tell everyone that Labour aren’t going hard enough voters will believe it because they still haven’t seen any improvements to their circumstances.
By all means tackle this issue but Labour shouldn’t tackle the distraction while failing to address the real issues which led to people being sucked down the right-wing rabbit hole in the first place. If they don’t address the real issues and make voters feel better off and more hopeful about their futures then Reform are winning the next election.
Still on track for Brits to be a minority by 2050 but hey, at least it’s “legal”
Ok * golfclaps all round * so that’s 9 months. Circa 32000 per year if we believe what they say. Fantastic, so the 1.2m illegals in the country will only take 37.5 years to ship back at this rate.
Pardon my ignorance, but as someone outside the UK is this a good or bad thing? They can just deport whoever they want to?? What if UK citizens get caught up in the crossfire? If someone could explain that would be great
Then start interrupting the boats heading to the UK from the mainland. You can see where they depart from, it’s not the 17th century, we have vision now from our shores. Intercept the boats and poke them back out to sea. Rescue any which fail and return them to the land they departed from, with their photo/fingerprint ID and inform them they now owe the UK the sum of £X for our services rescuing them at sea.
The people selling these boat trips go out of business. The enterprise ends.