A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you have a sponsored invasion of asylum seekers – 4 billion for 2022 and 16.5 billion since end 2013 What about 4 million illegal immigrants?

From here:

UK Cost of Illegal Immigration Doubles to £4 Billion in 12 Months (theepochtimes.com)

“The cost to the United Kingdom of managing the illegal immigrant influx has almost doubled in a year to 3.97 billion pounds—a rise of 1.85 billion pounds within 12 months.

The figure—released among immigration statistics on Aug. 24—is almost quadruple that of Home Office spending on illegal immigration a decade ago, which was 500.2 million pounds in 2013.”

The costs arose long before 2013, but let’s just focus on the cumulative cost for the last ten years.

To do that, we can approximate the cost from 2013’s 500.2 million pound estimate rising steadily up to 2021’s figure of 2.12 billion pounds (3.97 billion – 1.85 billion) and add on the 3.97 billion for 2022.

The annual increase from end 2013 to end 2021 = 180 million pounds and the cumulative cosy to end 2021 from end 2013 = 12.5 billion pounds

Now add the 2022 figure of 3.97 billion pounds and you get around 16.5 billion pounds.

Asylum seekers are a different category than illegal immigrants.

“At the end of June, there were 117,450 individuals in receipt of asylum help, 26 percent more than at the end of June 2022. More than 50,500 of those were lodged in hotels, 62,728 people were listed as being in “other” accommodations while 4 percent, a total of 4,176 people, were in receipt of subsistence support.”

From here:

Immigration figures: Tories push Sunak for 'urgent' change as 1.4m given visas and asylum backlog hits record (inews.co.uk)

“Rishi Sunak is under pressure as latest figures show more than 1.4m migrants were given permission to stay in the year to June”

Enquiring minds want to know if that 1.4 million is for one year!

My guess is that there are around half the number per capita of illegal immigrants in the UK as the US. There are around 40 million illegal immigrants in the US – 12% of the US population.

6% of the UK’s 68 million population = around 4 million illegal immigrants.

Most of those illegals would be in work. Heaven forbid they are costing a similar amount for welfare, housing, education bills, food and the infrastructure needed to process those 4 million.

4 billion pounds a year for 117,500 or so asylum seekers would translate to 136 billion a year if the same costs applied to 4 million illegal immigrants.

As it is, the UK government denies tax cuts and/or pay rises to key workers but is quite happy to sponsor illegal immigration and act like the UK is some sort of “sanctuary city” without its own debt and deficit problems.

Onwards!

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