Immigration Watch International (2): UK immigration SURGE: Visas now staggering 145% HIGHER than 2021 as Tories turn on Patel

Friday, May 27, 2022

UK immigration SURGE: Visas now staggering 145% HIGHER than 2021 as Tories turn on Patel

More than 1.6 million visas and permits were granted by the Government in the year ending March 2022, the Home Office has said. The figure marks a 145 percent increase on the previous 12 months to March 2021, according to the latest available immigration statistics, published on Thursday. However, the total is around half the number that was granted in the year ending March 2020, the period leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Of the visas granted in the latest 12 months, 38 percent were to visit, 29 percent for study, 17 percent for work, three percent for family reasons, and 13 percent for other reasons, the Home Office said.

The new figures also show that the Government has granted less than half of the applications by people wanting to come to the UK from Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.

Some 60,482 applications were received across both Ukraine visa schemes but only 27,979 have been granted.

The rate of total UK asylum applications granted has hit 75 percent – its highest in over 30 years (the rate was 82 percent in 1990).

According to the Home Office, this huge uptick in the acceptance of asylum seekers has been influenced by Brexit.

It explained: “The rise in grant rate is in part because of the low number of refusals (including third country refusals, which have been affected by the UK leaving the EU), although the overall grant rate can vary for a number of reasons.”

The total number of asylum applications – 55,146 – in the year ending March 2022 was also the highest since 2003.

The figure is 56 percent more than in the year ending March 2020 and higher than at the peak of the European Migration crisis of 2015.

Ahead of the release of the Home Office data, a string of Tory MPs hit out at Priti Patel over the “drastic increase” in net immigration.

Referring to the new statistics before they were published, the group warned the Home Secretary that the rise “undeniably undermines” the Government’s Brexit promises.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1616300/uk-immigration-2022-visas-higher-tories-priti-patel-home-office-statistics-asylum-spt

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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UK immigration SURGE: Visas now staggering 145% HIGHER than 2021 as Tories turn on Patel

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