Migration Watch UK is an independent and non-political body established in October 2001. Our purposes are to; monitor migration flows to and from the UK, provide to the press and public the most accurate, available information, in a comprehensible form, provide balanced comment, identify policy options for consideration by government. Migration Watch UK proceeds on the basis that existing ethnic minorities form a valuable part of British society, and that genuine asylum seekers should be give...| www.migrationwatchuk.org
1. Over 41,300 people have come to the UK illicitly in boats since the start of 2018. 16,500 of these came in the period January 2018 and to the end of June 2021.[ See our Channel Tracking Station to stay on top of the numbers coming in boats, URL: https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2020/05/11/arrivals-via-deadly-and-illegal-channel-crossing-from-safe-countries ] Data from a Freedom of Information release show that nearly 90% of those crossing during this period were male.[ Freedom of Info...| Migration Watch UK