Lunatic asylum
FAR from smashing the gangs, Labour has lost control of our borders entirely.
For months ministers have insisted they have been cutting the use of hotels for illegal migrants.
PALabour has lost control of our borders entirely – why can’t our Government crack down on asylum rules?[/caption]
In fact, numbers in them have gone UP in the last year.
Asylum claims in total are up 14 per cent to 111,000 — another record — as 51,000 arrived on small boats. That’s a 38 per cent increase in just 12 months.
At the current rate, 181,000 may have come here illegally by the next election.
The figures also reveal thousands are being quietly placed in blocks of flats among families in cities across the country, adding to the housing crisis.
Worse, there is clearly widespread abuse of the legal migration system.
More than HALF of asylum claims are from foreigners granted a student or work visa only to suddenly claim persecution in their home country when it expires.
It should be obvious that anyone who comes here as a student or to work should be automatically banned from claiming asylum later.
Sweden has cracked down on asylum rules.
It has made language and culture tests harder, ramped up deportations and put failed asylum seekers in detention centres.
Why can’t our Government do the same?
Cry freedom
LUCY Connolly should never have served a year behind bars alongside drug dealers and murderers for a nasty tweet.
What she published during last year’s riots may have been unpleasant.
But mum Connolly clearly immediately regretted the post and swiftly deleted it
Her crime was never worthy of a 31-month sentence.
As a comparison, Palestinian Hamas supporter Abu Wadee, who arrived illegally on a small boat and posted calls for the slaughter of British Jews, got just nine months.
Childminder Lucy, also denied bail, has become a symbol for those who believe she was a victim of politically motivated two-tier justice.
Did she really deserve her life and family to be so devastatingly torn apart?
White trashed
WHAT is the plan to help white, working class kids do better at school?
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson should be concerned by yet another overall fall in the GCSE pass rate.
More concerning is the catastrophic performance of poor, white children — especially boys.
Many will now join the ranks of the one million 16 to 24-year-olds currently not in work, education or training,
Successive generations of workless, benefits-claiming young people are being needlessly thrown on the scrapheap.
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