Monday saw a record number of illegal migrants enter England by crossing the Channel, or La Manche if one is a Francophile.
BREAKING: A total of 1,295 people were detected crossing the English Channel in small boats on Monday, the highest daily number since current records began, the Ministry of Defence said. pic.twitter.com/oqUV9d6YyT
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Yet, an analysis of the published figures and trends show that Ireland is receiving three times that many migrants per capita this year.
The 1,295 migrants who did entered Britain on Monday brought the total for the year to 22,560 which is almost twice the number, of just under 12,500, who had managed to flee the safe country of France at the same point in 2021.
28,526 people made the crossing in 2021 compared to 8,404 for the whole of 2020. Numbers naturally rise during the better weather of the Summer months and fall steeply as the hours of daylight shorten and the weather becomes more unpredictable.
Despite references in most media to children and families being among those crossing on Monday, even the BBC report stated that “the vast majority arriving were young men.” Indeed, it is safe to say that the notion of babies in life jackets is a bit of a left liberal myth at this stage, as is also apparent from the profile of people who arrive to claim asylum in this country.
The overall number of asylum applications made in the United Kingdom last year was 48,450 with that forecast to increase to somewhere around 60,000 by the end of 2022. While the British Tory government had hoped that the decision to deport people to Rwanda would act as a deterrent, that has predictably become stalled in NGO sponsored court actions.
According to reports, including from sources in Albania itself, somewhere in the region of 40% of the men crossing from France are from another safe country, Albania, something which completely undermines the migrant sector’s claim that the vast majority of people are fleeing wars and other human rights crises. Gript has previously highlighted this phenomenon in the context of the country of origin of the large majority of people who apply for asylum in Ireland.
It also appear clear that those crossing are not just randomers who turn up and take a chance but are people who are paying large amounts of money in order to arrive in a country where they believe they will be able to make much more significant sums in various ways. According to the Mail on Sunday, which had also seen leaked intelligence reports, criminal gangs charge between £5,500 to be taken on an inflatable boat, to £22,000 to be smuggled in a lorry.
How many of those crossing over to England by sea, or who enter by other means, subsequently travel to Ireland in pursuit of a much more lax and generous system of provision, is unknown.
What is clear is that at the current rate of asylum applications being made in Ireland compared to the UK – and in the light of the forecasts for both jurisdictions for the whole of 2022 – Ireland is admitting asylum seekers at more than three times the per capita rate as our nearest neighbour.
Were Britain to take in the same proportion per head of population as Ireland the forecast for the 12 months of 2022 would be for more than 200,000 compared to 60,000.
Were Ireland to be admitting people at the same rate as the UK we would take in just 4,350 not 15,000.