News Insights reports:
‘Send Them Back’ Chants Erupt After New Migration Law PASSED!
At last the UK has no justification for hiding behind ECHR rules in dealing with its own illegal immigration crisis as the EU gets to grips with it's own.
But it's hard to understand the UK's illegal immigration statistics, for example:
A total of 39,000 returns from the UK were recorded in the YE March 2026 (including both enforced and voluntary returns). This is a 7% increase on the 36,500 returns in the same period 12 months prior.
The Home Office seeks to return people who do not have a legal right to stay in the UK to another country. Returns are reported in 3 main groups:
- enforced returns include people subject to administrative removal or deportation action which is carried out by the Home Office
- voluntary returns include people who were liable to removal action or subject to immigration control but have left of their own accord, sometimes with support from the Home Office
- port returns include people who are refused entry to the UK at a place of arrival and have subsequently departed
So that's 75,500 returns in just 2 years.
According to AI:
The UK does not have an official count of all people living in the country without permission, but it records detections of people arriving without authorisation. Between January 2018 and March 2026, a total of 197,000 people were detected arriving in the UK via small boats, which have been the most common unauthorised entry method since 2020.
Even if 197,000 is not the total number of illegal immigrants recorded it must be close to it as this by far the preferred route for illegal immigrants.
That means that somewhere around a third have been returned in just 2 years which suggests that most of the 197,000 would have been returned over 8 years.
If so then we don't have an illegal immigration problem as they have all been sent back!
The issue is that the data is unsound.
Problem: Illegal immigration
Solution: Log each illegal immigrant arrival in a single database. Issue illegals with a temporary ID card with a personal QR code that is needed to get anything in the UK. Log their subsequent asylum and return status as their applications progress and track their whereabouts in the country based on use of the QR code to access benefits, accommodation etc.
It's not rocket science.
And the UK wants to be a global AI hub?