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Available evidence does not support a simple claim that immigration is the main driver of rising crime in the UK; academic reviews and UK-focused briefings find mixed or weak links and emphasise data ...
Available official data show non-UK nationals made up 12.4% of the prison population in June 2025 and around 13% of cautions and convictions in 2024, while detailed breakdowns by immigration status, l...
Publicly available analyses find that, overall, foreign nationals in England and Wales are imprisoned or convicted at roughly similar rates to British nationals once the younger age profile of many mi...
England (and the wider UK) is experiencing a sharp political and social debate about migration: official long‑term net migration fell to 204,000 in the year to June 2025 — down from 649,000 a year ear...
Available UK research since 2010 finds no clear evidence that immigrants commit more crime than native-born once key factors—especially age and socio‑economic status—are controlled for, and several la...
The Daily Mail has a long record of strong anti‑migrant framing and repeated accuracy problems that have required corrections or regulator admonishments; most recently it was reprimanded by IPSO for a...
Available official sources say it is not possible to produce a precise, up‑to‑date count of how many people living in the UK without permission are men, but population subsets that are measured show a...
Since 2010 UK policing underwent major cuts and structural reform—police officer numbers fell about 15% from ~143,000 to 122,000 between 2010 and 2018 and force governance was rewritten with elected P...
Official UK figures show non-UK nationals made up about 12–13% of key criminal justice counts in recent reporting: 12.4% of the prison population in June 2025 and roughly 13% of cautions and convictio...
Available data do not support a simple claim that immigrants come to the UK to “intentionally commit crimes.” Government and research sources show mixed patterns: non-UK nationals made up about 12.4% ...
Since the 2020 Brexit policy there is , and the available items focus on related issues such as organised crime, returns of unauthorised migrants, and trends in hate crime rather than offender immigra...
The claim that asylum seekers receive "special treatment in luxury hotels" is partially grounded in documented instances where the UK Home Office has housed thousands of asylum seekers in commercial h...
Official statistics on “migrant-related crimes” in the UK are fragmented: government datasets publish figures for foreign-national offenders in prisons and for police-recorded crimes and court outcome...
Since the 2020 Brexit policy there is in “migrant crime rates” in the UK established by the provided materials; studies and reports point to mixed signals — isolated rises in foreign-national convicti...
Official UK crime reporting between 2015 and 2025 does not provide a clear, comprehensive picture of offending by immigration status because the Ministry of Justice does not systematically record immi...
Policing practices, reporting behaviour and data systems shape whether and how migration and crime appear linked: police recording and enforcement practices can inflate foreign-national representation...
Peer‑reviewed academic work on migrants and crime in the UK typically uses longitudinal, local‑level or administrative datasets and careful controls (age, sex, labour‑market exposure) rather than raw ...
No — not all asylum seekers arriving by boat in the UK are male, but men form a clear majority of recent arrivals. Government statistics show adult men made up 59% of all asylum claims in the year end...
The available evidence shows that London and parts of the South East and East of England carried the heaviest burden of asylum seekers housed in hotels during 2024, with hotel use rising nationally by...
Asylum seekers in the UK are , but may apply for permission to work if their claim has been outstanding for more than 12 months and the delay is not their fault; permission is limited to certain jobs ...