Centre for Migration Control

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[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

Personal news: After two years in DC for GB News, I am leaving the channel and returning to London to report on migration, the Home Office and Whitehall.

I will be producing documentaries, interviews and podcasts on YouTube, as well as written reports.

I plan to hold our political class to account, and report on uncomfortable but important stories.

At GB News, I challenged leading politicians, including Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Simon Clarke, Richard Tice, Chris Philp, Dan Crenshaw and others. I produced documentaries around the US on the rise of radical Islam, illegal migration and replacement migration in the tech sector. I look forward to continuing this work independently in Britain.

If you wish to support my work, please subscribe below.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Sultani Bakatash, 29, groomed a 14-year-old girl online on Snapchat before inviting her and a friend to his flat in Georgina Court, Bolton, on Dec 6.

There, he plied both 14-year-olds with alcohol before raping them while they were unconscious, Bolton Crown Court heard.

🔗:https://t.co/b6dKqMGnjk

[Migration Watch @MigrationWatch]

The outcomes of the disastrous mass migration "experiment" were obvious and predictable a generation ago, yet successive governments pursued it anyway - to "rub the noses of the Right in diversity".

A country ruined out of pure spite.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

Two thirds of Brits support the deportation of all illegal migrants. This is the centre ground of British politics.

Why, therefore, is Labour planning to increase removals by just 4,500 a year?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Convicted ISIS terrorist who attended beheadings and public floggings in Iraq came to Britain on small boat after hearing on Tiktok that UK 'accepts everyone' court hears https://t.co/iLuMUHA6iu

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

British citizenship is being systematically devalued.

First it was the vapid notion of "British values". Now the Home Office is abandoning even that loose concept - allowing illegal migrants to become British simply because they have been in the country for 6 years.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

‘ It is an astonishing state of affairs that we've now got citizenship being defined on how long you're in the country rather than whether you subscribe to British values…’

This week’s Planet Normal guest, Rob Bates from @migrationctrl speaks to @LiamHalligan and @AllisonPearson about @UKLabour’s immigration plans and why they will only make the issue worse

🎧👉https://t.co/EUrd5RTWYD

[Guy Dampier @dampierguy]

In @Telegraph I argue that moving asylum seekers from hotels to houses is purely cosmetic. This is about the material interests of the British people: every asylum seeker costs taxpayers six figures and many pose a violent risk. They need to be stopped. https://t.co/EwTdSXTQK2

[Migration Watch @MigrationWatch]

The £4.7b black hole in the Defence Investment Plan could be filled at a stroke - simply prevent the 2025 cohort of Article 8 migrants from accessing any kind of taxpayer funded welfare. Estimated net saving: £4.9b.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

We will see more and more "migrant streets" around Britain until the government invests in a massive increase of immigration detention capacity.

It is the only fair and proportionate response to the asylum crisis.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘This is all because the government have not gone down the route of investing in detention centres.’

Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, Rob Bates, says the Home Office is increasingly resorting to more desperate measures to get a grip on migrant hotels.

[Talk @TalkTV]

🚨"He's completely skirting around migration"

Robert Bates says Andy Burnham flip flopped constantly as Manchester Mayor on policies for asylum seekers and wanted to water down Labour's plans to stop small boat migrants.

@migrationCtrl | @jkyleofficial

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'A really offensive state of affairs!'

Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, Rob Bates warns that Labour removing the ban on small boat migrants getting British citizenship is 'baking in huge fiscal problems' for the country.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

NEW: The Home Office has confirmed that an individual granted the right to stay in Britain under Article 8 of the ECHR - the right to family life - will cost the country £141,000 over their lifetime.

The total cost last year of Article 8 main applicants was £4.9billion.

[Talk @TalkTV]

"We're seeing a systematic devaluation of what it means to be British."

Julia speaks with Robert Bates, Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control about Shabana Mahmood's planned changes to immigration laws.

@JuliaHB1

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

The only announcement today which matters is how many illegal migrants and criminals the government plans to remove from the country.

Increasing returns by just 4,500 a year does not get close to matching the scale of the problem. Everything else is noise and spin.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'This is just tinkering.'

Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, Rob Bates outlines whether Labour's new overhaul of the asylum appeal system will speed up the deportation of failed asylum seekers.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

There are well over a million illegal migrants and foreign criminals living in Britain. 39,000 were removed in the last 12 months.

Labour's grand plan is to increase removals and deportations by just 4,500 a year.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

The EU Settlement Scheme (the MayWave) has been a disaster for Britain.

Hundreds of thousands of non-Europeans have settled under this route.

[Michael Knowles @Express_Knowles]

New: A migrant arrested on suspicion of murdering a two-year-old girl was granted leave to remain under the EU Settlement Scheme, the Daily Express understands.

Kevin Kerjean, 31, was charged after a horrific incident in Chertsey, Surrey, on Thursday night.

And Kerjean applied for European Union Settled Status in December 2020. He was granted leave to remain in March 2021.

Kerjean, 31, who Surrey Police said is a French national born in the Central African Republic, was also charged with rape of a child under 13 and sexual assault of a child under 13.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

NEW: The Home Office has confirmed that an individual granted the right to stay in Britain under Article 8 of the ECHR - the right to family life - will cost the country £141,000 over their lifetime.

The total cost last year of Article 8 main applicants was £4.9billion.

[Michael Knowles @Express_Knowles]

Exclusive: A smuggling kingpin whose network plagues Europe laughed off Labour’s migrant crackdown, declaring "demand is too high" to reach Britain for its "hospitality" and "hotels".

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Tuesday overhaul the asylum system in a bid to end the small boats crisis.

But Afghan criminal ‘Haji Ajmal’ sensationally claimed his gang has informants “inside” the British state tipping them off about security checks in Dover and helping them to avoid detection.

And the gangster goaded ministers as he compared politicians to smugglers for always breaking their promises on deportations.

In an explosive interview, the smuggler told me: "We have some people inside of the government to report to us what’s happening. They give us some information.

“This is not only in the UK. There are people in the border areas, border police, they have some kind of cooperation with us. There are some people who are taking money. They are helping us."

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

Today we have heard that a Central African has been charged with the rape and murder of a child in Surrey, whilst a Somalian has been arrested for attempted murder.

Our government has announced plans to open new migration routes from Sudan and Eritrea.

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

There is no mandate for these measures. None at all.

The electorate is not concerned about abstract notions of “control”, they are concerned about numbers. These schemes will sow the seeds of a sustained period of low-skilled, socially corrosive chain migration.

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

New safe and legal routes for refugees to come to the UK will begin to rollout in the autumn, giving genuine refugees a pathway to rebuild their lives.

Our new community sponsorship scheme will allow approved groups to choose the refugees they sponsor, taking responsibility for their housing, integration and supporting them into work. Trusted universities will be able to directly sponsor refugees through a new refugee study route.

A new refugee work sponsorship route is expected to open next year.

All arrivals will have refugee status, undergo strict biometric screening, criminality checks and health assessments before arrival, to ensure support reaches those in genuine need.

Numbers will start small and build over time, ensuring the routes remain controlled and sustainable while public confidence is restored in Britain's immigration system.

The first refugee arrivals are expected by autumn 2027.