UK Prisons

Will Labour use the UK’s new migrant crime figures to control the narrative about immigration?

1,200 Albanian nationals – of the 53,000 living in the UK – are in prison. That’s a rate of 1 in 50.

The imprisonment rate of foreign nationals is 27% higher than for British citizens.

Freedom of information requests by @migrationCtrl revealed the arrest rate for foreign nationals was 35% higher than for British citizens in 2023. But we don’t have details on exactly which foreign nationals are most likely to commit exactly which type of crime.

We would have that data, except the Home Office refuses to publish it.

@StevenEdginton (X) has reported how senior civil servant Matthew Rycroft and Minister Jess Phillips MP have refused to answer questions from Home Office employees about releasing data on which nations’ migrants commit which crimes.

Last year, when Robert Jenrick MP called on the Home Office to create “league tables” of which nations’ migrants commit crimes, civil servants threatened legal action.

An amendment to the Sentencing Bill, requiring the government present an annual report to Parliament detailing the nationality, visa, and asylum status of convicted offenders was abandoned due to Sunak calling the general election.

The Telegraph had to compile this data from Ministry of Justice statistics, stating there are 10,435 foreign nationals in jails in England and Wales compared with 76,866 British nationals, and cross-referencing with 2021 ONS data.

Precise statistics have been hidden from public view by the Home Office and successive governments, all the while they prescide over unprecedented levels of immigration and demographic change.

I can’t help but think these stats will be responded to by the Labour government with the promise of more deportations.

A government spokesman already told the Telegraph: 

“This Government is committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation.”

This is because Albania is the country we have a returns agreement with already, and because Albanians are White Europeans. It’s safe for Labour to act like they’re taking action by deporting Albanian criminals.

They should absolutely do this. But when we suggest they release data on, say, the number of sex crimes committed by Pakistani nationals, for example, then expect accusations of racism.

This is exactly what happened after then Home Secretary Sajid Javid ordered an inquiry into the Grooming Gangs.

The stats were buried in claims that the overall number of offences against children were committed by White perpetrators.

The per capita stats were not put in their proper context: as “Asian” men are three times more likely than White British to be convinced of child rapes offences

“Asian” also conflates Japanese and Sikhs with Pakistani Muslims. It obscures exactly who the culprits are, where they come from, and why they did it

A GB News investigation found that 1 in every 2,200 Muslim males, and 1 in 1,700 Pakistanis, have been prosecuted for child rapes between 1997 and 2017.

If they produced more granular data, the government and civil service would have to admit that they know which nations produce more violent criminals, and that, despite this, they import them in their millions anyway.

So they’ll talk tough about Albania, while doing nothing to reduce the thousands of foreign murders and rape criminals they import into Britain.