Ben Leo: is it time for an emergency shutdown of Britain's borders?
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OPINION - Why does our government and civil service want to hide the true scale of migrant crime in this country?
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Why does our government and civil service want to hide the true scale of migrant crime in this country?
Is it because the data might show that not everyone who comes here from abroad is a doctor or architect?
High-functioning countries such as Denmark publish data on migrant crime rates - and there’s no reason we can’t.
In the absence of the government doing its job, at least some journalists are.
Ben Leo has asked if Britain's borders should be shut down
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Because in the Daily Telegraph today it’s revealed foreigners are convicted up to a quarter of sex crimes in this country - despite census data showing foreign nationals make up just over nine per cent of the population.
In the the first data analysis of its kind from the Center for Migration Control, up to one in four sexual offences are committed by migrants.
Shocking new data has laid bare the extent of sexual offence convictions
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Two nationalities - Afghans and Eritreans – were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens.
And overall, foreign nationals were 71 per cent more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions.
Drilling into the data, drawn from the police national computer, it shows there were 16,771 convictions for sexual offences carried out by someone with a known nationality between 2021 and 2023.
The highest numbers of sex offence convictions were accounted for by Romanians (987), Poles (208), Indians (148) and Pakistanis (144).
However, the rates, based on convictions per 10,000 of the population put Afghans, with 77 convictions, at the top with a rate of 59 per 10,000 – 22.3 times that of Britons.
They were followed by Eritreans, who accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population.
Britons accounted for 12,619 sex offence convictions, representing a rate of 2.66 per per 10,000 of their population in England and Wales.
So... is it time for an emergency shutdown of Britain's borders until we sort this problem out?