'It's a scandal!' Patrick Christys blasts 'we've LOST thousands of illegal immigrants'

The government doesn't want you to know the truth about Britain's broken borders, and they don't want me to tell you. But they can no longer hide this level of incompetence.

We are not detaining illegal immigrants. We've lost thousands of them.

Unless they hand themselves in, the game's up. A complete chuckle brother called Sir Matthew Ryecroft, a civil servant who was given a knighthood despite overseeing record immigration, said: "The people who are in the country, they are not detained so we cannot pinpoint a precise location but for the vast majority we have contact details and we use those contact details to seek to re-establish contact with them."

So what happens when they go missing?

Home Secretary James Cleverly says they're not missing. They've disengaged. Well, it's not called the disengaged children's list, is it? They're missing. OK, to be more precise, he's lost them.

Another complete fudge. Now, stop the boats, they said. Well, despite claiming boat crossings are down, we've got around 35,000 people this year.

Other illegal routes into Britain are obviously on the up.

Here are some of the revelations. We passed the Illegal Migration Bill which is supposed to stop people from being able to engage in the asylum process if they've entered Britain illegally. We are still letting them engage.

Why? Well, because we haven't got a returns agreement with their home countries nothing has changed there. Here's another home truth for you. If they haven't already gone missing, you're still paying for them.

Why? Because otherwise, they'd be destitute. There have been around 10 reports commissioned by the Home Office into illegal immigration that have never been published, and the chap who helped write those reports has now not had his contract renewed.

It is no longer called an asylum seeker backlog, by the way. It's now the queue, so we've cleared the backlog by renaming it a queue. This is complete chaos.

Reports are not being published. Politicians and civil servants are engaging in Orwellian mind games by renaming things, like the word missing. They do not appear to be enforcing legislation, mainly because it is seemingly unenforceable. They are burying or hiding relevant information and myriad different documents.

So not only can journalists like me not really get a hold of it, but neither can members of the Select Committee who are looking them directly in the eye and asking them for it.

It is a scandal.