Border Security Minister Angela Eagle has promised that migrants who overstay their visas will be expelled from the UK after statistics revealed that they make up over 40% of asylum requests.
Approximately 40,000 individuals who came to Britain as tourists, laborers, or students last year applied for asylum. Despite their early claims that they wouldn’t want public assistance, about 10,000 people stayed in government-supported hotels or otherwise funded housing.
Out of fear that migrants are using the visa system as a backdoor to residency, UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has initiated an investigation.
Border Security Minister Angela Eagle told Times Radio, “We inherited the system with a 70% fall in any kind of processing with 100,000 people in dispersal accommodation or hotels who the previous government wasn’t even processing.”
She added, “When they came in on a visa, they told us that they had the means to exist in the country without relying on public funds.”
Asked if visa overstayers would be removed from taxpayer-funded housing, Eagle said, “They will certainly and if they’re overstaying, they’ll be removed from the country.”
Meanwhile, PM Keir Starmer hosted a summit with 40 nations to tackle illegal migration, urging global cooperation against smuggling gangs.
“Illegal migration is a massive driver of global insecurity,” Starmer said. “It undermines our ability to control who comes here… It makes me angry, frankly, because it’s unfair to ordinary working people who pay the price.”
The UK will spend £33 million to disrupt smuggling networks, including funding foreign prosecutions.
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