Criminology and Psychology

Labour spent £2million every day on a shambolic asylum system which failed to remove hundreds of thousands of bogus claimants, reveals a blistering study. An audit of the last government’s record reveals how officials spent as much as £10billion processing applications as they struggled to cope with a surge in numbers. But only one in four of the 660,000 decisions made on asylum claims between 1997 and 2010 led to the applicant being removed. Police swap: A suspected unlawful entrant to the UK is stopped by police officers Even where the claim was considered to be unfounded, the majority of failed asylum-seekers were not sent home. They are now living here illegally. Last night, immigration minister Damian Green said it was a symptom of the ‘hopeless chaos’ which Labour inflicted on the UK’s border controls. The study by the MigrationWatch think-tank found that 660,000 asylum cases were decided from 1997 to 2010. Some form of humanitarian protection, ...