Three national groups —people from Congo, Iraq, and Afghanistan—are claiming benefits in Britain at four times the rate of British people.
While the average for the UK was 100 people claiming for every 1,000, the numbers are much higher among people from Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Eritrea, Syria, Somalia, Iran, Morocco, and Slovakia.
And remember, these costs of some £7.5 billion for just one year do not include the £5.4 billion that Iis spent on our broken asylum system.
The costs associated with migrants who do not work stem from increased public spending on services like education, healthcare, and benefits, and leads to higher taxes or reduced spending in other areas, adn teh Government will tell you that teh fiscal impact of migration is complex, and studies show that illegal migrants contribute significantly to the downturn in the economy which you pay for taxes and having to work every harder.
If you believe the The Migration Observatory at Oxford University, then the impacts of migration on public finances depend on migrants’ characteristics, such as their age, skills, and earnings. Some groups, such as people with children, need to earn more to make a net positive fiscal contribution because they incur greater expenditure on health and education and that the precise estimate of migrants’ fiscal contribution or cost depends heavily on the methods analysts use. Regardless of the differences in methods, studies typically find that the fiscal impacts of migration represent less than 1% of GDP, but this mixes the very high earning migrants who have come in legally and those who are net drains who have come in illegally.
Just look into the details at the Migration Observatory and, in my opinion, their deceptive handling of the migration data becomes clear. They state
– “people migrating to the UK for work have the highest employment rates, while refugees have lower employment rates”.
(In fact, once you dig into the data, you see rapidly that they don’t just have lower employment rates, they have very significantly lower employment rates, often in the black economy where they pay no tax and where many don’t declare earnings as this would lower their benefits and that in most cases they are a net drain on the country. In many cases, they don’t just earn less, they’re on benefit for life!)
“Visa categories where workers have higher earnings, come without children, or come for short periods are expected to be more fiscally beneficial, based on the research findings cited above“.
(Yes, the only good migrants are the very high earners as they come in for only a short period and without children.. they stay for a few years, contributing significantly to the economy and paying high taxes – Much harder to find in The Migration Observatory is the data readily found at The Centre for Migration Control which highlights that outside this group, there is a net drain on the economy, significant impact on the NHS, Dentisty , Schools, etc – and that is before you take into account the priority that illegal migrants get to the detriment of the average life-long British resident.
We need urgent action on Migration NOW.
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