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Mass migration is putting British women and girls in danger

Opinion by Robert Jenrick
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A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover

To many Brits, it has long been a statement of the obvious that mass, uncontrolled migration is fuelling crime. It’s just common sense. Some societies have higher levels of violent and sexual crime, and individuals who migrate from those countries to the UK are unlikely to shed those cultural differences quickly.

It’s a point I made recently in the context of the rape gang scandal. We have imported thousands of people from alien cultures who possess mediaeval attitudes towards women. Cue much hysteria from the liberal establishment. Supposedly intelligent elites have smeared anyone advancing the link between immigration and crime as bigots. They have hidden behind the lack of data as a comfort blanket – this makes them unable to prove their hypothesis that immigration is enriching, but it also crucially prevents immigration restrictionists from proving it’s making the country less safe either.
Belatedly the debate is now changing as the facts emerge. We now know 40 per cent of sexual assaults committed in London last year were by foreign nationals – across the whole country that figure is 26 per cent.
And we now have indicative data by nationality too: Albanians, for example, remain the largest foreign national group in prison.

Immigration liberals now have nowhere to hide. Tom Swarbrick recently asked the Minister for Women and Equalities, Jess Phillips: “Do you think there are people in this country who have a culturally very different view of men, and are therefore more likely to be engaged in [sex offences]?” She squirmed. All countries are patriarchal, she responded – as if the status of women in the UK and countries with FGM and forced marriage are somehow the same.
Phillips was left stumped when confronted with the indicative data that Afghan men are twenty times more likely to be convicted of a sexual crime than Brits. She sidestepped the uncomfortable truth – unable to quibble it – and retreated to explaining that she has limited resources so it’s not her focus.
It was at that moment I can imagine listeners shouting at their radios. Well, of course, resources are tight – so let’s not make our crime epidemic any worse through a ridiculously naive immigration system.
Today yet more data has emerged which represents another nail in the coffin for immigration liberals. We have imported so many sexual predators and violent individuals that there are now record numbers clogging up our prisons at extraordinary cost to the taxpayer.
The progressive position must surely be to remove every single one of these sick individuals. Why on earth would we risk the safety of women – of our wives, sisters and daughters? I await the calls from women’s equalities campaigners for deportations – but I’m not holding my breath.
It’s astonishing that so many self-described feminists continue to defend mass migration, directly or indirectly, even when the risks are now so clear. When forced to choose between the two, they seem to always choose mass migration over the interests of women in this country.
Even with our criminal justice system at bursting point, Starmer has made no intervention to fix this problem. He has chosen to pass emergency legislation to release thousands of dangerous criminals from prison early, rather than initiate emergency measures to deport thousands of foreign offenders. And he’s done nothing to restrict visas from those countries whose nationals are fuelling crime.
But now he has nowhere to hide. The data is clear: failure to act would be an abdication of duty.

Mass migration is putting British women and girls in danger