** Britain is home to Europe's biggest population of illegal migrants, and it isn't hard to see why:
Just 41pc of those turned down for asylum between 2010 and 2020 had been removed from the UK by 2022.
We conduct roughly 11 illegal working enforcement visits a day across the entire country, against an estimate of somewhere between 190,000 and 240,000 businesses employing illegal migrants.
Even if we had a list of which doors to knock on it would take us over 57 years to visit them all at our current rate.
Meanwhile, for every pound we spend on immigration enforcement, we spend £9 supporting and accommodating asylum seekers.
** The research – published in October 2024 and compiled by 18 institutions including Oxford University's Compas centre – estimated the number of illegal migrants in the UK was between 594,000 and 745,000.
This is roughly 1% of population.
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