Migration Watch

THE TRUE SCALE OF MIGRANT CRIME Mass migration to Britain has seen serious crimes like rape, assault and theft surge. In just the first 3 weeks of this year, 20 migrants have pleaded guilty to, or been convicted of, a serious crime. Full list below 👇 JANUARY 3RD: Afghan migrant Abid Sherzard, who arrived in Britain via small boat and was living in taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation, is found guilty of sexual assault after attacking a sleeping woman in London. JANUARY 5TH: Afghan migrant Sohail Amiri, who arrived in Britain via small boat and was living in taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation, pleads guilty to sexually assaulting two women and attempting to assault a third in Southampton. JANUARY 7TH: Kurdish migrant Osman Bahidiny is jailed for 8 years, 8 months for crimes including rape, burglary, theft, dangerous driving, and driving without insurance. JANUARY 7TH: Five Albanian migrants, Endrit Nikolli, George Lleshaj, Krisjian Dedndreaj, Kristian Gropcaj, and Sidorjan Lleshi, plead guilty to a spate of 44 burglaries across the UK. JANUARY 9TH: Indian migrant Asish Jose Paul is jailed for 14 months after repeatedly breaching bail to stalk a former colleague at London Zoo. JANUARY 9TH: Sudanese migrant Ahmed Mohammed, who claimed asylum in Britain in 2012 and has racked up 29 convictions, is convicted again of threatening a person with an offensive weapon in a public place after brandishing a knife at a Christian preacher. JANUARY 9TH: Algerian migrant Brahim Kaddour-Cheri, a convicted sex offender who was accidentally released from prison in October 2025, pleads guilty in court to carrying a knife and burglary. JANUARY 9TH: Yemeni asylum seeker Muqbil Al Dhaheri pleads guilty to sexually assaulting a hospital worker and urinating in front of members of the public. JANUARY 12TH: Kurdish migrant Mehmet Ogur, who arrived in Britain via small boat and was living in taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation, is jailed for 7 years after raping an 18 year old woman in a park in Tamworth. JANUARY 13TH: Albanian migrant Romeo Zani is jailed for 2 years after illegally entering Britain for the fifth time. Mr Zani has previous convictions for money laundering and dealing drugs. JANUARY 14TH: Algerian migrant Munir Ghilas is jailed for 18 months for a lengthy crime spree in London, stealing laptops and passports. JANUARY 14TH: Two Romanian migrants, Ion Zaharia and Samir Barbulesteanu, are jailed for 4 years, 3 months and 3 years, 6 months respectively for a spate of burglaries in Cheshire which they began just hours after arriving in Britain. JANUARY 14TH: Indian migrant Sovamsing David Muivah is jailed for 9 years after being found guilty of four counts of sexual assault. JANUARY 15TH: Albanian migrant Sadik Marku is jailed for 18 months after being caught operating a cannabis farm. JANUARY 20TH: Albanian migrant Liridon Kastrati is jailed for 10 years after crashing his car into a police vehicle and attacking a police officer with a chainsaw.

The Home Office is rotten to the core. The people in charge of our borders hate Britain and are perfectly happy with the damage that mass migration causes.

A man had only arrived in the UK on a small boat 16 days before trying to climb into the Israeli embassy with a knife. "We shouldn't assume that they are all well-intentioned, because when they are not, the British public pay the price!" @ThatAlexWoman

British universities have turned into visa mills, selling access to Britain, in this case at the cost of the safety of the British people. Read our report exposing the student visa scam below 👇🏻

Between 2022 and 2024, Migration Watch estimates over 1.1 million migrants were able to enter Britain via student visas and subsequently remain here. Our universities have essentially become visa mills. Read the full report on student visas below 👇

For those who can get behind the paywall.

The media will describe him as a "Welsh choirboy".

Our country is in a dark and dangerous place. In the last week we have seen: Multiple stabbings in North London - allegedly orchestrated by an Islamist group. A huge police raid on the premises of an Islamic sect in Cheshire for alleged sex offences and forced marriages. Two Afghans charged with rape in Plymouth. A Sri Lankan hotel migrant charged with grooming and raping a teenage girl. An Iraqi charged with sexual assault in Stockport. An Egyptian illegal migrant laughing as he is convicted for rape. An Iranian rapist avoiding prison and instead required to undertake a 'consent programme'. The Iranian embassy call for a British-based Iranians to join a "martyrdom programme". What have politicians done to our country?

Absolutely @MichelleDewbs, exactly so, as we at MW have been pointing out for years. This is what we said in 2010: migrationwatchuk.org/only-severe-cu…

It’s called the internet, Jess! You can find the way to optimise claims to access the state in 5 minutes. There are websites set up to help you. Reddit forums. There are lawyers and charities that will do this if you cannot. Analogue government, digital claimants!

Residents were rightly concerned by this religious sect operating in their community. Rather than listen to these concerns - local Labour politicians visited for cups of coffee. We need to stop importing alien and potentially dangerous ideologies.

The mass migration experiment has been such a huge, unqualified success that it requires constant propaganda to remind you how successful it is.

New ONS population forecasts just out - they say from this year on, ALL forecast population growth comes from immigration:

Last year there were 2,247 council houses given to veterans, compared to 29,746 given to non-UK nationals. More social tenancies went to people from Iran & Eritrea (2,511) than UK veterans. Starmer is about to ramp this madness FURTHER so he can say he's "closed the hotels"

Small boat crossing > home office accommodation > claim granted > home office accommodation ends > declare homeless > go into local government funded temporary accommodation. As local government temporary accommodation supply is overwhelmed so it is forced to suspend council house letting and buy homes off the market to house those for whom they have a statutory duty to house. It is a complete scandal.

How odd, what do Redbridge, Blackburn, Birmingham, Blackburn, Burnley, Oldham, Rochdale, Kirklees and Newham have in common?

Studies from Australia and the Netherlands show the lifetime net-fiscal costs of a refugee is -AU$/€ 400,000 per person, no studies have been done for the UK, though the Migration Advisory Committee reference both the Australian and Netherlands figures in their 2025 annual report, so they must believe they are appropriate to use. A basic conversion from AU$/€ to £ and you get a lifetime net-fiscal cost range of £211,000 to £348,000, probably closer to the latter figure as welfare in the UK/Netherlands is more generous than Australia, and Australia does a better job at deterring illegal migration as they push back boats and have offshore processing. Over 198,000 illegal migrants have arrived via small boat, they almost all claim asylum. Not counting any other routes or the legal migrants who become tax drains. For the small boat cohort that have arrived so far, that's a lifetime net-fiscal cost of £42 - £69 billion~. Then there's the social and cultural arguments, which are harder to quantify, but nonetheless just as important. Do you seriously think this country will be recognisable or even functional if current trends continue...

The idea that we cannot deport someone because they are going to have a bad time at home is completely unsustainable. We have to cut the cord. We gave up being the world's father when we withdrew from Empire; now we need to give up being the world's mother.

NEW: An internal memo shows analysts at the ONS have acknowledged there is a "huge overrepresentation" of foreign nationals charged with sex crimes in London. In 2024, up to 46% of those charged were not British. @MayorofLondon still claims "diversity is our strength"...