According to prison statistics, Muslims and people belonging to the so-called BAME (Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic) group, as they are called, are over-represented in prisons. Attention American news portal Breitbart. According to statistics, the number of Albanian prisoners in Great Britain has risen sharply: in the past decade, it has risen from 212 in 2013 to 1,475 last year.
In June last year, 10,321 foreigners were imprisoned in England and Wales, representing 12% of the total prison population. However, the Home Office, although it maintains a register of the ethnicity of detainees in Britain, refuses to publish the full breakdown of crimes by nationality.
The ministry also did not reveal whether the detainees were in the country legally.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage accused the government of importing “mass crime” through the open immigration system, which has allowed a record number of foreigners (nearly three-quarters of a million in 2022) to enter the country and continues to bring in thousands of illegal immigrants. . Every month, migrants stream across the English Channel from France.
Former Interior Secretary Suella Braverman issued a similar warning, saying immigrants, especially those who enter the country illegally, play a major role in the country's “rising crime levels.”
In order to get a clearer picture of the impact of immigration on crime, former Immigration Secretary Robert Jenrick called on the government to start recording and publishing the citizenship, immigration and visa status of all convicted criminals. The former minister also proposed dividing the Ministry of Interior into two parts, arguing that a separate department should be tasked with monitoring illegal immigration.
