| Topic: | Re:Afghan Asylum Seekers Jailed For Raping 15 Year Old | |
| Posted by: | John Hawkes | |
| Date/Time: | 19/12/25 14:21:00 |
| Ms Hammond, Then there are the costs of irregular immigration even caused by those granted asylum, calculated by the MAC. Reported in the Spectator - "MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not a political body, and its board is comprised of sober, sensible academics, who have set out to model ‘net fiscal impact’ – the costs, or benefits to the taxpayer of different kinds of migration. ** It’s worth noting that they do not seek to model second- or third-order costs of migration, such as housing costs, crime or long-term suppression of wages and birth rates**. On asylum, the MAC are absolutely clear, stating that they ‘expect the net fiscal impact of those entering through asylum and refugee routes to be unambiguously negative’. The academics explain this is because asylum seekers have ‘low employment rates and wages, high rates of economic inactivity’ and because they are able to claim benefits sooner, being exempt from the ‘no recourse to public funds’ rule. Further, ‘asylum migrants are also much less likely to have earnings at the higher end of the distribution’. The reality is that asylum seekers are not generally doctors or engineers. The report also notes that research in other countries shows a ‘sizeable negative lifetime impact’ from asylum seekers, with a detailed, data-led 2024 study from the Netherlands finding that each migrant granted asylum cost the Dutch state around €400,000 over their lifetime. What might it mean if the UK faced similar costs? Last year 108,138 people claimed asylum here. Around half of them were granted asylum at ‘initial decision’, but after appeal we should expect at least two-thirds to have their claim granted, based on previous years. This would mean that just for 2024’s asylum seekers we should expect around 70,000 to have their claim granted, meaning a lifetime cost to British taxpayers of around £25 billion. And that figure doesn’t include the costs of housing them before their claims are granted, nor of any crimes they might commit and any prison sentences they might receive". |