Chris Philp says Labour must 'repeal the Human Rights Act' in order to tackle migrant crisis

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has declared a "public safety crisis" as new migrant data has revealed illegal entrants into Britain are "24 times more likely" to go to prison than Britons.The analysis by the Tories suggests the rate is much higher for the nationalities who make up the largest small boat arrivals, with the most common including Somalians, Afghans, Iraqis, Albanians and Iranians.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00And let's be honest, these numbers are simply mind-boggling.

00:04Tell us, how did you reach them?

00:05Well, Martin, we put these figures together by compiling three different data sources.

00:10We looked at the nationalities crossing the English Channel, first of all.

00:13Yes.

00:13And you mentioned a moment ago what those are primarily.

00:16Then we looked at the offending rate of those nationalities in the UK,

00:20in particular, how many people from those nationalities are in UK prisons.

00:24We compared that, just keep with me,

00:27to the number of people in the UK holding those passports

00:30to work out the percentage of each nationality that wound up in prison

00:34and then applied those percentages to the numbers crossing the Channel.

00:39That showed us that just over 3%, 3.5% of Channel crossers are likely to end up in prison,

00:45assuming those nationalities are just as likely as their fellow citizens of Somalia or Afghanistan

00:52or anywhere else to wind up in prison.

00:54And then you apply that 3.5% to the numbers that have crossed this year

00:58and you find that almost 1,000 people who have crossed the Channel so far this year

01:02will end up in prison.

01:04So the Labour government has let in what is likely to become 1,000 criminals.

01:09And that tells us this isn't just a border security crisis,

01:11it's a public safety crisis as well.

01:14It's worth pointing out that these figures are a workaround

01:18and I'm not criticising them because we do that often on the Channel.

01:20You have to, because the original official data does not exist.

01:24We don't know, for example, how many people in prison specifically did come over on dinghies,

01:30but we can apply the fact they are more likely to come over on dinghies

01:33and they're in jail, therefore QED, the propensity is there.

01:38So we're assuming that the percentage of, for example, Afghans who wind up in prison

01:42having crossed by a small boat is the same as the percentage of any other Afghan

01:47to wind up in prison.

01:48So it's the best we can do with the data available,

01:50but it does show they are far, far more likely to wind up in prison,

01:5524 times more likely than the average British citizen,

01:58just going to show that the British public are being exposed to criminality

02:02by the enormous numbers crossing the Channel.

02:04And Chris Foote, when you look further into data, as we've done in the past,

02:07it's like 24 times likely to be a sex offender if you're an Afghani.

02:12I think it's like 512 times more likely to be in prison for drug offences if you're Albanian.

02:17OK, Mr Foote, we have a league table of, if you like, worst offenders,

02:22the propensity to be jailed.

02:24Would it not be sensible on the basis of this to use that list of nationalities

02:28to say, well, I'll tell you what, let's have a points-based system,

02:32let's have less people coming into the country from Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Albania or Iran,

02:39or make it a lot harder to get in to prove you have no criminal background,

02:44you're not a wrong one.

02:46So the whole system, based on your data, needs a total overhaul.

02:50Yeah, so you're now talking obviously about legal migration.

02:52When it comes to the boats, by the way, they need to be stopped completely.

02:55Every single person who crosses the Channel by a small boat

02:57should be immediately removed to a location outside of Europe,

03:00whether that's Rwanda or somewhere else, and then pretty soon they'll stop coming.

03:04So those small boat numbers need to be stopped completely.

03:07Now on legal migration you're asking about, you're right, the bar needs to be massively increased.

03:11So you've got to have a job offer with a high salary before you can come here in the first place.

03:16A lot of these people in prison now may have come in legally under the Conservative government.

03:21It's not to say that all of them in jail came over on dinghy.

03:25That's not true.

03:26Yes, some will have come in legally, and that is why we need to massively increase the threshold for legal migration.

03:31Mistakes were made in the past.

03:32You're absolutely right to say that, and I acknowledge that.

03:35The threshold needs to be massively increased for people coming to the country legally.

03:38We want people with very high levels of skill.

03:41You know, research scientists, people working in finance, the top IT jobs, those kind of things.

03:46We don't want people coming here, you know, to work in takeaway restaurants or that kind of thing.

03:51And that is not what the legal system should be used for.

03:54That needs to be stopped, frankly.

03:56And we need to have a very hard cap on legal migration, voted for by Parliament each year at a very, very low level,

04:03just to stop these large numbers, frankly, of any nationality.

04:07But if we had, if we said, like, only, you know, scientists, financiers, people working in IT,

04:12only those people can come in legally, I think we'd find these problems with criminality pretty soon disappeared.

04:18And by the way, people who are here, who are not British citizens, commit a crime,

04:22every single one upon conviction and after their prison sentence should be kicked out.

04:27And that's why we need to repeal the Human Rights Act, because it's the Human Rights Act and the ECHR,

04:31which is stopping the government from deporting all of these foreign criminals.

04:35Lots of them end up staying here.

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