Now can we fight peril of crime invaders?
BIT by bit the Left-wing political establishment is being forced to own up to the catastrophic social problems caused by the uncontrolled immigration of the past decade.
Attempts to stifle public debate by throwing around accusations that sceptics about immigration are bigots who wish to “play the race card” are unravelling in the face of undeniable reality.
A couple of weeks ago Immigration Minister Liam Byrne acknowledged the strain placed on public services and community cohesion by the scale of the influx into Britain. Pressures on social housing have also at last been admitted even though Tony Blair for many years denied there was any connection between immigration and housing shortages.
Even the politically correct BBC yesterday gave major coverage to the problem of electoral fraud, citing postal ballot irregularities in Birmingham – although it comically failed to highlight that this is a problem almost exclusively associated with communities hailing from the Indian sub-continent.
Now, finally, those in authority are confessing to their greatest taboo, something I described on this very page 18 months ago, just after the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, as their “dirty little secret”: the central role being played by incomers from backward, uncivilised countries in the explosion of gang crime in Britain.
A Metropolitan Police report has finally confirmed that illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers from the world’s trouble spots are causing mayhem on our streets. Brutalised young men from war-torn countries such as Somalia, Angola and Kosovo are leading British youths into murderous copycat behaviour.
It seems obvious that such people would be unlikely to become model citizens but this is the first time a major public body has put that in writing. The Scotland Yard report says: “There is an indication from both police intelligence and the voluntary sector that there is an increase in young people with significant post-traumatic stress resulting from witnessing and being involved in significant violent situations prior to arrival in the UK. These people appear to have a disproportionate negative impact on their peer groups.”
In other words, youths from countries where life is cheap are devaluing the worth of a life on Britain’s streets. Perhaps now the Home Office will finally seek to discharge its duty of public protection by beginning to compile and publish statistics on crime carried out by foreigners and compiling policies to combat this trend.
As Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of MigrationWatch UK, the immigration-sceptic think tank which has so often run rings around the Government, told me yesterday: “I would be extremely interested in analysing official figures on this aspect of immigration, if only official figures existed.” But because they do not, those who wish to investigate and expose this problem have had to rely on anecdotal evidence.
We noted the role of Somali failed asylum seekers in the murder of PC Beshenivsky in Bradford and the leading part played by failed Kosovan asylum seeker Indrit Krasniqi in the rape and murder of Mary Ann Leneghan in Reading.
We clocked the christening day murder in Peckham committed by Angolan teenager Roberto Malasi, a depraved individual who killed again two weeks later.
Then by chance some figures did emerge. When the Home Office became embroiled in a scandal over its failure to deport foreign prisoners who had served their terms it was forced to admit that up to one in seven of all inmates of British jails were foreigners – about 12,000 people in total.
Our suspicions had been confirmed. In January this newspaper submitted a dossier to Parliament’s Left-wing dominated Joint Committee On Human Rights about Britain’s chaotic asylum and immigration system. The committee was conducting an inquiry into alleged infringements of the human rights of asylum seekers. We were seeking to defend the human rights of Britons from all ethnic backgrounds.
In words strikingly in tune with those used by Scotland Yard this week our submission told the committee: “It should come as no surprise if asylum seekers commit disproportionate amounts of crime. Most are young men from chaotic and violent countries, many of which have no tradition of respect for women’s rights.”
We noted also that Mr Byrne had admitted that figures on the involvement of asylum seekers in crime were “not collated centrally” and had claimed they could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
David Green, director of the Civitas think tank yesterday said official “squeamishness” was still preventing this problem being properly dealt with. “We are importing 15, 16, 17 and 18-year-olds brought up in countries with an anarchistic warlord culture in which carrying knives and guns is routine. We are asking for trouble if we don’t confront this issue,” he said.
He is right. Despite Mr Byrne’s weasel words, the only disproportionate cost involved is this: the burden being borne by the British public because of the Government’s failure to confront awkward facts which expose its happy-clappy multiculturalism as an utterly failed ideology.
Many people from our established ethnic minority communities are now at the forefront of those who feel uncontrolled immigration is putting them in danger. A Labour MP told me yesterday: “I have an Afro-Caribbean constituent who was born and brought up here who came to me the other day and tore me off a strip about the activities of Jamaican Yardie gangs in his neighbourhood. This is not a matter of white against black but of the law-abiding British public as a whole attempting to maintain civilised values against brutal and ruthless foreign criminals.”
It is high time the do-gooding political establishment, which remains obsessed with our supposed obligations to the citizens of other countries, stood up for the citizens of Britain and pulled up the drawbridge against the criminal invaders once and for all.
