2024-10-08 08:04:59
The largest number of illegal migrants live in the UK.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, this was reported by The Daily Telegraph newspaper with reference to a study by experts at Oxford University.
According to them, there are up to 745 thousand illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom, which is almost two and a half times higher than in France, where there are about 300 thousand illegally arrived migrants. The second place in this indicator is occupied by Germany, where up to 700 thousand illegal migrants live.
Since the beginning of the year, 26.6 thousand illegal immigrants have arrived in the UK on inflatable boats across the English Channel, which is 5% higher than the 2023 figures for the same period. On October 5, 973 people entered the kingdom illegally – a record high daily figure this year.
The problem of illegal immigration worsened in the UK after the country left the European Union, although this topic was one of the main reasons for Brexit. Since 2018, about 130 thousand illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel into the kingdom. The Labor Party government, formed after the parliamentary elections on July 4, promised to strengthen cooperation with EU states to prevent the flow of illegal migrants into the UK.