Albanians make up the largest group of boat migrants arriving on the English coast. They are also the most criminal of the migrants.
There is no war in Albania, in fact more and more Brits are travelling there on holiday. Yet the British are unable to get rid of the illegal migrants travelling the other way.
As Document recently reported, Albanian migrants are imprisoned far more often than British citizens.
Among British citizens, including naturalised migrants, the figures show that 14 out of 10,000 are in prison.
But among foreigners, the figures are up to 16 times higher. Albanians are by far the most criminal, with 232 out of 10,000 in prison.
The British have long tried to get rid of illegal migrants from Albania. In May 2023, Document wrote about how the British paid Albanians to go home, but it did little good as they were back on British soil a short time later.
Another method is to utilise the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
An Albanian criminal who sneaked back into the UK after being deported has won the right of abode under the ECHR, writes The Telegraph.
Ardit Binaj (32) was released six months after serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for burglary, and deported as part of a prisoner transfer agreement with Albania
A few months later, he was back in the UK to be with his Lithuanian girlfriend, who had a residence permit. They had children and got married, allowing him to argue that deporting him again would violate his right to family life under Article 8 of the ECHR.
Binaj was successful in court.
The judge accepted that it would be “unduly harsh” for her and her son to be separated from Binaj and that she might not be able to get appropriate medical treatment in Albania.
The case will revitalise calls for the UK to opt out or seek reform of the ECHR. When Theresa May was Home Secretary, she claimed that another illegal migrant escaped deportation because he had a cat.
Boris Johnson recently called for membership of the ECHR to be decided in a referendum. The Conservative Party leadership candidates have differing views on how the UK should relate to the ECHR.
Robert Jenrick has promised to take the UK out of the convention. Tom Tugendhat has said he is willing to leave the ECHR, while Kemi Badenoch has said she would not rule out leaving the ECHR, but that alone would not solve “the root of the problem”. James Cleverly is not in favour of doing so.
– The convention has been stretched so far that it has become a charter for criminals, says Jenrick.
– It has repeatedly offered loopholes to dangerous foreign criminals who threaten the British public, allowing them to avoid deportation.
– Article 8 reform is a fantasy. The only way we can put an end to farcical cases like this is by abandoning the Convention and guaranteeing our own rights.
James Cleverly was Home Secretary at the time of the judgement and disagreed that deportation would be “unduly harsh”. A spokesperson for incumbent Home Secretary Yvette Cooper believes Labour will improve the situation.
– Foreigners who commit offences should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will ensure that they are deported and that the rules are respected and enforced.
– We have already begun to implement a sharp increase in immigration enforcement and return activity to remove people who do not have the right to stay in the UK, and 3,000 people have already been returned since the new government came to power.
Another spokesperson claims that the number of migrants allowed to stay has been reduced by 20 percent since Labour took over.
With boat migrants continuing to pour across the English Channel, it remains to be seen whether Labour can deliver on Starmer’s promise to “smash the gangs”. But after 14 years of empty promises from the Tories, there’s unlikely to be much optimism among ordinary Britons.
