Those illegal migrant ‘rape’ booklets shame the British state

For years, the British public has been told that it is unequivocally racist to draw any connection between illegal immigration and sex offending. Yet this link – so often derided as a ‘far right’ conspiracy theory and a ‘racist dog whistle’ – has just been made by none other than the British government.

‘In the UK, both people must say “yes” to sex’, states a Home Office-produced ‘guide for asylum seekers’. ‘Child abuse is a serious crime in the UK’, explains another booklet, titled ‘Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK’. This one informs illegal migrants that they must not have ‘sex or sexual contact with a child under 16’, ‘physically hurt a child’ or ‘cut or harm a girl’s genitals (female genital mutilation)’. This ‘promotional material’ – to use the Home Office’s unfortunate choice of words – was released on Wednesday.

These revelations ought to shame the government, and discredit the progressives who have supported the complete breakdown of Britain’s borders. The fact that most recent asylum seekers to the UK have not been women and children, but rather young men often hailing from deeply misogynistic countries, has been the source of protests across the nation. These uprisings, we hardly need reminding, were treated by most of the media, the establishment and the police as outbreaks of white nationalism. Yet here we have the government admitting the very thing that citizens from Epping, Nuneaton and Crowborough have been telling them all along. It is a staggering hypocrisy.

Serious questions must be asked of Andy Burnham and the Labour government. Why, if the young men arriving illegally need advice on ‘consent’, ‘domestic abuse’, ‘child abuse’ and ‘harassment’, must everyone in the nation ‘play their part’ in accommodating them, as Burnham has insisted? How safe are the residents of, say, Piddington – the Oxfordshire village with a population of 400 residents, soon to host 1,250 male asylum seekers at the neighbouring Bicester Garrison? And does Angela Rayner stand by her comments, made only last week in the wake of the arrival of a 48-foot dinghy carrying 230 illegal immigrants, that it is the UK’s duty to accept these ‘desperate, vulnerable’ people?

The UK is in the midst of a disturbing outbreak of sexual crimes committed by asylum seekers. We do not know the extent of it, as the government is taking legal action to prevent the publication of the relevant statistics. Yet the pattern has been obvious to any literate, mildly curious member of the public for some time. This week, an illegal immigrant from Eritrea was found guilty of raping a male pensioner repeatedly behind a church in north London. In April, three illegal immigrants were convicted of gang-raping a young woman in Brighton. In December, two Afghan teenagers – both illegal immigrants – were jailed for raping a 15-year-old in Warwickshire. Last summer’s protests in Epping, Essex, were sparked when an Ethiopian illegal immigrant sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl within days of arriving in the UK.

The list – the above is far from exhaustive – is now as long as your arm. The men who committed these vile crimes bear ultimate responsibility. But there is another culprit, and it has just confessed its guilt. It is the British state, which, while aware of the danger of illegal immigration, continues to facilitate it.

It must be clear that there is no legal or humane argument for the level of illegal immigration Britain is currently absorbing. The international law that modern Labour retains its cretinous devotion to is, on this point, clear: asylum seekers should make their claims in the first safe country they reach. And that country is not Britain. The numbers of illegal migrants living in the UK – receiving accommodation, legal advice and living allowances from the British taxpayer – are a burden the nation cannot afford. And the threat to the public – particularly women – is not one that any moral government or media commentator should countenance.

Of all the insults suffered by the British public at the hands of recent governments, their failure to do anything about illegal immigration remains the most egregious. Not reducing it or spreading it around the country, but ending it, has been the clear wish of the people at repeated elections. These booklets – politely asking individuals who have no right to be in the UK not to rape the natives – must be the final straw.