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Be quiet! Can everyone please stop discussing migrant crime?
All you are doing is fueling fear and animosity, so if you could just remain silent, it will fade away.
Epping migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu, who was mistakenly releasedCredit: PA
According to Sir Keir Starmer, the real issue is our discussions about migrant crimeCredit: Getty
It seems to me that this is the official Government approach to addressing the increasing number of violent individuals who have entered Britain illegally.
This is certainly what the Prime Minister would prefer us to do.
If only people like me would stop discussing and writing about the wave of horrific incidents, then no one would realize it was happening, and they wouldn’t care anymore.
According to Sir Keir, the issue isn’t the tens of thousands of mostly young men entering our country each year illegally.
Threat to the Nation
It isn’t even the multi-billion-pound expense of housing and feeding them, nor the increasing number of crimes committed by some of them.
No, the REAL issue is our conversations about it.
If only the fearmongers and spreaders of misinformation would stop talking, it wouldn’t be in the headlines or all over social media.
No one would discuss it at the pub or at the school gates.
And there certainly wouldn’t be protests outside asylum hotels or frustrated voters demanding that the Prime Minister take action.
But how can anyone still pretend that this wave of migrant crime isn’t a real and pressing threat to the nation, something we have a duty to discuss and, more importantly, to take action against?
In the past week, we have seen not one, not two, not three, but FOUR alarming cases of crimes committed (or in one instance suspected to be) by migrants who entered our country illegally, whether by dinghy or hidden in the back of a lorry.
Last Friday, we learned about the Epping migrant sex offender from HMP Chelmsford, which led to a two-day manhunt and his subsequent deportation back to Ethiopia — in exchange for his compliance.
He had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl just days after his arrival.
We also witnessed the conviction of Sudanese migrant Deng Chol Majek for the murder of Rhiannon Whyte, during which he inflicted 23 brutal wounds in an unprovoked attack.
Then, there was the indictment of Afghan national Safi Dawood for allegedly injuring another man and a 14-year-old boy in a violent stabbing incident in Uxbridge.
And just days ago, a failed Somali asylum seeker, Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur (who had arrived here following a series of convictions across Europe), was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison for the random murder of father-of-three Gurvinder Johal while he was queuing inside a Lloyds bank in Derby.
And these four cases are merely the ones that have been reported; how many more crimes remain uncovered?
Just because we have our own wrongdoers, it doesn’t mean that importing thousands more from abroad is a wise decision.
Julia Hartley-Brewer
It’s not just the increasing number of attacks or their grotesque brutality.
It’s the unpredictable risk we all seem to face as we go about our daily lives — going to work, sitting in a park, taking the train, or running errands.
Of course, not every illegal arrival by boat or lorry poses a threat to us, but how many is too many?
In the first six months of this year alone, 339 court cases — including sexual assaults and violent crimes — involved a suspect who was a foreign national residing in an asylum hotel.
Yet, it’s clear that many more cases exist where the criminal's asylum status has not been disclosed.
So how many does the Prime Minister consider an acceptable level before he takes necessary action to stop this ongoing crisis?
Heartbreaking Grief
How many rapes, stabbings, and murders by migrant arrivals are too many?
Because for the majority of us, that number is ZERO.
Yes, statistically most crimes in Britain are committed by our own homegrown criminals.
But just because we have our own offenders, it doesn’t mean it’s wise to import thousands more from abroad.
The Government can continue to hope that we will lose interest in discussing migrant crime, allowing them to pretend it’s not happening.
But that won’t eliminate the fear of being attacked that so many women and girls experience daily on our streets.
And it won’t alleviate the profound grief felt by the families of those brutally murdered in random attacks.
We must continue to discuss
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