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The British public has consistently voted against mass migration, yet the Home Office continues to award hundreds of thousands of long-term entry visas every year. The Centre for Migration Control works to highlight the fiscal, social, and cultural costs associated with this failure of policy — and to make the case for fundamental change.
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New polling commissioned by the Centre for Migration Control finds that 69% of British adults want all foreign nationals convicted of a crime to be deported, while a majority want the government to release official figures on migrant crime.
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Britain has sent over 100,000 criminal conviction alerts to EU member states (excluding Ireland) since 2025, new research by the Centre for Migration Control shows. Since the start of 2023, there have been over 260,000 notifications sent abroad regarding EU nationals (excluding Ireland) convicted in Britain. In 2025, an average of 165 criminal conviction notifications were sent per day to EU member states (exc Ireland).
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At least three quarters of a million migrants from the 'small boat nations' of Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Eritrea have obtained citizenship of an EU Member State since free movement ended in Britain at the end of 2020, new analysis by the Centre for Migration Control reveals.
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In the last fifteen years the number of households living in social housing has risen. But that growth has not been evenly distributed — a striking share of the increase has come from households headed by people who are not UK or Irish nationals.
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Gloucestershire County Council's Homes for Refugees scheme offers £600 per month to house a refugee. A freedom of information request reveals just 16 households signed up — and none at all in 2025 or 2026.
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Households containing at least one foreign national received £11.920bn in Universal Credit last year, new research by the Centre for Migration Control can reveal. That is a 25% increase on the £9.533bn paid out in 2024, and a 57% increase on the £7.6bn that was reportedly paid out in 2023. In December 2025, £1.021bn was awarded to foreign national households - equivalent to £32.9m every day or £230.5m a week. A total of £7.669bn was paid in Universal Credit to foreign national households where an individual was not-in work. This is equivalent to the total income tax and national insurance paid by 1,036,000 British resident full-time workers.
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