Efforts to control mass immigration are being held back by a ‘clearly inadequate’ budget and the institutional bias of the BBC, a report warns today. The Government dedicates just 0.25 per cent – or £1.8billion – of its annual expenditure to securing Britain’s borders and removing illegal immigrants and foreign criminals. Incredibly, this is six times less than the estimated £12billion budget for overseas aid. Migration Watch today claimed a shortage of resources was the main reason the Conservative Party failed in its attempt to cut net migration and to remove non-EU immigrants who moved to Britain, file photograph
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Government spends £1.8 billion a year in security British borders
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Britain spends an estimated £12 billion on foreign aid - six times more
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MigrationWatch claim efforts to control immigration are being hampered
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The think tank claims the budget is 'clearly inadequate' to cope
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