Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Sometimes because they have distant family or friends who are already here. Sometimes it is because they know of people from their own area are in the UK. We get a decent percentage of Middle Eastern immigrants in the same way that France gets quite a lot of African immigrants. People from different areas try to get into certain countries. It's not as if everyone is heading to the UK.
There's also the case of being able to get work in the UK. There are plenty of unscrupulous bosses willing to take on illegal immigrants as they can pay them far less than a minimum wage worker. Oddly enough, stopping this method of making these bosses more wealthy has not been a priority for this government.