
Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
And you've made the mistake of assuming most of those 600,000 are coming in on boats.
Some immigration stats might be of help here. In 2022 the vast majority of immigration into the UK came from non-EU countries. Immigration to the UK from the EU has nosedived since Brexit (surprise, surprise). Of non-EU immigration:
39% came to the UK to study
25% came to the UK to work with visas
19% came to the UK for humanitarian reasons (this was up significantly from previous years due to the war in Ukraine)
8% were asylum seekers (76,000)
Around 40,000 arrived in boats and 90% of them were granted asylum status.