According to a new study from the UK, foreigners are three times more likely to be arrested for sexual offenses than British citizens. At the same time, a European group is identified as more crime-prone than individuals from the Middle East and North Africa.

During the first ten months of 2024, the British police arrested over 9,000 foreign nationals for sexual offenses. This group accounted for just over a quarter of the estimated 35,000 arrests for sexual offenses during the period.

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Figures from the Centre for Migration Control based on data from police forces, the Home Office, and the Office for National Statistics show that foreigners were 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for sexual offenses than Britons, based on a frequency of almost 165 arrests per 100,000 of the immigrant population compared to 48 per 100,000 for Britons.

Even when it comes to crime in general, foreign nationals were arrested at twice the rate of Britons. While foreigners make up nine percent of the population, they accounted for 16.1 percent of the total number of arrests.

Albanians the worst

The list of the most commonly occurring groups in the arrests is topped by Albanians, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians, Congolese, Moroccans, and Somalis.

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A total of 48 nationalities had a higher arrest rate per 1,000 of their population than British suspects.

Immigration a huge problem

The statistics are released at the same time as the British state and institutions are accused of concealing immigrant crime, and there are demands for greater transparency in the scandals involving young British girls being sexually exploited by immigrant gangs while the authorities remained inactive.

Robert Bates is the founder and research director of the Centre for Migration Control.

“There shouldn’t be a single foreign national in the UK breaking our laws. Not a single one. Yet somehow we have over 10,000 foreign nationals in UK prisons, many more on probation or released into society, and a carousel of repeat offenders that we can’t deport,” he says.

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“If the Home Office was genuinely committed to the welfare of the British public, it would without hesitation seek to address this problem by introducing much stricter visa protocols for nationalities with a disproportionately high propensity to engage in criminality.”

Uproar against immigrant violence

In 2024, violent uprisings broke out in several places in the UK in response to the ever-present and escalating immigrant violence and Islamization.

A 17-year-old Rwandan who murdered three children and injured eight became the last straw for many Britons.

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