More than 144,000 bogus asylum seekers will get to stay in Britain not because of any legitimate reason but simply because their numbers have overwhelmed the system.

The shocking admission was made by UK Border Agency head Lin Homer before Parliament yesterday. She said that more than 63,000 of the 450,000 “historic cases” that were found to have slipped under the radar for years have now been told they can stay.

According to Ms Homer, many of these invaders have been in Britain for so long that the Home Office “would have difficulty trying to remove them on human rights grounds because they have effectively settled here.”

Ms Homer also said that officials working through the backlog have so far examined 197,500 cases, of which 32 percent had been approved as “genuine.” There are, of course, no genuine asylum seekers at all in Britain, as all have crossed dozens of safe countries to get to Britain. This has broken international law which only allows genuine asylum seekers to seek refuge in safe countries bordering the one they are fleeing.

Ms Homer also revealed that a further 7,000 of these swindlers have proven untraceable and their files have simply been “archived.”

If the approval rate of 32 percent for these swindlers holds, it means that at least 144,000 will be able to stay if the backlog is ever caught up.

Human rights laws will be the reason most cases were approved, either because it is ‘unsafe’ to return the asylum seekers or because they have been here so long they now have families and are protected under the right to family life.

In other words, the reasons they originally gave for seeking ‘asylum’ were unfounded. The only reason they have been able to stay and parasite off the British taxpayer is because of the mad ‘Human rights Act’ introduced by the Government to bring British law into line with demands from the European Union.

In June it was revealed that British taxpayers pay up at least £73 million every year to house and feed failed ‘asylum seekers’ who “refuse to leave” and who the Government is too weak willed to deport.

Almost 10,000 failed ‘asylum seekers’ received an average of £150 a week in accommodation and food allowances while they appealed against deportation. The figure is 20 times the £4 million spent on such services four years ago. The bill is blamed on a “backlog of failed claimants, who cannot be removed.”

* It would have been better if these swindlers were not even allowed into Britain in the first place, as Mr Nick Griffin MEP suggested.