October 28, 2009 - By BNP News

Important parts of a 2001 Home Office report linking immigration and rising crime were deliberately censored by the Labour Party regime in order to hide the truth from the public.

The report — which should have been made public in full, funded as it was by the taxpayer — was titled “Migration, A Social and Economic Analysis” and submitted to the Prime Minister’s office prior to being released.

Terrified of its contents, which specifically linked organised criminality with higher immigration, the Labour regime ordered the relevant parts of the report cut out before publication.

The entire section headed “Criminal behaviour” was removed. It said, amongst other things, that “Migration has opened up new opportunities for organised crime.”

The report went on to say that foreign nationals formed a higher proportion of the prison population than of the general population because so many were caught smuggling drugs at ports and airports.

Furthermore, it said that there is “emerging evidence that the circumstances in which asylum seekers are living is leading to criminal offences, including fights and begging.”

The exact parts which were censored were the following:

“Criminal Behaviour

There are three ways in which migrant criminality may differ from that of the general population:

* The international criminal who travels across borders to pursue criminal activity, for whom screening at ports of entry is increasingly the focus of international cooperation between police forces to detect on entry.

* Organised crime identified with a particular migrant group, including commercial fraud and trafficking in drugs, in illegal migrants and in women — also the focus of attention by police and immigration staff.

* Crime associated with conditions of migration and reception, including recovery of debts by migrant-smugglers, marriage rackets, breaches of immigration control and crime associated with the migrant’s circumstances (lack of work, hostel living conditions).

Migration has opened up new opportunities for organised crime. Data is necessarily tentative, but it is estimated that the global profit from trafficking illegal migrants is $5-7 billion.

We have no data on trafficking to the UK (the Home Office estimates “thousands”) but examples from abroad are illustrative. Some 750,000 migrants from the former USSR entered Israel in the Nineties and £2-5 billion of Russian organised crime money is estimated by police to have been invested in Israel between 1991 and 1998.

The illegal migration of 600,000 Fukienese Chinese to the USA yielded an estimated $3.2 billion profit to the criminal gangs and was followed by “institutionalised Fukienese crime with its services and predation.”

This extract is taken from the “Preliminary Report on Migration”, 11 July 2000, written by officials in Tony Blair’s Performance and Innovation Unit. This section was omitted from the public version of the report, “Migration, A Social and Economic Analysis”, published by the Cabinet Office in 2001.