19,950 Indian “students” have poured into Britain in just two months since Labour’s much-vaunted “points-based immigration crackdown” — triple the number last year and boosting Britain’s total student population by five percent in eight weeks.

The shocking figures emerged after the producers of the BBC Radio 5 live Donal MacIntyre programme submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office after the UK Border Agency had denied that there had been any increase.

“Student” visas have previously been identified as one of the biggest legal immigration scams. Third World immigrants have “enrolled” with bogus colleges up and down the country. Once in Britain, these colleges provide the cover for illegal permanent immigration.

Several suspected Islamist terrorists arrested recently were “students” at some of these bogus colleges. The Government announced a “crackdown” as part of its “points-based immigration system” which it promised would control the influx.

The new figures have shown the points system to be yet another lie. According to the BBC show, between June and August 2008, that is before the new system for students came into force, the British High Commissions in Mumbai, New Delhi and Dhaka issued 6,771 student visas.

During the same period this year, under the new points-based immigration system, the three offices issued 19,950 visas.

Given that there are about 413,430 students in total in Britain, this represents an increase of five percent over those few weeks. This statistic by itself makes it impossible for all these “students” to be genuine.

When the points-based immigration system was introduced, the then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith promised that the new system would “raise the bar” and lead to “fewer migrants coming to the UK from outside the EU.”

The BBC reported that immigration officers had warned of a massive increase in arrivals, and that a “significant number of those arriving on student visas had previously been denied entry to the UK, and they suspected that many had come here to work and not study.”

One Heathrow-based whistleblower told the BBC that “many so-called students could not speak English, and knew nothing about the courses they claimed to be studying.”

The BBC has also released a video taken in secret by an immigration official of the long queues of “students” who line up each day at Heathrow airport, waiting to clear passport control to enter Britain. This video can be viewed on the BBC website by clicking here.