Civil servants could have their pensions forfeited if they allow sex-offending migrants into Britain under a Reform UK government. If Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister, civil servants may be prosecuted if they are found responsible for allowing a foreign national into the UK who poses a risk.
This comes after reports show that Home Office officials have granted asylum claims regardless of the background of the applicant in a bid to tackle the backlog of 150,000. Mr Farage said that a Reform government would crack down on the employees who failed to flag dangerous asylum seekers.
“Any civil servant who wilfully allows migrants to enter the UK when they know that they pose a risk will be held accountable for their actions,” he told the Mail on Sunday.
“I will not allow the safety of our women and girls to be sacrificed on the altar of misguided liberalism.”
According to official data, convictions of foreign nations for sexual offences have risen by 62% in four years. One in seven of the overall crimes are now committed by non-Britons.
Writing for The Telegraph, Zia Yusuf, Reform’s head of policy, said: “Civil servants inside the Home Office have been waving through asylum claims for foreign nationals with known histories of sexual offending. That is not a grey area.
“Granting asylum to those who are likely to cause harm to British people is unlawful under the immigration rules. And yet it has been allowed to continue, unchecked, for years. The result is that the British state itself has become complicit in endangering women and girls. That must end.”
Juts last month, an experienced case worker in the asylum system was quoted as saying: “I think it’s inevitable that one day I will turn on the TV news and there will be some man I have granted asylum to and he will have raped or murdered a young girl just like my girls.”
She blamed the system opposed to the individual officials who work for the Civil Service, saying it is a “crazy carousel” in which tens of thousands of applicants were assessed without any identity documents.
A Reform UK source said: “It is unlawful to give individuals who pose a danger to the United Kingdom refugee status under the immigration rules.
“However, under huge pressure from the Labour Government, Home Office case workers are approving asylum claims even where individuals have been charged with crimes. A Reform government will hold accountable Home Office case workers and managers.
“A Reform government will create a new criminal offence of ‘dishonestly determining an asylum claim’, punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment. We will stop their civil service pension payments and ultimately strip pensions in the most egregious cases, donating employer contributions to victims charities.”
A government spokesman said: “Civil servants do vital work securing UK borders and processing returns. We have removed nearly 50,000 people with no right to be on British soil and asylum-related returns are up 27% compared to the previous year. We will not allow foreign criminals and illegal migrants to exploit our laws.
“We are reforming human rights laws and replacing the broken appeals system so we can scale up deportations.”
