Charity should not be funding arrivals that cost us dearly

THE Red Cross is paying the costs of hundreds of foreign families to rejoin asylum seekers in the UK — consider that the next time you make a donation to the charity.

- Tim Newark

It is, without question, part of the industry devoted to getting yet more immigrants into our country, regardless of the cost to our communities.

The charity has said it covered the travel costs of 288 families reunited with refugees last year. That comprised 959 people, including 702 children. Yet, councils are quite rightly finding housing asylum seekers an enormous imposition on their limited resources. They must find housing and schooling for these new arrivals.

Under current laws, these families can claim benefits and access already stretched social services without demonstrating an ability to work or even speak English. It is an open-ended commitment for British taxpayers that will endure for decades.

Indeed, the myth that open-door mass immigration is good for our economy has already imploded. Using government data, it has been estimated that the lifetime net cost to the UK is £234billion, or at least £8,400 per British household.

With 25,000 illegal migrants already in our country this year — a record 51% increase by this point last year — plus charities such as the Red Cross bringing in their families too, this is a significant tax burden we are handing on to our children.