Broken Borders: We Have 53,000 Missing Illegal Migrants. The Home Office Assigned Just 65 Staff To Find Them.
Rupert Lowe MP exposes the "national security emergency" inside the Home Office as figures reveal the enforcement team is virtually non-existent.
It sounds like a typo. It should be a typo. But it isn’t.
If you have ever worked in law enforcement, as our team has, then you will probably be just as shocked as we were.
Independent MP Rupert Lowe has exposed a detail so staggering it borders on satire: The Home Office has assigned just 65 staff to track down over 53,000 missing illegal migrants and 736 foreign national offenders.
Let’s do the maths on that….
That means every single enforcement officer is responsible for tracking down roughly 820 missing people. What chance does the enforcement officer have?
These are individuals who have no right to be here. Some are foreign criminals. They have vanished into the community, and the department tasked with finding them has deployed a team smaller than the staff of a medium-sized Tesco.
The figures were forced out of the Home Office following a relentless campaign by Lowe to hold the department to account.
“We know there are 53,298 missing illegal migrants, 736 missing foreign criminals. How many Home Office staff are involved in their capture? 65. Just 65. Pathetic,” Lowe posted on X.
He has now formally requested that the team be increased to 6,500 staff, warning that the current approach amounts to a national security emergency.
Watch the moment the Home Office Permanent Secretary was quizzed by Mr Lowe
This revelation follows a now-viral exchange between Lowe and Dame Antonia Romeo, the Home Office’s Permanent Secretary and official ‘Gender Champion’.
During a recent select committee hearing, the ‘Gender Champion’ was unable, or unwilling, to provide figures on how many illegal migrants had absconded. She referenced unpublished reports. She appeared to many to dodge and weave.
But Lowe didn’t let go. He obtained the internal figures himself.
“I have undeniable proof to show that ministers outright lied about the existence of this information,” he said. “I’m reliably informed that the Home Office is desperate for this to go away… We must not let that happen.”
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A “Dangerous” Failure
The confirmation that just 65 enforcement staff are assigned to locate tens of thousands of individuals has triggered outrage among former law enforcement professionals.
One retired officer told ESN Report:
“This isn’t just bad management. It’s dangerous. These people are supposed to be in custody, deported, or under control. Instead, they’ve disappeared and no one’s looking. And guess who has to deal with it when they commit a crime? The police on the street, not the civil servants in Whitehall.”
