Asylum seekers ‘are SEVEN times more likely to be arrested than everyone else on Britain’s railways’ as MP warns our open borders have made country ‘dangerous’

Official figures show that asylum seekers are seven times more likely to be arrested than the rest of the population.

Last year, 7.88 people for every 10,000 asylum seekers were arrested on UK railways.

By comparison, the equivalent rate for everyone else was 1.07.

Ministers were today called on to ‘abolish the entire asylum system’ with UK support Transport Police statistics obtained through a freedom of information request.

Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe, founder of the Restore Britain think tank, told the Daily Mail that the Conservatives, ‘many of whom are now in the Reform party’, were responsible for importing so many refugees into the country; this process was ‘accelerated by the Labor government’.

He added: ‘Any immigrant who enters illegally should be detained and deported.

‘Then we should abolish the entire asylum system. This is how we make our transport system safe again.’

Last month, an Iraqi asylum seeker was jailed for groping and kissing a 20-year-old boy after spotting him at a train station in Crawley on September 22.

Hawre Mohamed, 27, jumped the ticket barriers and boarded the same Thameslink train as the student returning home from university, telling her: ‘I want to have sex with you’.

Shocking CCTV footage shows him grinning at the young woman and giving her a thumbs up before the attack.

He spent the day trying to approach random women, the court heard.

Another shocking incident was when a Sudanese migrant attacked two train attendants and threatened to ‘teach them a lesson’ after jumping the station barrier.

Karam Abdulkarim-Mohamed, 30, called guards who stopped him at Reading train station in January ‘scum’. He punched one man in the head twice and spat at another.

BTP polices the UK’s railways, including the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Midland Metro tram system, Croydon Tramlink, Tyne and Wear Underground and the IFS cloud cable car.

showed data It was stated that 81 refugees were detained arrested By civil servants in England and Wales in the calendar year to November 2025.

In September, Iraqi asylum seeker Hawre Mohamed was seen on CCTV footage grinning at a young woman and giving her a thumbs up before launching a sexual assault.

Another shocking incident involved Sudanese immigrant Karam Abdulkarim-Mohamed, who attacked two train attendants in January and threatened to “teach them a lesson” after jumping the station barrier.

The Home Office told the Daily Mail that it does not publicly disclose the total number of asylum seekers, but its data shows there are currently 103,000 asylum seekers supported to live in England and Wales.

Using this population figure allowed us to calculate the arrest rate.

This rate could be lower if there were a significant number of asylum seekers not supported by the Home Office, but this data is not publicly available.

For the rest of the population, 6,619 people were arrested.

This rate was calculated using official Office for National Statistics (ONS) population estimates for England and Wales for mid-2024, giving a figure of 61.7 million.

But about 95 percent of the arrests BTP made in 2025 were missing the nationality part, meaning the rates could actually be very different. But this is the best publicly available data on the subject.

There have been calls for Labor to publish more data on immigration crime, but it has so far failed to do so, despite promising to do so last April.

Some have called for Britain to increase transparency on immigration crime by officially publishing league tables embarrassing the nationalities guilty of the highest rates, as Denmark and some US states have already done.

Academics at the Oxford Immigration Observatory, Britain’s most respected institution examining the issue, have said in the past that ‘asylum seekers are more likely to commit crimes’.

They argue that this is partly because asylum seekers tend to be young men, and young men are more likely to commit crimes.

Other factors include the trauma of the journey to Britain, poor mental health in general and socioeconomic status. However, our data cannot explain all of these competing factors.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs was contacted for comment.

A spokesman for BTP said: ‘As a police force we are obliged to comply with the law and every report of crime we receive is dealt with objectively.

‘When someone is suspected of committing a criminal offence, officers will continue to make arrests where necessary to protect the traveling public and keep the railway safe.’

BPT also noted that it is almost impossible to draw conclusions from its own data, as the nationality field is 95 percent empty in 2025.

It was also noted that not all arrested suspects are guilty of a crime, some may only have reasonable grounds for suspicion.

And action is not taken by arresting all suspects; For example, a person suspected of committing a crime may be invited to a voluntary interview.

The data does not detail the nationality of asylum seekers, but the most common asylum seekers through September 2025 include Pakistani (11 percent), Eritrean (8 percent), Iranian (7 percent), Afghan (7 percent) and Bangladeshi (6 percent).

Data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs shows that 95 percent of those arriving by small boats applied for asylum.