Farage: I’ll strip pensions from civil servants who let in foreign rapists
Nigel Farage has vowed to scrap the gold-plated pensions of civil servants deemed responsible for allowing migrant sex offenders into the country.
The Reform UK leader was sworn in following reports that Home Office officials were accepting claims to reduce the 150,000 asylum backlog, regardless of applicants’ backgrounds.
Under the plans, if Farage becomes Prime Minister, any civil servant found responsible for allowing entry into the country to a foreign national who later rapes or sexually assaults a British citizen could be prosecuted and their State pensions seized, with the proceeds donated to victims’ charities.
Official figures show convictions of foreign nationals for sexual offenses, including rape, have risen by 62 per cent in four years and one in seven crimes is now committed by non-Brits. There have been a number of high-profile cases this month, including two 17-year-old Afghan asylum seekers who pleaded guilty to the brutal rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa.
Mr Farage told The Mail on Sunday that the Reform administration would focus on members of the Civil Service ‘blob’ who had failed to weed out dangerous asylum seekers.
He said: ‘Any officer who knowingly allows migrants to enter the UK knowing they pose a risk will be held accountable for their actions.
‘I will not allow the safety of our women and girls to be sacrificed on the altar of misguided liberalism.’
Reform UK sources have highlighted figures showing, for example, that Afghan citizens are 20 times more likely to be convicted of sexual offenses than British citizens.
Mr Farage told The Mail on Sunday that the Reform administration will focus on members of the Civil Service ‘blob’ who have failed to weed out dangerous asylum seekers
Amin Abedi Mofrad, 35, a small boat migrant who raped a 15-year-old boy in an alley on Valentine’s Day
A source claimed both the Conservative and Labor governments ‘betrayed the British people by deliberately concealing sex crimes’.
Last month, an experienced caseworker in the UK asylum system was quoted as saying: ‘I think one day I’ll turn on the TV news and there will be a man I gave asylum to who will have raped or murdered a young girl, just like my daughters.’
He pointed to the system rather than individual authorities allowing dangerous asylum seekers into the country, describing it as a ‘crazy merry-go-round’ where tens of thousands of applicants or ‘clients’ are considered, often without any identification documents.
The caseworker said: ‘Most people I assess lie. Even if they eventually decide to deport, it is mostly on a voluntary basis. Very few of them can be sent home; The Ministry of Internal Affairs does not have the resources or will to do this. They just disappear.’
This month, reporting on the Leamington Spa rape was restricted because a defense lawyer said the victim’s video of the attack was so disturbing it would risk uproar if the public saw it. Additionally, Sultani Bakatash, also an Afghan citizen, was accused of raping two young girls in Bolton, while Dawajan Ahmadzai, also an Afghan citizen, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a child twice.
A senior Home Office case worker was disciplined for refusing to approve an Afghan man’s application; because he had been arrested several times for indecent exposure in a children’s playground.
A source from Reform England said: ‘It is illegal to grant refugee status under immigration rules to people who pose a danger to the UK.
‘However, under huge pressure from the Labor Government, Home Office caseworkers are approving asylum claims even where individuals have been accused of offences. A Reform government will hold Home Office caseworkers and managers accountable.
The reform government will create a new criminal offense of “dishonest determination of an asylum claim”, punishable by up to two years in prison. ‘We will stop public service pension payments and, in the worst cases, cut pensions, donating employer contributions to victim charities.’
A government spokesman said: ‘Officers carry out vital work keeping the UK borders secure and processing returns. We have removed nearly 50,000 people who have no right to live on British soil, and asylum returns are up 27 per cent on the previous year. We will not allow foreign criminals and illegal immigrants to abuse our laws.
‘We are reforming human rights laws and changing the broken appeals system so we can increase deportations.’
