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Siobhan Whyte criticizes Government’s handling of migrant crisis (Image: Getty)
Rhiannon Whyte’s heartbroken mother admitted the Sunday Express investigation into Labour’s deportation crisis has made her “even angrier about the state of our borders”.
At least 100,000 rejected asylum seekers are feared living in Britain illegally because they have not been deported despite losing all their applications.
Around 2,000 people who first sought asylum in 2010 are still in the UK.
More than 26,000 of them have been here for at least a decade, despite losing their cases, according to Home Office figures.
Separate figures published this week suggested there were more than 400,000 immigrants living in the UK illegally. This includes people who are unable to apply for asylum, fugitives and people whose visas have expired.
Rhiannon’s mother Siobhan Whyte told the Sunday Express: “They deny everything.
“If they’ve lost count, how will we know?
“We need to know who is coming to our country, we need to know their criminal history because they may have committed crimes in their own country.
“They’ve been through all these countries and they’re coming here. If they’re detained at the border, they can be sent back.”
“If they are real refugees, they have documents. Illegals throw away their documents. Why?
“They don’t want to be detected.
“The state of our borders makes me even more angry. Shabana Mahmood and others are giving millions to France and they still keep coming.
“Why? Why are these allowed?”
According to research by the Oxford University Migration Observatory, a total of 108,022 people who refused protection after seeking asylum between 2010 and 2024 were not removed.
But the real number is almost certain to be even higher because the data seen by the Sunday Express only dates back to 2010.
Sudanese asylum seeker Deng Majek stabbed mother-of-one Rhiannon 23 times in a frenzied 90-second attack after following the 27-year-old to Bescot Road railway station in Walsall in 2024.
He died in hospital three days later. No motive could be determined as to why Majek attacked him.
Majek had come to the UK on a small boat about three months before the attack and applied for asylum.
The Sudanese devil grabbed Rhiannon’s phone and threw it into the river.
After the attack, immigrants were seen dancing and laughing in the parking lot of their hotel, which increased the anger.
He was sentenced to 29 years in prison in January.
Ms White added: “I have no confidence in this Government at all. I’ve reached out to Starmer. I’ve reached out to Shabana Mahmood and I’m just being ignored.”
“I will not be silenced.”
