Exclusive: More than 100,000 failed asylum seekers are feared to be living in Britain illegally because they haven’t been deported, the Sunday Express can reveal.
Some 2,000 people who first sought sanctuary in 2010 are still in the UK.
And more than 26,000 have been here for at least a decade despite losing their cases, according to Home Office figures.
In total, 108,022 people refused protection after claiming asylum between 2010 and 2024 have not been removed.
One in four people who first claimed asylum in 2010 still hadn’t been returned by March 2026.
Some 26,850 failed asylum seekers who first claimed asylum between 2010 and 2016 haven’t been returned.
And then the Channel migrant crisis began… and the scandal of asylum seekers switching from work, study and visitor visas.
In short, there’s an extraordinary deportation backlog that is growing at an alarming rate.
More on this to come.