Home Office officials are being hoodwinked by fraudulent asylum seekers who are falsely claiming to be from war-torn Eritrea, a Mail investigation can reveal.
In several video calls, seen by the newspaper, migrants brazenly boasted about how they obtained asylum in the UK by pretending to be persecuted by Eritrea’s authoritarian regime.
Instead, they come from Ethiopia, the neighbouring—and much safer—East African country.
MailOnline discovered a network of thousands sharing huge swathes of training material to convince case officers they are from Eritrea—because it has a 99 percent success rate for asylum claims.
Even though only 3.6 million people are living in Eritrea, throughout the past three years, they have accounted for the fourth-largest group of asylum seekers in the UK.
One Ethiopian migrant, Michaele Abraha, an Uber driver living in London, has racked up tens of thousands of views on TikTok where he brags of how he was given asylum in the UK by pretending to be Eritrean—and teaches others how to do the same.
The MoS provided evidence to support Abraha’s assertions, and the Home Office said that it had now opened an inquiry against him.
Robert Jenrick, the former Immigration Minister, described the Mail’s bombshell findings as ‘a national security emergency’.
Mr Jenrick said, ‘Sir Keir Starmer has surrendered to the people smuggling gangs. Instead of beefing up plans to remove illegal boat migrants in a matter of days, as my amendments supported by colleagues would have done, he granted them an amnesty. Now it’s open season and these chancers are taking our country for a ride.
‘This is a national security emergency and the British public are rightly sick of it. It’s got to be stopped.’
The investigation shows how:
Abraha tells migrants to pretend to be under 18 to help speed up their asylum claim and explains how to ‘act like a child.
Ethiopians are exchanging training manuals on how to pose as Eritreans in a 3,500-member Telegram channel. These include documentation and images of famous structures, various locations, money, and traditional attire.
One Ethiopian migrant said 12 other Ethiopians were granted asylum using the blueprint of his asylum claim.
Eritrea has been called ‘the North Korea of Africa’ because of its indefinite conscription into the army, which the UN says amounts to forced labour or even slavery, as well as its torturous detention system and systemic repression of basic freedoms.
But while parts of Ethiopia have suffered conflicts, poverty, and severe droughts, it is Africa’s fastest-growing economy and hosts more than 823,000 refugees, many of whom are from Eritrea.
When will our elected officials realise they are being duped? The British population is already aware of this, as anyone who is truly in need of asylum would apply in the first nation they arrive in, but naturally, they are flocking to the UK because everything is provided at no cost, and while we keep paying, they don’t care!
The issue is that our politicians are too preoccupied with enriching themselves and defrauding the people of Britain.
There are no legitimate asylum applications because if they were sincere, they wouldn’t be returning home for vacations and then getting married to their fiancée after receiving a British passport. Asylum always seemed to me to indicate that your life was in jeopardy!
The basic tenet of any society should be the rapid dissolution of the governing party if it is unable to defend its people or uphold the integrity of the sovereign nations or boundaries.
We are trapped with immigrants, despite our government’s open encouragement of their entry as they continue to transform the UK. The British people could rebel, but because the majority of us are sheep, I must admit that this is quite improbable!
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