In stark contrast to BNP policy, which is one of zero tolerance for illegal immigrants, the government has offered failed asylum seekers enough money to build new houses if they just agree to go home.

Afghans and Iraqis whose asylum claims have been rejected, and who have no right to remain in the UK, can each claim £6,000 of taxpayers’ money if they agree to leave.

Ministers have authorised an extra £2,000 housing grant for each person — enough to build a house in Afghanistan — on top of an existing £4,000 package.

A Home Office spokesman said 600 foreigners are expected to take up the additional cash, which is meant to be spent on building a home or repairing an existing family property.

Refugees who have been granted leave to remain in the UK, and those whose asylum claims are yet to be decided, are also eligible for the money. Many will have entered the UK illegally.

An Afghan earning the country’s £250 annual average wage would have to work for 24 years to earn the same amount as the total Home Office handout, while an Iraqi on the country’s £1,200 annual average wage would have to work for five years.

The total cost to the British taxpayer of the new initiative will be £1.2 million a year.

The £2,000 additional grant, known as the Return and Rebuild scheme, was launched in September with little publicity and is due to run for one year.
IOM spokesman Marek Effendowicz said he expected nearly everyone who returned to the two countries to apply for the cash. “We believe there will be enormous uptake,” he said. “I haven’t got figures yet but I expect that the vast majority will apply. Why wouldn’t they? In Afghanistan one could build a whole little house for that money.”

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, which campaigns against mass immigration, said: “No wonder the Government are trying to keep quiet about this increase in benefits. This policy is rapidly becoming both expensive and counter-productive.

“We are offering people from these countries a win-win situation. Either their story is believed and they get access to a welfare state for life, or they are disbelieved and they return much richer than most of their compatriots.”

Last year, 4,155 failed asylum seekers and other irregular immigrants agreed to leave the UK under the Home Office’s range of “assisted return” schemes.

A total of 1,755 Afghans and Iraqis were either deported or took up a voluntary return scheme last year; the Home Office refused to say how many fell into each category.

Last December it was revealed that more than 23,000 failed asylum seekers had shared £36 million in handouts under voluntary return projects since they were introduced in 1999. The foreigners are given free flights, handed £1,000 in cash at the airport and paid a further £3,000 to start businesses in their homelands.

A 35-year-old Iranian who benefited from the programme used the money to set up an ostrich farm; a woman from Zimbabwe set up a beauty salon on returning to Harare after six years in Britain, and an Albanian established a vineyard in his home country.

The BNP is quite clear on this issue: there can be no tolerance for illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers, who have flouted every law in the book. Rewarding them in this way just encourages the problem, rather than solving it.

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This is the kinds of news that makes my blood boil. Families and individuals are losing their homes due to the credit crunch. Now, instead of helping, they again treat us with utter contempt by throwing yet more of OUR money at the people they allowed in here in the first place. This is just putting us further into debt. People need money to pay for gas/electricity/council tax! I’ve had enough of these vermin/thieves in govt. BNP for me. Join the Resistance and join the BNP! This will lead to an immigration explosion once the word gets out and the queue will stretch from here to eternity. To think they are kicking our own people off welfare benefits and taking houses off our elderly to pay for their own care!