Quarter of a million migrants from Donald Trump’s banned list have entered Britain since 2021, damning figures reveal

In a statement President Trump confirmed he will “fully restrict and limit the entry of nationals” from 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, and Haiti.

All migrants who have obtained green cards, a type of American visa, from 19 “countries of concern” will have their immigration status reviewed by authorities, US officials confirmed.

The 19 countries include Iran, Somalia, Venezuela and Togo. The Trump administration has raised concerns that citizens from these countries could pose a threat to American security, and pointed to the links of some nations to state sponsored terrorism.

Research by the Centre for Migration Control (CMC), seen by this broadcaster, shows that 232,274 migrants from those same countries have entered the UK in the past four years. This includes both legal arrivals granted visas by the Home Office and tens of thousands who crossed into Britain illegally on small boats.

According to CMC analysis of Government figures, the majority of legal arrivals came from Afghanistan, Iran and Sudan, with 45,000 Afghans, 35,000 Iranians and 14,000 Sudanese nationals issued long-term visas since 2021.

During the same period 88,000 migrants from the US list of 19 countries of concern have entered Britain via small boats illegally, including more than 26,000 from Afghanistan alone.

The Trump administration justified restricting visas from some of the 19 countries due to the significant number of nationals who have entered the United States illegally.

Robert Bates, research director of the Centre for Migration Control, told GB News: “The last Conservative government threw open Britain’s borders to migration from outside Europe with no real consideration of the economic and cultural costs.

“We now have enough real-world data which shows just how much of a disaster this has been.

“We need to stem the flow and work towards a sustained period of net negative migration.”

“It is inconceivable that a government which actually cared about this country would not introduce a red list of nationalities that are vastly overrepresented in crime statistics.”

“This is about keeping the people of this country safe, something that our border policy currently fails to do.”

Following the murder of a National Guard member in Washington DC on 26 November, which US authorities have accused an Afghan national of committing, the President pledged to "permanently pause migration" from all "third world countries".

The move followed an announcement from the British government that visa bans on three countries would be imposed for refusing to cooperate with deportation flights for illegal migrants.

Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, warned Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo that if they did not cooperate on the return of illegal migrants, she would bar entry of their citizens to Britain.

The announcement was part of a broader reform to the asylum system in Britain, in which the Labour minister pledged to require asylum seekers to wait 20 years before applying for permanent settlement.

However, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage criticised the government for not going far enough.

Connor Tomlinson, a political commentator, told this channel that the US had “finally recognised a basic reality about global migration patterns”.

“Countries are the way they are because of the people who live there,” he said.

“That doesn’t change when they arrive in the West. Britain should follow America’s lead and stop importing the problems of failed states.”

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