Well if you look hard enough for what you want to see, you'll find it. Those figures in the RC link don't stack up with what's been bandied about on a variety of TV news reports and other news providers. In the sources in that page it says "Oct to Dec 2014"?

The UK received 31,400 assylum applications? How many illegals got here then?

So there's 8 million "refugees" from just 5 countries but "only" 4 million applied for assylum in the 5 countries mentioned? Where did the rest go, how many "refugees" came from other than the top five and where did they go?

Over time, I've watched TV interviews and read news reports about reasons for wanting to come to the UK and it was the reason I mentioned that most stood out. Some undercover reporting was quite specific with the "refugees" regarding the UK as a soft touch. If the other countries are so wonderful, why are there thousands of "refugees" hanging around Calais hoping to hop on a UK-bound truck? Surely word would spread that the UK didn't want them and puts many obstacles in their way. So, wouldn't word spread that they stood a better chance of free Milk and Honey someplace else?

There have been cases of illegals getting here, applying for assylum, being deported only to come back again, and again plus others who've not applied for assylum being caught here and deported 4 times. Why come back again and again if there wasn't some good reason to try to get here?

Only this evening I watched an old Cop programme where a drunk driver was caught and found to be an illegal and he'd been here a while and working so he was deported.

The clear fact of the matter is, there's illegals getting in here and they don't apply for assylum because somehow they acquire a false identity and get in to "the system".