Very disturbing for the mother country: Half of young people in Albania want to leave the country

A survey conducted by the British Embassy in Albania shows that half the Albanian youth want to cross the Channel to Britain this summer.

The survey, based on 1,800 families in Kukes, showed that half of young people aged 17-22 wanted to leave their homeland and go to Britain, despite the dangers of crossing the Channel.

Suella Braverman has been warned of this new wave of Albanian immigrants expected to cross the Canal this summer, despite the impact of small ships. Internal Secretary has been handed over to internal study, commissioned by the United Kingdom Embassy in Tirana.

The discovery highlights the seasonal nature of illegal migration by Albanians as the country's main growth was not materialised last year by June until September, when more than 10,000 out of 12,000 Albanians crossed the Channel in 2022.

This comes after Rishi Sunak and Braverman welcomed a 90 per cent drop in the number of Albanians who arrived on small boats so far this year as evidence that their crackdown on small boats was functioning. The figures have dropped from 2,165 in January to June 2022, to 151 in the first five months of 2023.

The survey, based on 1,800 families in Kukes, the main area in northern Albania for immigrants, showed that half of the youth aged 17-22 wanted to leave their homeland and go to Great Britain, despite the dangers of crossing the Channel. Therefore and Braverman told MPs that the government “was not self-chaining” despite the decline of the number and will continue to monitor the English Channel crossings by Albanians.

Home Office has intensified its crackdown on Albanians in the past two months, establishing a 400-strong unit to accelerate about 17,000 asylum applications. Sunnak discovered on Monday that the success rate for asylum seekers had dropped from nearly one to five (17 percent) to two percent.

The ministers are also aiming at about 20,000 other Albanians who have illegally entered the United Kingdom, though they agree that 70 to 80 per cent may have escaped on bail from immigration.

They have also tightened the rules for modern slavery amid claims that it has been exploited by Albanian immigrants to avoid deportation.

Since the government raised the threshold for evidence, Sunnak said the percentage of rejected requests had tripled almost 12 per cent to 42 per cent. The survey, conducted by Swiss Contact and funded by the United Kingdom Government, revealed that in general 38 percent of people in northern Albania, one of the poorest areas, wanted to leave.