Comment by cs02rm0

10 days ago

The minister who set this up claims this is a cover up:

https://x.com/CPhilpOfficial/status/2021295301017923762

https://xcancel.com/CPhilpOfficial/status/202129530101792376...

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pjc50  10 days ago

Anyone banging on about coverups of crime due to immigrants should get immediately put in the bad faith argument bin, even if they were a Minister.

  • reliabilityguy  10 days ago

    Why? Immigrants cannot commit crimes?

    This kind of logic does more disservice than people realize. You can combat bigotry towards immigrants (issue #1), without covering up for criminal immigrants (issue #2) in fear of increase of issue #1 among the natives. It only brings up more resentment and bigotry.

    • notahacker  10 days ago

      You can also insinuate that decisions completely unrelated to immigrants (issue #3) are a coverup to "protect immigrants" in order to use the popularity of bigotry towards immigrants (issue #1) to make the issue salient to bigots that have literally no interest in the rights or wrongs of third party court databases, which anyone with the slightest level of political understanding can see is going on here.

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    • pjc50  10 days ago

      Crimes are committed by individuals. "Immigrants" is a group.

      Prosecution of sexual assault is often handled extremely badly. It needs to be done better, without fear or favor, including people who are friends with the police or in positions of power. As we're seeing the fallout of the Epstein files.

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  • retinaros  10 days ago

    wake up its 2026 even obama and clinton are saying more or less that now about illegal immigration

  • carlosjobim  10 days ago

    Can you explain your reasoning? Horrible crimes committed by foreign men against native children were covered up for political reasons in the UK. This is common knowledge.

    • pjc50  10 days ago

      In the case of Rotherham, I believe that most of those committing the crimes were not foreign; most were British born British nationals. Ethnicity is not the same as immigration status.

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  • krona  10 days ago

    This database exposed half a million weekend cases which were heard with zero press notification. Many grooming gang trials were heard this way. The database is being deleted weeks before the national inquiry into the grooming gang cover up begins, and the official reason for deleting the data is nonsensical.

  • 9x39  10 days ago

    Actually that’s what data and the preponderance of victims allege: an intersection of immigration and policing which interlocked to systematically deprioritize the investigation into abuse of working-class white girls by an over represented ethnic group.

    In the local data that the audit examined from three police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.

    It’s unfortunate to watch people and entire countries twist themselves in logic pretzels to avoid ever suggesting that immigration has no ills, and we’re just being polite here about it.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-casey-r...

    https://celina101.substack.com/p/the-uks-rape-gang-inquiry

  • mhh__  10 days ago

    Why? Grooming gangs went from being a far right conspiracy theory to "there was a coverup" being official government position in a week.