They claim that migrants are not disproportionately responsible for sex crimes in Britain, but just in case, the government is publishing a new booklet telling them not to rape anyone or forcibly marry a child.
Unbelievably, some rights groups have called the booklet racist and demanded that it be withdrawn.
Liberals have claimed that the UK’s Pakistani grooming gangs were a myth designed by the right to vilify migrants.
However, the existence of these gangs, as well as incidents of rape and child marriage linked to migrants from Muslim countries, has been well documented.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told Parliament in January 2025 that multiple major grooming-gang investigations “involved Pakistani heritage gangs.”
The subsequent National Audit report, led by Baroness Louise Casey and published in June 2025, found that Pakistanis were disproportionately represented among suspects in local datasets.
The government has since ordered mandatory recording of ethnicity and nationality in child sexual exploitation cases, and a full statutory inquiry chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield began work on April 13, 2026.
However, even when British jurisdictions record perpetrators’ national origins, many use the terms “Asian” or “South Asian,” obscuring the fact that the perpetrators are Pakistani.
Many also record perpetrators by citizenship rather than ethnicity, meaning Pakistanis or other Muslims born in the UK who commit these crimes are counted as British in official statistics.
This is similar to how the U.S. media consistently referred to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “Maryland man” who was inexplicably and viciously deported to El Salvador, rather than as an El Salvadoran citizen who was in the United States illegally, had a final order of deportation, and was deported to his country of citizenship.
Recent conviction records in the UK support claims that grooming gangs exist and are linked to migrants.
In Kirklees, West Yorkshire, 20 men, predominantly Pakistani, were sentenced to a combined 277 years after a trial that concluded in September 2024. They were convicted of raping and drugging girls as young as 12.
In the landmark 2012 Rochdale case, eight of the nine convicted gang members were of Pakistani origin.
At least three, Adil Khan, Qari Abdul Rauf, and Abdul Aziz, were Pakistan-born migrants who had acquired British citizenship through naturalization.
All three were later stripped of that citizenship and ordered deported, though prolonged legal appeals have kept them in the UK.