An illegal migrant who taunted Britons from his taxpayer-funded hotel room racked up a million views on TikTok after posting a step-by-step guide to crossing the Channel and urging followers to “tell your friends to come.”
The Afghan asylum seeker, using the online handle Alexandra420, swapped stays in Germany and France — two safe countries — to reach Britain, where he was among 434 boat arrivals on Saturday. He was subsequently moved to the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Heathrow, from where he shared eight video clips encouraging others to make the illegal journey.
TikTok has now taken down his account for promoting people-smuggling following an investigation that revealed he had fled Germany specifically to seek better benefits in “soft-touch” Britain. The influencer, who had 70,000 followers, hosted a 45-minute Q&A session in the Afghan dialect Pashto, during which he mocked his European rejection whilst celebrating British hospitality.
Fled Germany Over Deportation Fears
The migrant had stayed in Germany for a substantial period before deciding to leave after posting warnings about the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party’s plans to deport all illegal migrants. In shared videos, he had expressed concern about AfD leader Alice Weidel’s hardline stance on Afghan asylum seekers.
“Listen to this woman’s speech, and indeed, she has spoken what she means,” he wrote of a video showing Weidel declaring that Afghans must respect German laws and culture or face deportation. “This law will be applied to Afghans at the earliest opportunity.”
The influencer had shared photos of himself posing in front of Berlin’s Altes Museum and at Alexanderplatz public square, as well as images from France showing him at a train station platform wearing a black puffer jacket with cream cargo trousers.
Mocking British Taxpayers
After entering the UK, the asylum seeker changed his TikTok bio to include a British flag — a move seen as mocking taxpayers who are stumping up billions to house 32,000 people in around 210 migrant hotels across the country.
During his livestreamed Q&A session on Tuesday, he told followers: “Finally, I left Germany. Then they moved me into France.” When asked about his time in Berlin, he sarcastically claimed he had never been there, laughing for several seconds before adding: “And I’ve never lived in Germany. Not for one second.”
Appearing to admit he had been rejected for asylum in mainland Europe, he stated: “What should I do in a country that rejects me? I didn’t get acceptance, I got nothing. I’m crazy to live there?”
Referring to Britain’s generous benefits system, he added: “There’s nothing there. Only here. Everything in the story is about acceptance. There is no need for my attention there (in Germany) any more.”
Political Backlash
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp blasted the revelations, stating: “This illegal immigrant had multiple opportunities to claim asylum in other European countries before choosing to come here. The Home Office and police should be urgently investigating this man for encouraging others to enter the UK illegally and producing a step-by-step guide showing them how to cross.
Philp, who was in Calais yesterday observing illegal immigrant camps, added: “Facilitating illegal immigration is a criminal offence. Enough is enough. Everyone crossing the Channel illegally by small boat must be removed either to their home country or a safe third country. The Labour government need to get a grip of this crisis.
The Shadow Home Secretary called for the return of the Rwanda deportation scheme, which was proposed under Boris Johnson but dropped by Sir Keir Starmer on his first day as Prime Minister. Since then, 50,716 migrants have entered on small boats — including 445 on Tuesday alone.
Unlikely to Face Deportation
Removals to Afghanistan have been paused since the Taliban seized control in 2021, meaning the TikTok influencer knew when entering the UK that he was unlikely to be deported. This knowledge appeared to influence his decision to leave Germany for Britain.
After arriving in Dover, he was taken to the processing centre at Manston, Kent, and given standard-issue clothes, some of which he appeared to wear in his videos. He was then transferred to the Crowne Plaza near Heathrow, a stopover for many asylum seekers before moving to more permanent accommodation.
The hotel, which previously operated as a four-star facility for holidaymakers and businesspeople, is now contracted by the Home Office. Yesterday, more migrants were seen coming and going from the establishment.
Growing Crisis
The case highlights ongoing concerns about Britain’s asylum system, with recent figures showing more than 25,000 people have crossed the English Channel to the UK in 2025 — the highest total this early in any year on record.
A new UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings came into force last week, providing a legal basis for a “one-in, one-out” pilot scheme. Under the arrangement, migrants who cross the Channel illegally face being sent back to France if their asylum claim is considered inadmissible.
A TikTok spokeswoman said yesterday: “We take a zero-tolerance approach to content promoting human smuggling, this account has been banned and we remove the vast majority of content before it is even reported. Through industry-leading search interventions and close collaboration with the UK National Crime Agency, we work to identify and disrupt organised immigration crime online.
A Home Office spokeswoman stated: “It is our longstanding policy not to comment on operational matters or individual cases.
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