March, 18 2009
Managing migration: Points-based system Witnesses Migration Advisory Committee Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State for Borders and Immigration, Matthew Coats, Director, Immigration Group, and Neil Hughes, Director, Points-Based System Programme, Home Office
House of Commons - (17/03)
MINISTERS are planning to set up a detention centre in France to hold hundreds of migrants who are gathering in Calais in a bid to come to Britain. Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the joint Anglo-French camp would be set up "pretty damn quick" to send a blunt message to illegal immigrants that..
This is London - (17/03)
MPs today demanded immediate immigration curbs as they said laid-off City workers are struggling to find jobs because of a continuing influx of...
This is London - (17/03)
FRENCH plans to build refugee drop in centres near Calais have sparked fears it could fuel a surge in illegal immigrants sneaking into the UK through the Port of...
This is Kent - (17/03)
Polish trade unions are campaigning for 'Polish jobs for Polish workers', since the credit crunch has led to a decline in jobs. Polish trade unions want to see stricter laws on the number of foreigners working in their country, as Poles who have lived and worked in the UK head home to find jobs there in...
Personneltoday.com - (17/03)
The Government is introducing a migrant tax this week, expected to be about £50 charged on each arrival coming to work in the UK from outside the European Union. Ministers say they expect it will raise £70m over the next two years which will be passed on to local authorities to help defray the cost on public services of a rising population. My maths may be a bit rusty. But this suggests that the Government is expecting some 700,000 non-EU migrants each year. According to the last set of official statistics, an estimated 577,000 people arrived to live in the UK for at least a year in 2007, at least 200,000 of whom were either British nationals returning home or EU citizens coming to work. Either this tax is going to be higher than predicted or the Government is expecting a lot more migrants to arrive.
Daily Telegraph - (17/03)
She was born in Birmingham, educated in Bristol, speaks fluent English and holds a British passport but nurse Julie Dutton has been made to sit an English language test to be able to work in Australia.
Times on line - (17/03)
Refugees attempting to enter Britain via Calais are "locked out, not queuing to get in", Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has insisted. He was replying to a GMTV report which claimed hundreds of migrants, some as young as eight, were trying to board UK-bound lorries in the French...
BBC News - (17/03)
'Now they're getting all our jobs' was how one red-top newspaper reported the statistics that appeared to show all new jobs in the UK were being taken by...
Publicservice.co.uk - (17/03)
The Government has said it is continuing to monitor the situation in Sudan after it was reported a failed asylum seeker returned there had been...
News Guardian - (17/03)
MORE than three quarters of Brits think unemployed immigrants should be asked to leave, a poll found...
Online Sun - (17/03)
) On the very day when Australia slashes its intake of foreign migrants, the Left-leaning Financial Times finally wakes up to the massive public unease caused by Britain's open-door policy on immigration.
Daily Mail - (17/03)
Not all MPs lower their voices when asked about the impact of immigration on political debate as the recession deepens and polls register growing voter resentment over foreigners threatening Gordon Brown's "British jobs for British workers".
Guardian.co.uk - (17/03)
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
House of Commons Home Affairs Committee
Instant detention centre to deter Calais migrants
MPs want immediate curb on non-EU finance workers
Calais camps spark illegal immigrant surge fears
Polish jobs for Polish workers campaign aims to exclude low-paid A8 state nationals
Now Labour wants 'an honest debate' about immigration
Strewth! Briton Julie Dutton must take an English test to work in Australia
UK 'locking out' Calais migrants
Immigrant stats 'needed explaining'
'Murder' of failed UK asylum seeker
Brits in jobless migrant rap
Lesson from Oz
Michael White: Labour still running into trouble over immigration | Comment is free | The Guardian
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