May, 14 2009
The lower house overwhelmingly backed the bill, which also proposes jailing those who rent houses to illegal immigrants for up to three years. The bill still needs to be approved in the Senate before it can become...
BBC News UK - (13/05)
At least 5,000 criminals are now in the sights of the UK's organised crime fighting agency after a 75% rise in operations, its boss has said. Bill Hughes, director general of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), also said £175m of assets were seized in the UK this year plus £88m...
BBC News - (13/05)
Education editor, BBC News website The squeeze on infant and primary school places that has begun in some parts of England looks set to get worse. Population trend data show a decade of decline in the number of pupils in the younger years has...
BBC News - (13/05)
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have launched a campaign to prohibit the employment of members of racist organisations within the Home Office and UK Border...
IRR News - (13/05)
'Club class' illegal migrants are paying up to £10,000-a-head to fly to Britain on tourist flights via Ireland , it emerged today. While people smugglers charge between £500 and £1000 for places in the back of lorries and trains across the Channel, airborne routes are becoming more...
Daily Mail - (13/05)
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans asylum seekers are suffering from high levels of discrimination, homelessness and exploitation, a report has claimed. The Over Not Out report, from Refugee Support, the refugee services arm of Metropolitan Support Trust (MST), suggests that support services for LGBT...
Pink News - (13/05)
Three men who have been missing from an immigration removal centre almost a year ago are still on the...
BBC News Northern Ireland - (13/05)
IRR News reproduces a collective letter by academics who 'decry the insidious way in which [they] are being used to monitor foreign students and staff'.
IRR News - (13/05)
AT least 20 failed asylum seekers with dependent children will be offered support in private flats rather than being held in the Dungavel detention...
EveningTimes.online - (13/05)
Labour's failure to judge the huge number of Eastern bloc immigrants who would come to Britain is still having a 'significant' impact on public services, Phil Woolas said...
Daily Mail - (13/05)
A FAILED Plymouth asylum seeker is believed to have been removed from the UK after a 12-day hunger strike in protest at his impending removal to Iraq. Najih Ahmed Mohammed, 31, who lived in Plymouth for the last six years, was detained at Brook House detention centre at Gatwick since March 29 and is..
This is Plymouth - (13/05)
Denham joins local authorities to help target funds for English language classes DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS News Release (55) issued by COI News Distribution Service on 13 May 2009 * 21 local authorities to spearhead new approach for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)...
Wired-Gov - (13/05)
The UKs Immigration Minister, Mr.Phil Woolas, has been explaining the new multi-tiered system for migrants proposing to work and settle in Britain. Hes also been talking about its potential economic...
British Satellite News - (13/05)
Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, has said the Government got it wrong by failing to judge the numbers of Eastern Europeans who woulc come to Britain following EU expansion in...
Telegraph.co.uk - (13/05)
Croydon Council has won a battle in the High Court over the age of asylum seekers. Thousands of young asylum seekers arriving in the country claim to be minors to forgo some of the formalities adults have to go through when applying for...
Hounslow Guardian - (13/05)
LABOURS open-door EU immigration policy was wrong and led to significant pressure on public services, Phil Woolas admitted...
Sunday Express - (13/05)
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Italy MPs back migrant crackdown
Agency targeting 5,000 criminals
Number of pupils is set to soar
New campaign by PCS union
'Club class' illegal immigrants are paying £10,000 to fly to Britain on tourist planes
LGBT asylum seekers 'facing high levels of homelessness and discrimination'
Immigration site escapees on run
Academics refuse to police immigration
Flats for failed asylum seekers
'We got it wrong': Embattled minister Phil Woolas finally admits Labour's immigration policy has failed
Plymouth failed asylum seeker repatriated after hunger strike
Denham joins local authorities to help target funds for English language classes
UK MINISTER EXPLAINS IMMIGRATION MOVES
Phil Woolas admits Government got it wrong over Eastern European immigration
Croydon Council welcomes judgement on young asylum seeker's ages
WE GOT IT WRONG OVER MIGRANTS, SAYS WOOLAS
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