Wednesday, 5 August 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Top judge facing probe over comments about immigrants
A judge who described Britain's immigration system as 'completely lax' is to face an official investigation, it was revealed today. Judge Ian Trigger complained that 'hundreds and hundreds of thousands' of illegal immigrants were abusing the benefits system.
Daily Mail (04-Aug-2009)

UK CROOKS MUSCLE IN ON PEOPLE SMUGGLING
BRIT gangsters are taking over the people-smuggling trade from foreign crooks and are flooding the UK with immigrants. New figures show criminals involved in the murky trade are increasingly likely to be British.
Daily Star (04-Aug-2009)

Citizenship proposals are 'un-British'
While we need to clarify the rules for obtaining British citizenship, curtailing people's freedom of expression is a big...
Guardian.co.uk (04-Aug-2009)

Man jailed following murder of Romanian man
An illegal immigrant has been jailed for life for murdering a Romanian man in Longsight, Manchester. Haroon Ahmed Niged, aged 27 of Stockport Road, Longsight, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court Crown Square to murdering Marian-ion Matei.
Asian News (04-Aug-2009)

Home Affairs Committee report 'Managing Migration: The Points Based System"
Commenting, the Co-Chairmen of Balanced Migration Cross Party Group, Frank Field, MP & Nicholas Soames said:....
Balanced Migration (04-Aug-2009)

Twitter/Migrationwatch
'For the first time the government has recognised immigration is the main source of population growth.' 
Twitter (04-Aug-2009)