Friday, 7 August 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Student visa con warning
TENS of thousands of foreigners posing as students at bogus colleges have been given visas, it emerged yesterday.
The Sun (07-Aug-2009)

Finance Minister Sammy Wilson clashes with group over racism
A Stormont minister has clashed with a leading ethnic minorities group after accusing campaigners of overstating the problem of racism to attract public money.
Belfast Telegraph (07-Aug-2009)

Ministers hunt for 4,000 'bogus' foreign students
Ministers are trying to locate nearly 4,000 foreign students who are living in Britain after coming to the UK to study at bogus colleges, it emerged last night.
The Independent (07-Aug-2009)

A judge telling the truth about immigration? Take him to the cells!
Sentencing a Jamaican drugs dealer to two years in jail, Judge Ian Trigger told him: 'Your case illustrates all too clearly the completely lax immigration policy that exists in this country.
Daily Mail (06-Aug-2009)

Turkey is part of Europe. Fear keeps it out of the EU
Sarkozy's argument won't wash.
Guardian.co.uk (06-Aug-2009)

Health chiefs unable to stop soaring HIV cases in Coventry
COVENTRY has become an HIV blackspot with 100 new cases being diagnosed every year, alarming new figures show. 
Coventry Telegraph (06-Aug-2009)

Illegal takeaway workers deported after raid
THREE illegal workers have now been removed from the country after a raid on Newport takeaway, the UK Border Agency said yesterday. Officers visited Dragon Palace, 472 Chepstow Road, on July 18, acting on intelligence.
South Wales Argus (06-Aug-2009)

Can points make good citizens?
Sir, The Governments proposals on citizenship carefully skirt around the only two issues that really matter (Learn English and dont demonstrate if you want a passport, migrants to be told, Aug 4). 
The Times (06-Aug-2009)

New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with fa..
Adam Laurie is no ordinary hacker. In the world of computing, he is considered a genius - a man whose talents are used by government departments and blue-chip companies to guard against terrorists and cyber-criminals.
Daily Mail (06-Aug-2009)

Revealed: Nearly 1million migrants 'will leave in five years'
More than 950,000 migrants will leave the UK over the next five years in the wake of the recession, a think tank claims today. The Institute for Public Policy Research even says tax breaks should be introduced to encourage some of these 'super mobile' foreign nationals to remain.
Daily Mail (06-Aug-2009)

Jamaican fighting deportation is granted legal aid to prove she's a lesbian
A Jamaican prisoner has been given a third opportunity to prove she is a lesbian as she fights a deportation order. The woman insists she is genuinely in love with her partner and that to send her back to her home country where homosexuals often face persecution would be a violation of her human rights.
Daily Mail (05-Aug-2009)