Thursday, 12 November 2009

A selection of recent media reports

700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently
Every day, migrants leave their homelands behind for new lives in other countries. Reflecting this desire, rather than the reality of the numbers that actually migrate, Gallup finds about 16% of the world's adults would like to move to another country permanently if they had the chance. This translates to roughly 700 million worldwide -- more than the entire adult population of North and South America combined. 
Gallup (11-Nov-2009)

Immigration can go down 
SIR Melanie McDonagh (Comment, November 9) is, of course, right to highlight the Governments incompetence and, it now seems, duplicity over the issue of immigration. 
The Daily Telegraph (11-Nov-2009)

23 held in immigration raid on clothes factory
SUSPECTED illegal workers hid in cardboard boxes during a raid at a clothing factory. Others ran off and had to be cornered on the roof of the six-storey Manchester...
Manchester Evening News (11-Nov-2009)

Bogus workers arrested after raid
Three workers have been found working illegally at a Berkshire catering...
BBC News Berkshire (11-Nov-2009)

Employers can ask to see migrants' ID cards
Under a new Order that comes into force later this month, the government is adding ID Cards to the list of documents that an employer may check when verifying a potential recruit's right to work in the...
Pay Magazine (11-Nov-2009)

Gordon Brown should say the unsayable: immigration has been a boon 
Who else will staff hospitals and care homes, pick potatoes and sweep streets, asks Mary Riddell. 
Daily Telegraph (11-Nov-2009)

BROWN IS A FAILURE BUT EVEN HE DOES NOT DESERVE THIS
THIS newspaper yields to nobody in its low opinion of Gordon Brown s leadership of the...
Daily Express (11-Nov-2009)