Thursday, 10 December 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Grayling pressured on immigration cap
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Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (10-Dec-2009)

Immigrant workers found 'living in sheds' across Slough
More than 1,000 migrant workers across Slough are thought to be living in sheds in people's back...
BBC News Berkshire (10-Dec-2009)

How can Nick Griffin's racist policies belong to the 'only true green party'?
Griffin has taken the line of many leading environmentalists that overpopulation is a environmental threat but he's no...
Guardian.co.uk (10-Dec-2009)

Immigration lawyers boost for top firms
Highly skilled immigrant lawyers should not have to hold a masters degree to work for the UKs top law firms, the governments migration adviser recommended last...
Law Society Gazette (10-Dec-2009)

'My child still has nightmares'
Senior doctors are calling for an immediate end to the detention of children in immigration removal centres. saying their health is being put at risk. One family describes how their time in Bedfordshire's Yarl's Wood detention centre earlier this year has affected...
BBC News (10-Dec-2009)

FRENCH IMMIGRANT CAMP FURY
OFFICIALS in France plan to open a camp for immigrants planning to sneak into Britain. Three months after they closed the infamous Sangatte camp for good, bosses in Calais have given the green light for a new shelter where immigrants can hole up as they await a chance to cross the...
Daily Star (10-Dec-2009)

70M? Thats OK for the UK
HOME Secretary Alan Johnson faced fury last night after claiming the UK could cope with a population of 70 million. It came as he blasted official number-crunchers for "terrorising" people by saying the number of Britons would rocket by nearly ten...
Online Sun (10-Dec-2009)

Detention of child migrants 'risks their health'
The practice of placing children in immigration removal centres should stop "without delay" because it can damage their health, senior doctors have...
BBC News (10-Dec-2009)

LABOUR IN DENIAL ON MIGRATION EXPLOSION
LABOUR was accused of being in denial over immigration yesterday after Home Secretary Alan Johnson said Britain would cope with floods of new...
Daily Express (10-Dec-2009)

Sarkozy is half right: all Europeans must understand the Swiss mistake
What really matters is not minarets, but that we all, Muslims included, commit to the essentials of a free...
Guardian Unlimited - G2 (09-Dec-2009)

Debate on migration limit is legitimate, says Alan Johnson
Home secretary eschews polarised arguments, either for immigration to cease or for an 'open door'...
Guardian.co.uk (09-Dec-2009)

Record number of foreigners living in the UK
THE number of foreigners living in the UK hit a record high last year, according to statistics published yesterday. There are 6.7 million people who were born overseas living in the UK one in 11 of the total population the Office for National Statistics...
Edinburgh Evening News (09-Dec-2009)

Alan Johnson admits public is 'terrorised by spectre' of 70million population
Alan Johnson yesterday claimed the public was being 'terrorised by the spectre' of the UK's population hitting 70million. The Home Secretary said the Office for National Statistics, which has repeatedly made the projection, had been proved wrong in the...
Daily Mail (09-Dec-2009)

Nicolas Sarkozy: Muslims must be discreet about faith
Nicolas Sarkozy stoked the debate over immigration today with a warning to Muslims to practise their religion discreetly or face rejection by moderate Islam in...
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain (09-Dec-2009)

Britain 'terrorised by spectre' of 70 million population
The public is being "terrorised" by the idea that the population will hit the 70 million mark, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said today. Official figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest the total UK population will increase by nearly nine million to hit 70 million by...
Evening Standard (09-Dec-2009)

Immigration minister defends brave border staffs £10,000 bonuses
The Immigration Minister provoked outrage yesterday by claiming that immigration officers were putting their lives on the line for the country. Phil Woolas defended bonus payments worth an average of £10,000 paid to 29 senior civil servants in the UK Border...
Times Online (09-Dec-2009)

Ashford MP Damian Green hits out at immigrants camp at Calais
Kent MP Damian Green has criticised a makeshift camp for immigrants at Calais. Just three months after a previous makeshift camp was destroyed, another centre for migrants has been set up...
Kent Online (09-Dec-2009)

French To Reopen Calais Migrants Centre
French officials in Calais are planning to reopen a reception centre for UK-bound migrants - just three months after destroying a makeshift camp near the...
96.9 Viking FM (09-Dec-2009)

6.7m foreigners are living in UK
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Online Sun (09-Dec-2009)

IMMIGRATION CHIEF PHIL WOOLAS IN 'HERO' BORDER POLICE GAFFE
LABOURS immigration chief has provoked an outcry with his suggestion that desk-bound officials are putting their lives on the line for their...
Daily Express (09-Dec-2009)