Saturday, 9 January 2010

A selection of recent media reports

MORE MIGRANT WORKERS TO BUILD OLYMPIC VILLAGE
HOME Office chiefs want thousands more migrant workers to come to the UK, even though three million Brits could soon be on the dole. Officials even plan to invite foreigners to complete major building projects such as London s new Olympic village in time for the 2012...
Daily Star (09-Jan-2010)

Migrants stage riot in Italian town
Italian riot police face a group of immigrant workers in the streets Rosarno More pictures Hundreds of migrant workers, most of them Africans, have gone on a rampage in a southern Italian town in a second day of rioting, with authorities reporting at least 37 wounded, including 18 police officers...
Belfast Telegraph (09-Jan-2010)

ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVEN £10M TOO MUCH IN BENEFITS BUNGLE
ASYLUM seekers were wrongly paid nearly £10million in benefits last year, it emerged...
Daily Express (09-Jan-2010)

LABOUR DRAFTS IN FOREIGN WORKERS AS 2.5M BRITONS ON THE DOLE
JOBLESS Britons are to lose out on thousands of new vacancies after it emerged that the Government is planning to draft in foreign workers to help on major building projects all funded by the...
Daily Express (09-Jan-2010)

Conservatives pledge to close 'dangerous' student visa loopholes that allow 1.5million to enter UK unchecked
Dangerous loopholes in the student visa system that have let almost 1.5million people into the country unchecked would be closed under draconian Conservative...
Daily Mail (08-Jan-2010)

An open door for migrants to work on Olympics (while 20,000 British builders are laid off)
A scheme to relax immigration laws to allow tens of thousands of unskilled workers to enter the country to build Olympic sites is being drawn up for...
The Mail On Sunday (08-Jan-2010)

Special protection orders save nine-year-olds from forced marriages
Children as young as nine have been rescued from forced marriages under new special protection orders, The Times can disclose. The nine-year-olds were among 86 females granted the civil safeguards in the 12 months since the forced marriage protection orders were...
Times Online (08-Jan-2010)

Asylum seekers wrongly paid £10m
Asylum seekers were wrongly paid nearly £10 million in benefits last year. A Home Office audit found officials mistakenly handed out £9.6 million in housing benefit and living...
Channel 4 News (08-Jan-2010)

Immigrants riot in Italy amid racial unrest
13:38:12 GMT Source: Reuters * Worst episode of Italian racial unrest in years * Cars burned, road blocked, some 15 immigrants arrested * Southern town still tense, thousands protest (Recasts, changes dateline from ROME, adds violence, arrests) By Ilario Filippone ROSARNO, Italy, Jan 8 (Reuters) -...
Reuters Foundation (08-Jan-2010)

Home Secretary Appeals Deportation Decision
The Home Secretary has launched an appeal against the decision to allow an Iraqi man to stay in the UK. 32-year-old Ibrahim left 12-year-old Amy Houston to die under the wheels of his car when he knocked her down in Blackburn seven years...
Sunrise Radio (08-Jan-2010)

Immigrant attacked friend with knife to get deported back to Africa because he hated Britain
An immigrant carried out a knifepoint attack to be deported back to a war-torn African country - because he found Britain worse than his homeland. Kasiba Misigaro, 21, who was living off state handouts, had asked the immigration services to send him home but they did nothing - despite him...
Daily Mail (08-Jan-2010)

The church fights back against Islamification
Lord Carey's brave call to limit immigration is a timely defence of Christian values, says Damian Thompson.
Daily Telegraph (08-Jan-2010)

Pictured: The Albanian immigrant gang free pose with high-powered machine guns on Bebo and YouTube
A gang of immigrants who are being watched by police has posted a series of sickening images on the internet with members flaunting an arsenal of automatic...
Daily Mail (08-Jan-2010)

Lord Carey denounced over 'Christian' anti-immigration views
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, has been strongly criticised for backing an attempt by anti-immigration campaigners to turn migration into an election issue and for appearing to want migrants who accept 'Christian values' to have...
Ekklesia (08-Jan-2010)

Immigrants riot in southern Italy after attack
09:33:50 GMT Source: Reuters ROME, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Riots broke out in southern Italy on Thursday night when immigrants burned cars and broke store windows to protest against an attack on African farm workers by a gang of local white youths, police...
Reuters Foundation (08-Jan-2010)

IMMIGRANT GANG POSE WITH WEAPONS ON INTERNET
AN immigrant gang has posted a series of sickening images on the internet featuring members rapp-ing and posing with an arsenal of automatic weapons. Members of the OTR (On The Run) gang stare menacingly down the barrels of a chilling cache of high-velocity automatic...
Daily Star (08-Jan-2010)

IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS GET £15MILLION IN BONUSES
IMMIGRATION officials raked in more than £15million in bonuses while border controls descended into chaos. The lavish extras, courtesy of taxpayers, were given to staff at the UK Border Agency over the last five years, it was revealed...
Daily Star (08-Jan-2010)

The real loser of this pathetic plot
The real loser of this pathetic plot So Gordon Brown is still Prime Minister, his authority diminished a little further, but his right to remain in No10 until the bitter end apparently...
Daily Mail (08-Jan-2010)

END THIS BONUS CULTURE
PAYING bonuses to public servants simply for doing their jobs is a stupid and unaffordable...
Daily Express (08-Jan-2010)

IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS RAKED IN £15M BONUSES
IMMIGRATION officials raked in more than £15million in taxpayer-funded bonuses while Britain s border controls descended into chaos, Whitehall figures revealed...
Daily Express (08-Jan-2010)