Wednesday, 19 May 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Operation Pathway: What happened
BBC News home affairs correspondent Two Pakistani men accused of planning a bomb attack in the UK have won their appeal against being deported - but only because the court said they might be tortured if they are returned...
BBC News (18-May-2010)

Judge rules terror pair ARE a threat to national security... but they CAN'T be deported because of human rights
Two Pakistani men branded a threat to national security by a judge, today won the right to stay in the country. Al-Qaeda operative Abid Naseer, 24, and Ahmad Faraz Khan, 26, should not be deported back to their homeland because of the risk to their safety, the same immigration judge...
The Mail On Sunday (18-May-2010)

Judge criticised for 'immigrants exploiting benefits' comment
A judge who spoke out about immigration while sentencing a Jamaican drug dealer has come under fire for his comments by a top law lord. Judge Ian Trigger told fraudster Lucien McClearley that there were hundreds of thousands of people like him exploiting the UKs generous welfare benefits.
Mail Online (18-May-2010)

'Al-Qa'ida operative' wins fight against deportation
A man described as an "al-Qa'ida operative" and a serious threat to national security, and another man labelled as "willing to participate" in his plans, won a fight against deportation from the UK...
The Independent (18-May-2010)

Terror pair to stay in Britain as judge vetoes deportation over safety risk
Two men declared by a judge to be a threat to national security today won the right to stay in the country. The same immigration judge said although he accepted one of them was an al Qaeda operative the pair should not be deported back to Pakistan because of the risk to their...
Evening Standard (18-May-2010)

Judge told off for migrant remarks
A judge who described UK immigration policy as "completely lax" has been disciplined for making inappropriate remarks during a court sentencing. Judge Ian Trigger's comments, at the trial of a Jamaican man at Liverpool Crown Court in 2009, were investigated by the Office for Judicial...
BBC News (18-May-2010)

Mum of four caught working illegally at care home is jailed
A Kenyan woman who used forged papers to get a job in a care home so she could provide for her four children has been jailed for six months. Mary Nyaga, 53, started working as a cleaner at Heaton Lodge care home in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, but then became a carer for residents who have serious mental...
Manchester Evening News (18-May-2010)

Immigration firm wins judicial review against Law Society
Immigration specialists Malik Law Chambers in Bethnal Green, East London, have won a judicial review against the Law Society. The firm accused the society of failing to learn lessons from Lord Ouseley s review in 2008, which found that the society could be open to the charge of institutional racism .
Solicitors Journal (18-May-2010)

Councils 'create migrant problem'
Failing to properly manage the flow of migrants into Scotland could spark a backlash against them, a Holyrood committee will be told. The Scottish Trades Union Congress says poor planning by local authorities, not immigration itself, is what causes problems in public service...
Queensferry Gazette (18-May-2010)

Seedy underworld of human trafficking
Well-hidden but happening "right under our noses", human trafficking in Northern Ireland is quietly on the rise, according to...
BBC News UK (18-May-2010)

MASS IMMIGRATION FUELS POVERTY, SAYS LABOUR MP FRANK FIELD
A FORMER Labour minister who has been offered a post advising David Cameron yesterday warned that mass immigration was fuelling...
Daily Express (18-May-2010)

MIGRANT INFLUX HAS CAUSED CHAOS IN OUR CLASSROOMS 
LABOUR S unchecked open-door immigration policy has left a legacy of classroom chaos with thousands of pupils unable to utter a single word of...
Daily Express (18-May-2010)

A VOICE WE NEED TO HEAR
WHATEVER Frank Field s new role turns out to be he is already talking the kind of sense which the public has longed to hear, and what s more he is being given a platform by the new...
Daily Express (18-May-2010)

Time to end the Blair-Brown battles and repair Labour, says David Miliband
Frontrunner in Labour leadership election says party lost focus as he appeals to activists'...
Guardian Unlimited - Politics (17-May-2010)

Bernard Dineen: As I say farewell, Britain starts anew after Brown's years of lies and anger
THIS is my last Monday column for the Yorkshire Post. I have decided to bring it to an end after several momentous decades. A General Election and a new Government seem a good turning-point for me to bow...
Yorkshire Post (17-May-2010)