Wednesday, 19 May 2010

selection of recent media reports

Families left destitute by asylum system
Increasing numbers of children and families are being left destitute because of the chaotic asylum system, a charity has claimed. In a report The Childrens Society says its West Midlands Destitution Project, which opened in October 2008, helped 264 destitute children in its first year with demand...
Inside Housing (19-May-2010)

We must stop harbouring al-Qaeda enemies
The Government should not risk our safety to protect those who threaten us, argues Douglas...
Telegraph.co.uk (19-May-2010)

Osama Bin Laughin
A JUDGE yesterday refused to deport a Pakistani bomb plotter - to save the terrorist from being...
The Scottish Sun (19-May-2010)

AL QAEDA PAIR PLOTTING BOMB ATTACK ARE ALLOWED TO STAY IN BRITAIN
BRITISH authorities reacted with fury last night after a judge allowed two terror suspects linked to Al Qaeda to stay in the UK at taxpayers ...
Daily Express (19-May-2010)

Tories' Human Rights Act vow watered down in coalition pact
A flagship Tory pledge to tear up the Human Rights Act has been watered down in the coalition pact with the Liberal Democrats. In opposition, the Conservatives repeatedly promised to replace Labour's controversial legislation with a Bill of...
The Mail On Sunday (18-May-2010)

Labour must listen and connect: Balls
The last 10 days have turned things upside down. We lost the election but no other party won decisively. Many good MPs and candidates failed to win their seats but we had some great results, especially in local...
Belfast Telegraph (18-May-2010)

UK Identity cards abolished for immigrants and others
The new UK Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that the identity card system will be abolished. Theresa May had the following to say: "We will be scrapping ID cards but also introducing an annual cap on the number of migrants coming into the UK from outside the European...
UK Immigration (18-May-2010)

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)