A selection of recent media reports
EMERGENCY CLASSROOMS TO COPE WITH 20,000 MIGRANTS EMERGENCY classrooms have been put up to deal with a huge demand for primary school places in an area with a massive migrant... Scottish Daily Express (14-Aug-2010)
AREAS WHERE ENGLISH IS FOREIGN TO TWO IN THREE SCHOOLCHILDREN FEWER than a third of schoolchildren in one of Britains largest cities speak English as their first language, a report... Scottish Daily Express (14-Aug-2010)
Pupils forced to use mobile classrooms as city is flooded by 20,000 migrants Schools in a city flooded by more than 20,000 immigrants are at 'breaking point', education chiefs warned yesterday. Mail Online (13-Aug-2010)
College accused of certificate sale A college is under investigation following claims it was illegally selling English language certificates to help hundreds of... London Evening Standard (13-Aug-2010)
Illegal immigrants found in woods near M2 in Rainham Seven suspected illegal immigrants have been arrested after they were found hiding in woodland at a motorway service station near.. BBC News England (13-Aug-2010)
College accused over language certificates A college was under investigation today following claims it was illegally selling English language certificates to help hundreds... The Independent (13-Aug-2010)
Immigrants arrested in raids on businesses IMMIGRATION officers have arrested three people following UK Border Agency raids on car wash firms and an off-license in... Yorkshire Post (13-Aug-2010)
EXPOSED: COLLEGE WHERE MIGRANTS GET AN ENGLISH PASS IN 15 MINUTES A COLLEGE that appears to have no qualified teachers is under investigation after allegedly selling English language certificates.. Daily Express (13-Aug-2010)
US Senate passes $600m Mexico border bill The US Senate has reconvened during its August recess to pass a $600m (£385m) Mexico border security... BBC News UK (12-Aug-2010)
No boatloads but still trouble Sometimes what does not happen is the real... The Economist (12-Aug-2010)
Lincolnshire footballer admits deception case A Lincolnshire semi-professional footballer has admitted a string of immigration and deception... BBC News England (12-Aug-2010)
NHS employee jailed for four-year employment fraud Kitchen porter at Harrogate District Hospital dishonestly earned £87,000 before... People Managment Magazine (12-Aug-2010)
Europe must bring back border guards to fight illegal immigration, says Sarkozy's party chief The head of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party says Europe should bring back border guards to fight illegal... Mail Online (12-Aug-2010)
Why foreigners are the new working class Salman Rushdie was right when he said that it sometimes seems that the British authorities, no longer capable of exporting... Telegraph Blogs (12-Aug-2010)
FOREIGNERS GET 77% OF NEW JOBS IN BRITAIN AS TOO FOREIGN-born workers are snapping up jobs as Britons languish on benefits, figures revealed yesterday. Daily Express (12-Aug-2010)
Record four out of five jobs going to foreigners between May and June Nearly four out of five new jobs in Britain have gone to foreigners over the past three months, official figures show. Daily Telegraph (12-Aug-2010)
Foreign workers surge by 114,000... but the number of Britons with jobs falls The number of foreign workers has increased by 114,000 in the last year while people born in Britain continued to lose their... Mail Online (12-Aug-2010)
Foreign-born workers get three-quarters of British jobs Workers born outside Britain bagged most of the jobs in the country despite a steep surge in recruitment this year, adding to the worries of unemployed British youths, campaigners have... Irish Sun (12-Aug-2010)
MORE JOBS SNAPPED UP, BUT MOST GO TO IMMIGRANTS NEW jobs in Britain have jumped to a 21-year high but three-quarters of them go to... Daily Star (12-Aug-2010)
Fresh fears over immigration as foreign born workers win three-quarters of new jobs The largest rise in employment for more than 21 years was mainly down to the influx of foreign workers, campaigners said today. Daily Mail (11-Aug-2010)
Press Release
Immigration and the latest employment statistics: Nearly 80% of new jobs have gone to immigrants
August 13, 2010The thrust of the Migrationwatch press release “Immigration has damaged employment prospects for British workers” (below) is reinforced by the employment statistics released on 11 August - seehttp://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/lmsuk0810.pdf.
The bar chart on page 4 and table 8 show that nearly 80% of the increase in employment over the second quarter of 2010 has comprised immigrants.
Employment increased by 188,000 between the first and second quarters of this year but 145,000 of them or 77% went to non UK born workers, that is immigrants.
Many immigrants acquire nationality after some years in Britain but the employment figures for non British nationals are virtually the same as for non British born. This means that those who have entered employment in the last quarter are largely recent immigrants.
Immigration has Damaged Employment Prospects for British Workers
August 12, 2010The mass immigration of the past decade has damaged the employment opportunities of UK born workers in the areas most affected.
This is the conclusion of a new study, from think-tank Migrationwatch, (see Briefing Paper 3.10) issued on the eve of new unemployment figures due out on August 12. It has conducted the first comparison of labour market conditions in the 50 Local Authorities with the highest international immigration with conditions in the 50 with the lowest.
It shows conclusively that areas of the UK that have experienced the highest levels of immigration have higher unemployment levels than areas that have not.
The study also shows that employment rates in these areas are lower compared with areas that have received comparatively little immigration from overseas.
'While properly controlled immigration can be of economic benefit, this demonstrates that the 'open door' policies of the past decade have had a damaging effect on the employment, and therefore the economic prospects and standard of living, of UK born workers in the areas most affected,' said Sir Andrew Green, Migrationwatch chairman.
In London, which has received the highest level of immigrants, the study shows there is a positive relationship between unemployment and net immigration from abroad
For example for every one percentage point increase in the 'international immigration rate' (NIM - Net International Migration expressed as a percentage share of the total population of the Borough concerned.) of a London borough, there is on average an increase of around a fifth of one percentage point in the unemployment rate in that borough.
It also shows that immigration from overseas into London boroughs is associated with a fall in the employment rate of UK-born inhabitants: for every one percentage point increase in the share of immigrants in London boroughs there is a fall of around half a percentage point in the employment rate of UK-born inhabitants.
'This is a very complex area and other factors such as skills levels and the operation of the benefit system are important. But too little attention has been paid to the impact of immigration on British born employment prospects,' said Sir Andrew. 'Our study underlines the importance of getting net immigration down to tens of thousands, as the present government has promised.'
Letter
The Sunday Times
August 8, 2010Migration Patterns
Melanie McDonagh's article ("Bless you, Vicar, for showing our curbs on immigration are a joke", Comment, last week) hit a row of nails on the head and with a touch of sardonic humour. The reality is that of the migrants who come from outside the European Union, only a quarter come here to work. Some will be vital for business. Others will just be cheaper to employ. All will be reducing the incentive for employers to train British workers. The City's voice must be heard, but not exclusively. Immigration has been running out of control, so all sectors should be reined in.
Sir Andrew Green Chairman, Migrationwatch UK
Briefing Paper
Deportation and Administrative Removal
August 1, 2010The subject of deportation is regulated by certain sections of the Immigration Act 1971 and administrative removal is regulated by section 10 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Detailed provisions on both procedures are set out in paragraphs 362 - 395F of the Immigration Rules. Paragraph 362 states that a deportation order authorises the detention pending removal of the person named in it. It also prohibits the person from re-entering the country for so long as it is in force and invalidates any leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom given before the order was made or while it remains in force. Deportation is normally used for the more serious cases, where the Secretary of State deems the person's deportation to be conducive to the public good or where a court recommends deportation in the case of a person over the age of 17 who has been convicted with an offence punishable with imprisonment.
For full document see Briefing Paper 8.45
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