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A selection of recent media reports

A compromise that betrays a basic Tory ideal
Telegraph View: The Coalition must not surrender to a failed Left-wing philosophy on social...
Telegraph.co.uk (15-Aug-2010)

LABOURS EURO-CRIME LEGACY
CHICKENS released during the Blair-Brown years are coming home to...
Sunday Express (15-Aug-2010)

Bogus boy asylum seeker who claimed he was a child despite being 20 makes Facebook getaway
An asylum seeker who claimed he was a child but was actually 20 has tried to avoid deportation by going on the run...
Mail Online (15-Aug-2010)

JOBLESS IMMIGRANTS SQUATTING IN FILTHY HOVELS ACROSS BRITAIN
IN THE week when 15 illegal immigrant squats were found in Peterborough, Daily Star Sunday investigators...
Daily Star (15-Aug-2010)

IMMIGRATION: BRITAIN THROUGH THE BACK DOOR
MILLIONS of outsiders are gaining European Union citizenship and with it the right to live in Britain through the back door.
Scottish Daily Express (15-Aug-2010)

Joan Smith: Let's call sex-trafficking by its real name slavery
There is no shortage of convicted sex-traffickers in English prisons. Two defendants werejailed for three years and...
The Independent (15-Aug-2010)

SEVEN KEY FACTS

Net immigration quadrupled to 237,000 a year between 1997 and 2007. In 2008 it was 163,000. 3million immigrants have arrived since 1997.

A migrant still arrives
every minute.

We must build a new
home every six minutes for new migrants.

England is already, with Holland, the most crowded country in Europe
(except Malta)

Immigration will add 7 million to the population of England in the next 24 years - that is
7 times the population
of Birmingham.

To keep the population
of the UK below 70 million, immigration must be reduced by 70%. Government measures so far may reduce it by 12%.

WHAT THEY SAY

In terms of immigration, what you can see is that there's a cap going to be put in place and, yes, that is with the ambition of getting to levels of net migration that were prevalent in the 80s and 90s, which is tens of thousands not hundreds of thousands.

From the Prime Minister's Press Conference on 20 May, 2010, launching the Coalition's Programme for Government.

...there has also been a direct impact on the wages, terms and conditions of too many people � in communities ill-prepared to deal with the reality of globalisation, including the one I represent. The result was, as many of us found in the election, our arguments on immigration were not good enough.
Extract from an article in
The Observer, 6 June, 2010 by the Rt Hon Mr Ed Balls MP
(Labour)

People didn't believe the authorities knew what they were doing and there's a very good reason for that - they didn't.
Phil Woolas, Immigration Minister, reported in The Sun
(21 October, 2008)

I have made this point many times before but can we please stop saying that Migrationwatch forecasts are wrong. I have pointed out before that Migrationwatch assumptions are often below the Government Actuarys Department high migration variant.
An internal Home Office email they were obliged to release to MigrationWatch
(29 July, 2003)