Port security clash is all about money, insists MSP
THE row over the decision by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) to axe three port posts at Stranraer and.
The Scotsman (09-Sep-2010)
Conservatives - Reforming the UK's Immigration System
Immigration minister Damian Green confirmed last night that the government will look at...
News on News (09-Sep-2010)
IMMIGRATION: £100M JETS BILL FOR DEPORTING FAILED ASYLUM SEEKERS
DEPORTING failed asylum seekers has cost Britain £100million, with many sent home on...
Daily Star (09-Sep-2010)
£100 million spent on asylum deportation flights
The Government spent more than £100 million on flights deporting failed asylum seekers,...
The Independent (08-Sep-2010)
Bogus colleges 'used as cover for illegal immigration'
A doctor and a solicitor set up two fake colleges to help illegal immigrants gain leave to remain.
Telegraph - Fashion (08-Sep-2010)
ASYLUM: COVER-UP OVER GROWING BACKLOG OF CASES
IMMIGRATION officials were last night accused of covering up a massive backlog of asylum claims...
Express.co.uk (08-Sep-2010)
Letters
The Poorest do not Migrate
By Matthew Pollard
Executive Director, Migration Watch UK
The Independent, London, 8 September, 2010
Michael McGuffie (letter, 6 September) links immigration controls with people being kept in poverty in the third world. This is not the case.
Immigration controls on legal routes to the UK do not affect the poorest people, as they would be required to pay for flights, visas and, in the case of students, their study programme. Illegal immigration often requires a payment to exploitative traffickers. Lax enforcement of immigration controls encourages illegal attempts that can end in the sort of tragedy mentioned in Mr McGuffie's letter.
Opening up our borders is not the solution, because of the vast numbers of people involved. Better to have well-published strong controls that would deter would-be illegal migrants while taking firm measures to encourage development of a kind that will help the poorest in third-world countries.
Immigration Curbs Are Vital For Britain's Future
By Sir Andrew Green
Chairman, Migration Watch UK
The Sunday Times, London, 5 September, 2010
Dominic Lawson ("How Tories regret the immigration promise", Comment, last week) was right about the need for welfare reform but he seems to have entirely failed to grasp the significance of the present mass immigration for our society as a whole.
The reality is that we either integrate or we disintegrate, and integration is quite simply impossible with a migrant arriving every minute. The latest figures for net immigration confirm that the UK population is on course for 70 million in 20 years and 80 million in mid century. We must get immigration under control and economic migration must play its part. Not all current economic migrants are essential. Why, for example, are we allowing every year about 25,000 foreign graduates of British universities so stay on for two years competing for jobs against British graduates who face an unemployment rate of nearly 10%? Nor is immigration the long-term answer to skills shortages, as employers recognise.
Net immigration from the European Union has averaged only about 27,000 a year over the past five years while flows to and from the new east European members are coming into balance. This means that EU migration is only about 15% of net foreign migration. The long-term pressures will come from the Third World; tough action is needed on bogus studentsand marriages designed to circumvent immigration controls.
The public feels helpless. It wants action. For the first time we have a government committed to a clear objective to reduce net immigration. All strength to its arm.
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