Press Releases
Migration Watch UK Comment on Today's Immigration Statistics 23 February, 2011
Sir Andrew Green said "These figures are Labour's legacy to Britain - 3.2 million immigrants, including a quarter of a million in their last year alone. Over half a million students in one year with no interviews before arrival and no checks on departure and a Points Based System that has increased immigration, not reduced it. This is what Labour called "managed migration". It would be hard to imagine, after thirteen years in charge, a more shambolic inheritance."
For statistical details see ONS Migration Statistics Quarterly Report No 8 February, 2011
Immigration Under Labour – Chaos or Conspiracy? 22 February, 2011
Figures due out on Thursday will, for the first time, officially confirm that net foreign immigration under Labour exceeded three million. This is the context for a detailed indictment of the Labour Government’s record on immigration published today in Briefing Paper No 11.24. It forensically examines one of the most significant and far reaching changes ever imposed on the fabric of Britain - despite the wishes of the vast majority of its citizens.
The document, ‘Immigration – Labour’s enduring legacy to Britain’ - from think-tank Migration Watch, has brought together the principal facts and figures resulting from the largest wave of immigration for nearly a thousand years.
To see the full article go to the Press Releases page for February.
Secret Cable plan could double flow of economic migrants 20 February, 2011
Just as the Prime Minister is promising that "this year the government is determined to help deliver many thousands of new jobs", Vince Cable is secretly negotiating a deal that will admit tens of thousands of Indian workers to Britain. The deal is part of a Free Trade Agreement being negotiated between the EU and India which is expected to be signed this spring. India is insisting on access for Indian workers as a condition of a wider agreement that would reduce tariffs on European products and lift some restrictions on businesses bidding for public procurement contracts. The proposed deal will allow Indian companies, which have obtained a service contract in Britain, to send over their own employees to do the work. This would cut out any opportunity for British workers and would also allow Indian companies to undercut British firms employing British workers by using cheaper migrant workers from India…
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said "The secrecy surrounding this deal has gone on long enough. Britain's 2.5 million unemployed have a right to know what is going on and to be told why the Prime Minister's pledges both to help create jobs and to cut back net immigration are being seriously undermined in this way. This scheme makes a nonsense of efforts to limit economic migration"
To see the full article go to the Press Releases page for February.
Comments by MigrationWatch
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 16 February, 2011
According to the Daily Telegraph on 16 February, 2011 Sir John Lawton, in commenting on the report on the environment by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution which he chaired, said that, in the past, the debate around population growth has been dominated by ‘hysterical’ concern around immigration.
Responding, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of MigrationwatchUK said “This is a remarkably inappropriate comment which bears no relation to the report itself. Worse, it ignores the fact that 68% of the officially projected population growth in the UK is a result of immigration. This will mean an extra five million or so people on this island in the next twenty years. That will have a considerable effect on our environment, especially in the South and it is right that the public should be made aware of it”.
Removal and the Rights of Children 16 February, 2011
In a recent case ZH (Tanzania) v, Secretary of State for the Home Department the Supreme Court considered the case of a Tanzanian woman who had been in the United Kingdom for 15 years, who had, in the court’s own words, “an appalling immigration history” and who was resisting an order for her removal to Tanzania because she had two children, now aged 12 and 9, born from a relationship with a British citizen, from whom she is now parted, but who still has contact with the children. The court had to give consideration to the best interests of the children, but had also to consider whether those interests might be outweighed by other considerations, in particular the need to maintain firm and fair immigration control. The court concluded that the mother as the principal carer of the children should be allowed to stay. More details of the case are to be found in legal Briefing Paper No 8.50.
Extract from an interview 17 February, 2011
The following is an extract from Iain Duncan-Smith’s interview on the reform of the welfare system on the Today Programme at 08.10 am on Thursday, 17 February: “Of course the economy needs to grow to provide more jobs, even though right now in the Job Centres we have seen an increase in jobs available to about half a million each week… However, and this is the important caveat, let’s look back for a second over a period of almost unrivalled growth, 16 quarters of continuous growth created about 2 million new jobs in the UK. And here’s the conundrum, of those two million jobs over half went to foreign nationals. And this is the problem we are trying to solve. What we had during that period was about 4-4.5 million people permanently on benefits, British people, whilst we were having to bring in people from overseas to do what are the low-skilled, even semi-skilled jobs that should have been available to all sorts of people over the UK, but they were simply unable or unwilling to do that work and that’s what this new system is about.
The problem here is that as we grow the jobs… our problem will still be that the tax payer will have to fund people to stay out of work whilst foreign nationals have to come in to do the work that British people can’t do. That makes no common sense at all.
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