Wednesday, 20 April 2011

A selection of recent media reports

A career thug was shipped back to Britain from Australia, so why can't we do the same thing?
On the other side of the world, a migrant convicted of the attempted murder o
Mail Online (20-Apr-2011)

BID TO SLASH MIGRANT LEVELS ‘ONLY AN AMBITION
DAVID Cameron was accused of backtracking on immigration yesterday after he claimed slashing it to 1980s levels is an
Scottish Daily Express (20-Apr-2011)

Bomb plotter's release hopes raised
Bomb plotter Nezar Hindawi, who was jailed for 45 years over his bid to blow up an Israeli airliner, has had his application f
London Evening Standard (19-Apr-2011)

EU Med states under pressure from unrest migrants
Description -- (NICOSIA) - Five southern Mediterranean countries on Tuesday called on the Europea
EUbusiness.com (19-Apr-2011)

Miliband: People 'lost trust' in Labour on immigration
Past errors in immigration policy contributed to voters in the south of England "losing trust" in Labour
BBC News UK (19-Apr-2011)

Judge lets bigamist bride walk free after she helped police track down immigrant sham marriage broker
A bigamist bride who married an illegal immigrant in a sham ma
Mail Online (19-Apr-2011)

Sponsored by Drugs factory ‘farmer’ jailed
An illegal immigrant has been found guilty of setting up and running a cannabis factory capable of netting thousa
Northants Evening Telegraph (19-Apr-2011)

Cameron's backtrack: Plan to slash number of immigrants 'is ambition, not coalition policy', PM says
Reducing the number of new immigrants to 1980s levels is an 'am
Mail Online (19-Apr-2011)

David Cameron: Immigration cut is ambition not policy
Reducing the number of new immigrants to 1980s levels is an "ambition" rather than Government policy
London Evening Standard (19-Apr-2011)

EU threw its weight behind France's decision temporarily to shut its borders to trains carrying African migrants from It..
The European Commission on Monday threw its weight behind France's decision temporarily to shut its borders to trains carrying African migrants from Italy, saying it did not breach European Union rules.
Balkans.com Business News (19-Apr-2011)

WHY CANT WE DO THAT? AUSTRALIA SHIPS CONVICT BACK HOME TO BRITAIN
A BRITON who moved to Australia with his family as a boy of six has been deported back to the UK afte
Sunday Express (19-Apr-2011)

Trust could pay to fly foreign patients home
COLCHESTER’S hospital trust is considering paying to fly foreign patients home to stop them running up big bills
Gazette News (18-Apr-2011)

North African immigrants straining Europe's unity
DON MELVIN Associated Press= BRUSSELS (AP) — A bitter dispute over a flood of North African immigrants is w
Guardian.co.uk (18-Apr-2011)

Eurosceptic, nationalist electoral voice comes of age
Description -- (BRUSSELS) - The arrival of the True Finns on Finland's electoral map is only the la
EUbusiness.com (18-Apr-2011)

Fake Builders Steal £2m From Olympics Team
A gang of conmen stole more than £2m from the Olympic Development Authority by pretending to work for a building firm,
Sky News (18-Apr-2011)

Agnes's killer had been freed by the courts
A gangster convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Agnes Sina-Inakoju was an illegal immigrant who killed after he was
London Evening Standard (18-Apr-2011)

Scandal of child detention at Heathrow: Watchdog slams 'degrading' rooms without any windows
Children are being detained overnight in "wholly unsati
London Evening Standard (18-Apr-2011)

NICK CLEGG WADES INTO IMMIGRATION ROW
NICK Clegg yesterday risked reopening the coalition’s divisions over immigration policy after distancing himself fr
Daily Express (18-Apr-2011)

Immigration police swoop on town
Raids have been carried out in Dumfries by the UK Border Agency as part of an investigation into immigration crime, it emerged yeste
News.Scotsman.com (18-Apr-2011)

'Don't exaggerate immigration danger': EU chief
Description -- (PARIS) - EU President Herman Van Rompuy warned member states on Sunday not to exaggerate th
EUbusiness.com (17-Apr-2011)