Tuesday, 14 June 2011

A selection of recent media reports

Foleshill illegal immigrant jailed for £8k benefits fraud - but can stay in UK
AN ILLEGAL immigrant who used false documents to gain work and still pocketed thousands
Coventry Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)

Changes to the Immigration Rules: Written ministerial statement by Damian Green
Summary: This is a written ministerial statement by Immigration Minister
info4local.gov.uk (13-Jun-2011)

UK Immigration: Student Visas To Be Reduced By over 250,000 But Would Cost The UK £2.5 Billion
The number of student visas would be reduced by 260,000 by 2015 or by 52,00
eGov Monitor (13-Jun-2011)

One in a hundred Slovakians has come to live in Britain
The top five nations fuelling the rise in Britain's immigration are all from Eastern Europe, it emerged toda
Mail Online (13-Jun-2011)

France to deport more Romanians after discovering they are behind 80% of street crime
The vast majority of street robberies in Paris are now carried out by the
Mail Online (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign students cuts 'less deep'
Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain will only have half the effect previou
Guardian.co.uk (13-Jun-2011)

Student migration curbs could cost UK £2.4bn
Plans to cut the number of foreign students arriving in the UK could cost £2.4bn more than they save, according to o
BBC (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign students cuts 'less deep'
Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain will only have half the effect previou
Press Association (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign students cuts 'less deep'
Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain will only have half the effect previou
London Evening Standard (13-Jun-2011)

Student visas to be cut by a quarter of a million by 2015
The number of student visas issued over the next five years is to be cut by 260,000, according to the Home Off
Times Higher Education (13-Jun-2011)

'Immigrant crisis in the making for UK'
MPs are warning of a crisis as tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East are smuggled into E
London Evening Standard (13-Jun-2011)

Police 'covered up' violent campaign to turn London area 'Islamic'
Victims say that officers in the borough of Tower Hamlets have ignored or downplayed outbreaks of hate crime, and suppressed evidence implicating Muslims in them, because they fear being accused of racism.
The Daily Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)

High cost of compensation culture and 'human rights'
A race equality campaigner has cost taxpayers more than £1 million by bringing a string of discrimination claims – several of them against anti-racism groups.
The Daily Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)

Benefits cap: Ministers could ditch £26k state welfare hand-outs cap on claims
) Tory ministers are to backtrack on their pledge to cap state welfare hand-outs a
The Mail On Sunday (13-Jun-2011)

102 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants we can't deport
More than 100 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants have beaten deportation under controversial “right to family life” laws in the past year.
The Daily Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)

Why doesn't Rowan Williams speak out about illiteracy, immigration and the undemocratic rule of Brussels?
I have been thinking over the weekend of what the Arc
Telegraph Blogs (13-Jun-2011)

Cuts in foreign students scaled back
The Government will today unveil plans to cut the number of foreign students in Britain by just half the figure previous
Telegraph.co.uk (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign criminals avoid deportation because of "right to family life"
VIOLENT foreign criminals and illegal immigrants are avoiding the boot from Britain becau
Mirror.co.uk (13-Jun-2011)

WAR ON BOGUS STUDENTS TO CUT MIGRANTS
A CRACKDOWN on abuse of the student visa system should cut overall immigration by more then 200,000 over the next four years, it wa
Scottish Daily Express (13-Jun-2011)

JUST WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CALLED BRITISH THESE DAYS?
THE nation state is the greatest vehicle ever invented by mankind for the promotion of democracy and prospe
Scottish Daily Express (13-Jun-2011)