Wednesday, 24 August 2011



A selection of recent media reports

Overseas workers preferred to unskilled school leavers in job market School leavers are being pushed to the back of the jobs queue as Britain's employers increasingly turn to migrant labour to fill vacancies. The Guardian (23-Aug-2011)

Escaped Iraqi immigrant arrested near Brampton Police looking for an Iraqi man who escaped from immigration authorities in north Cumbria have arrested a man. BBC News England (23-Aug-2011)

Manchester Tiger Tiger workers held over immigration Six suspected illegal immigrants have been arrested in Manchester in raids by the UK Border Agency. O BBC News England (23-Aug-2011)

'She's big, black, smokes and likes chicken burgers': The ONLY four things sham marriage husband could tell police about.. As a vicar, Robert Simp Mail Online (23-Aug-2011)

Rights chief urges Europe to make stateless Roma citizens By Megan Rowling LONDON (AlertNet) - European governments should grant citizenship to stateles Alert Net - Trust.org (23-Aug-2011)

UK Border Agency: legal firm boss jailed over immigration scam Last Thursday, a legal advisor from Hayes was jailed for 4.5 years for masterminding a major im Info4 (23-Aug-2011)

Cumbria police hunt escaped Iraqi immigrant Police are continuing to search areas near Carlisle for a man wanted by the UK Border Agency. News & Star (23-Aug-2011)

Police searching Carlisle area for missing immigrant Police are searching for a man wanted by the UK Border Agency who escaped while being transported to BBC News England (22-Aug-2011)

Raids in Chichester for illegal immigrant investigation A Chichester restaurant and property were raided as part of an investigation into illegal immigr Chichester Observer (22-Aug-2011)

HIV benefits cheat A sponging asylum seeker covered up his HIV illness so he could get a job in a Lisburn old folks' home. Denford Farai, 41, put dozens of pensioners at r Belfast Telegraph (21-Aug-2011)

Iain Duncan Smith: Step forward, the Minister for Broken Britain ) The most vicious gang-fight of the week was IDS v Theresa May, one Whitehall source says with a c The Mail On Sunday (21-Aug-2011)

Poll finds Swiss divided over immigration A majority of Swiss are not worried about a rise in immigration as a result of the free movement of people in the Schengen zone, a poll has found. Expatica.com (21-Aug-2011)