Saturday, 17 March 2012


A selection of recent media reports

Tories Announce Rules to Crack Down on Bogus Marriages for Immigration It seems like the federal government of Canada has finally taken a stern stand against marr Library Base (17-Mar-2012)

'Health Tourists?EUR(TM) Will Pay The Price For Their Nhs Debts The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news i Library Base (17-Mar-2012)

Spain: No Legal Way In The first ever Immigration Act in Spain was passed in 1985. Before that, the big waves of migration had either been outwards (first to the ex- INTERNATIONAL VIEW POINT (17-Mar-2012)

SHAMEFUL A SEX offender has prevented the Home Office from deporting him to Somalia - and is now trying to claim compensation. Bashir Barrow, 51, who is living in a cou This is Bristol (17-Mar-2012)

Hands up who needs a new primary school Rising immigration and decades of government inaction have left our classrooms full to bursting. Telegraph.co.uk (17-Mar-2012)

Brodie Clark receives £100,000 over Border Agency row - but no one is to blame The senior civil servant at the centre of the passport checks fiasco has received mor Telegraph.co.uk (17-Mar-2012)

Health boards in Wales write off thousands of pounds owed by foreign nationals Cash-strapped health boards have written off thousands of pounds owed by foreig Wales Online (17-Mar-2012)

Two illegal workers caught in swoop on Grantham takeaway Illegal workers have been caught working at a county takeaway. Officers from the UK Border Agency swoo This is Lincolnshire (17-Mar-2012)

Chris Bryant: Things are desperate when people prefer immigration limbo to deportation A Political Life The Independent (17-Mar-2012)

UK immigration outlines new security standards for UK borders UK Immigration Minister Damien Green announced that there will be specific minimum standard UK Immigration (17-Mar-2012)

Rise in immigrant babies will give UK younger population Following an increase in babies born to immigrant parents in the UK, the country has gone from having one of E UK Immigration (17-Mar-2012)

Illegal workers arrested at restaurant Immigration officers raided a takeaway restaurant in Penzance and arrested three men allegedly working there illeg This is Devon (17-Mar-2012)

'Immigrant crimewave' warning: Foreign nationals were accused of a QUARTER of all crimes in London Foreigners are accused of more than one in four crimes committe Mail Online (16-Mar-2012)

Timebomb under our primary schools: How uncontrolled immigration has created primaries with 1,000 pupils and forced chil.. PUBLISHED: Mail Online (16-Mar-2012)

ANGER AS SOMALI PERVERT WINS RIGHT TO SUE BRITAIN A SOMALI sex offender who sidestepped Home Office attempts to deport him yesterday won the right to sue the Government f Express.co.uk (16-Mar-2012)

E-Borders system to be 'genuinely secure' - Green The government has said its e-Borders programme will be able to pre-check every non-European Economic Area (EEA) airline visitor to the UK from next month. IDG News Service (15-Mar-2012)

Crooked Hayes legal advisor told to pay up A JAILED legal advisor who masterminded a lucrative immigration scam must pay back nearly quarter of a million pounds, or s Uxbridge Gazette (15-Mar-2012)

BBC News - Six Scottish colleges face ban on recruiting foreign students Six Scottish colleges are facing a ban on the recruitment of foreign students after fail BBC News Scotland (15-Mar-2012)

Debate is Europe's best hope against extremism The standoff between Europe's secular, Islamist and sectarian forces can only be solved by constructi Guardian.co.uk (15-Mar-2012)

Migrant couple jailed after sham marriage in Cambridge Davut Taycur and Agne Marcinkevicute Cambridge News (15-Mar-2012)