A selection of recent media reports
Can a person disappear in modern Britain?
The UK Border Agency has lost track of 124,000 asylum seekers and migrant applicants. But how easy is it to disappear witho
Channel 4 News (04-Nov-2011)
Stowaway illegal immigrant who committed 20 offences is awarded £17,000 compensation after being 'unlawfully' jail..
An illegal immigran
Mail Online (04-Nov-2011)
Minimum salary threshold of £35k would reduce non-EU migrants settling in UK
) The number of migrant workers settling in the UK would be cut by two-thirds if a minimum
The Mail On Sunday (04-Nov-2011)
Skilled migrants could need minimum salary
A report has called on the Government to cut the number of skilled migrants who stay in the UK by two-thirds by introducing a mi
PoliticsHome (04-Nov-2011)
Court gives £17,000 to detained illegal immigrant
An illegal immigrant has been awarded £17,360 at the High Court for being wrongly imprisoned.
BBC News (04-Nov-2011)
Number of migrant workers settling in UK 'could be cut'
The number of workers settling in the UK would be cut by two-thirds if there were a minimum salary threshold o
BBC News (04-Nov-2011)
UK border officials have 'lost' enough asylum seekers to fill Cambridge
Blundering immigration officials have lost track of enough asylum seekers and mig
Metro (04-Nov-2011)
UK Border Agency attacked for 'dumping' missing cases
MPs have accused the UK Border Agency of losing track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants equiva
BBC News (04-Nov-2011)
Deported three times, but migrant came back to kill
An illegal immigrant who murdered his ex-girlfriend had already been deported from Britain three times, a co
Telegraph.co.uk (04-Nov-2011)
Rise in 'lost' asylum seekers cases
Border officials have lost track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants the size of Cambridge, a critical report by MPs has
Guardian.co.uk (04-Nov-2011)
UK Border Agency 'dumped' 124,000 cases
The UK Border Agency has been accused of losing track of a "population of asylum seekers and migrants". The Home Affa
PoliticsHome (04-Nov-2011)
124,000 Migrants 'Lost' By Border Agency
Tweet Border officials have lost track of 124,000 asylum seekers and migrants - a population the size of Cambridge, acc
LBC (04-Nov-2011)
RISE IN 'LOST' ASYLUM SEEKERS CASES
Border officials have lost track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants the size of Cambridge, a critical report by MPs has
Daily Star (04-Nov-2011)
MORE DEPORTATIONS PLEASE
ONE reason the authorities \u0093lose\u0094 so many asylum seekers is that they are so useless at deporting those whose applications have fail
Express.co.uk (04-Nov-2011)
124,000 asylum seekers and migrants 'lost' in six months
ENOUGH asylum seekers and migrants to fill a city the size of Cambridge have been \u201Clost\u201D by border official
Mirror.co.uk (04-Nov-2011)
KILLER WAS DEPORTED 3 TIMES
AN illegal immigrant who murdered his ex-girlfriend by pushing her off a bridge into a busy road smuggled himself back to the UK in a lorry a
Scottish Daily Express (04-Nov-2011)
Press Releases
In relation to the MAC’s Review of the transitional restrictions on access of Bulgarian and Romanian nationals to the UK labour market, Sir Andrew Green said:
“The MAC have got this absolutely right. It would be intolerable to have another inflow of East Europeans when unemployment is running at 2.5 million.”
Commenting on the MAC report on Settlement rights of migrants in Tier 1 and Tier 2, Sir Andrew Green said:
“This is a critical step in the right direction. Salary must be the key. Breaking the almost automatic link is vital if net migration is to be reduced to a level which will keep the UK population below 70 million, as demanded by our e-petition”
Migration Watch UK E-Petition: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/19658
The higher population projections published by the ONS last week have implications for the number of new homes required to house future immigrants to Britain.
The government’s projections of future households are calculated largely on the basis of the population projections. The most recent set were published in November 2010 (based on the 2008 based population projections) and are an important part of the evidence base for assessing future housing demand.
The 2008 household projections showed a 27% increase between 2008 and 2033 with an average annual increase of 232,000 households. However, if there had been no net migration the increase would have been only 149,000 a year – so about 83,000 households a year, on average, were expected to result from net migration; that is about 2,075,000 over the period.
The details of international migration to England are not yet available but an estimate based on the difference between net migration into the UK in the 2010 projection compared with the 2008 projection gives a difference between the two of 569,000 over the next 25 years. This implies that net migration into the UK is now assumed to be some 12.5% higher than in the previous population projections. Multiplying this into the additional household numbers (2,081,000), which are projected solely as a result of migration, in the 2010 household projections, gives an additional 260,000 homes required over the 25 years to 2034/5.
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said “This is a further indication of the extent of pressure on housing that stems from the present massive levels of immigration. It can only add to the pressures on our countryside and especially the green belt.”
Notes to Editors:
- The 2010 Household Projections are at:
- The latest population projections are at:http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_235886.pdf
Migration Watch UK have today launched an e-petition calling on the government to stabilise the population of the UK and, certainly, to keep it well below 70 million.
The new official population projections issued last week show our population hitting 70 million in 16 years. This is on the assumption that net immigration will continue at 200,000 a year compared to almost 240,000 last year. The UK population was last estimated in 2010 at 62.3 million.
This population increase of more than 7 million is the equivalent of building seven cities the size of Birmingham or fourteen the size of Manchester or Bristol and about two thirds of it (just over 5 million) will be due to future immigration. Immigration will have to be sharply reduced to about 40,000 a year to stabilise our population.
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said ‘Labour permitted foreign immigration of over three million in the face of strongly opposed public opinion. Politicians need reminding that this is an issue that is consistently one of the top concerns of voters and that it must be addressed, and soon. It is time to stop listening to those who support and, often, make money from the immigration ‘industry’ and consider the views of the people most directly affected. This, at last, is an opportunity for the man in the street to make his views heard where it counts.’
Notes to Editors:
2 100,000 signatures are required for the e-petition to be sent to the Back Bench Committee to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
3 The e-petition can be found at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/19658
4 The 2010-based Population Projections can be found at:http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_235886.pdf
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