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A selection of recent media reports

New UK immigration rules lift stateless people from limbo
LONDON (AlertNet) - Britain has changed its immigration rules to enable stateless people to escap
Alert Net - Trust.org (19-Apr-2013)

May resists immigrant number call
The Home Secretary has resisted further pressure to release official estimates on the number of Romanians and Bulgarians...
Bourne Local (19-Apr-2013)

Qatada: May accused of giving in to Europe
HOME Secretary Theresa May was yesterday accused of 'craven surrender' to European judges over bids to deport hate pr
Express.co.uk (19-Apr-2013)

Abu Qatada: May 'deeply frustrated' at legal obstacles to deportation
Home Secretary Theresa May has said she is "deeply frustrated" at continued legal ob
BBC News - UK Politics (18-Apr-2013)

Three held in immigration raid on Jericho food outlets
THREE workers were arrested during an immigration raid on two food outlets in Oxford yesterday. 
Oxford Times (18-Apr-2013)

New report reveals scale of UK asylum decisions overturned on appeal
The number of decisions overturned on appeal is testament to on-going problems with the asy
Amnesty. org.uk (18-Apr-2013)

New bid to challenge Qatada ruling
The Government has asked permission to take its fight to remove hate preacher Abu Qatada from the UK to the highest cour...
Suffolk Free Press (18-Apr-2013)

Questions over credibility of border credibility interviews
Overseas students rejected on 'arbitrary' grounds, UKCISA report suggests
Times Higher Education (18-Apr-2013)

Will we ever be rid of Abu Qatada? Home Office seeks Supreme Court appeal permission
THE Government has asked permission to take its fight to remove hate pre
Express.co.uk (17-Apr-2013)

Government launches new bid to challenge Abu Qatada ruling
The Government has asked permission to take its fight to remove hate preacher Abu Qatada from th
The Independent (17-Apr-2013)

British citizenship test tightened to include English test
People applying for British citizenship are to be set a compulsory English exam.
BBC News (17-Apr-2013)

Former UK immigration boss says system has been out of control since 2000
The former head of the UK Border Force (UKBF) Tony Smith says that Britain lost control of its imm
UK Immigration (17-Apr-2013)

'Why did the Home Office kick me out?': Failed asylum seeker kicked out of home despite agreeing to repatriation
A FAILED asylum seeker was kicked out of her Home
This is Staffordshire (17-Apr-2013)

Baby smugglers get jail terms cut
The Court of Appeal has cut jail terms handed to a childless couple involved in smuggling an abandoned African baby into...
This is Cheshire (17-Apr-2013)

Fifteen people arrested during two day police and council crackdown in Newham
Fifteen people were arrested during a police operation aimed at cracking down o
Newham Recorder (16-Apr-2013)

'Bride' at sham marriage wins cut to sentence
A WOMAN who was the "bride" in a sham marriage at a Bristol church has had her jail sentence cut by a year. Susie Nun
This is Bristol (16-Apr-2013)

HOME OFFICE STAFF TO START STRIKES
Staff at the Home Office will go on strike in the latest phase of three months of industrial action by civil servants in...
Daily Star (16-Apr-2013)

'Cowboy' immigration advisor jailed after he was caught working illegally THREE times
A 'cowboy' immigration adviser who conned two asylum seekers out o
The Mail On Sunday (15-Apr-2013)

Man who overstayed his holiday faces deportation to Brazil
A resident has been left regretting that his road rage got the better of him when he keyed three vehicles
Metropolitan Police (15-Apr-2013)

Older employees are ''untapped resource''
British employees in their 50s and 60s are an untapped resource and must be encouraged to stay in work - otherwise t
Publicservice.co.uk (15-Apr-2013)

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Press Releases

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Comment on Revelations about Migration Observatory
15 April, 2013
Commenting on this weekend’s revelations about the Migration Observatory, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said:
"The Migration Observatory press release avoided the central point, namely their involvement in a programme called ‘Changing Minds’ together with a number of other pro-immigration organisations.
I was astonished to discover that they are part of a coordinated effort by a group of pro-immigration charities which is clearly a propaganda operation designed to change public opinion on the present massive levels of immigration.
The Migration Observatory has declared their three major funders but have not declared the common objective behind the funding."

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Briefing Papers

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Legal Aid in Immigration and Asylum Cases
18 April, 2013
As always with these legal briefing papers it is stressed that they are not published as authoritative legal advice but for general guidance and information for users of the Migration Watch website.
Restrictions on the availability of legal aid are imposed by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. the provisions of which on legal aid were brought into effect in early April 2013. This is a substantial enactment dealing with three major subjects. Of its 154 sections 62 relate to legal aid, which is made the responsibility of the Lord Chancellor (otherwise the Secretary of State for the Justice Department), who is required by section 4 of the Act to appoint a civil servant as Director of Legal Aid Casework. Section 8 defines the general scope of civil legal services, including providing advice and representation in relation to legal proceedings.
To see the full Briefing Paper No 8.70 click here.

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18 Bogus Arguments for Mass Immigration
11 April, 2013
Immigration Mythology Briefing Paper 12.4 has been updated. The updated paper outlines the many myths that are put forward by the mass immigration lobby in support of the current levels of immigration and dispels each myth in turn.

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What They Say

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The London Evening Standard – 28 March, 2013: Immigration: why the public is right by David Goodhart
8 April, 2013
“I had not given immigration much thought.…….though as a journalist of Leftish sympathies I was reflexively in favour of it…” “What changed that was hearing Tory intellectual David Willetts speak about the risk of too much diversity undermining the moral consensus on which the welfare state depends.”
“It seemed like such a good idea that I’d never thought of.”… “There was an element of intellectual opportunism about it. I thought he was on to a really, really big thing.”
“Unlike most members of my political tribe of north London liberals I have come to believe that public opinion is broadly right about immigration. Britain has had too much of it, too quickly, especially in recent years, and much of it, especially for the least well off, has not produced self-evident economic benefit.”
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