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A selection of recent media reports

Fake Hull bride and groom admit marriage scam
A BRIDE and groom have admitted taking part in a sham marriage. The pair were part of a gang who are alleged to have organis
This is Hull and East Riding (10-Apr-2013)

University's student visa ban lifted
By Helen Warrell, Public Policy Correspondent Numbers game £20m Cost of visa licence suspension to London Met 60 Nu
Financial Times Print Edition (UK) (10-Apr-2013)

£1,200 human rights law payout to migrant rapist
HUMAN rights judges sparked outrage yesterday when they ordered Britain to hand a dangerous immigrant rapist
Express.co.uk (10-Apr-2013)

Anger at cover-up over new surge in migrants
A MIGRATION secrecy row broke out last night after ministers were accused of keeping the British people in the dark abou
Express.co.uk (10-Apr-2013)

Press Releases

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The Prime Minister's Immigration Speech
25 March, 2013

Commenting on David Cameron's speech on immigration on 25 March 2013, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: 

"It is surely only fair that everybody should contribute to the welfare system before they can draw benefits. The devil is often in the detail but this speech sets out a broad agenda for tightening access to the welfare state and it is the right one."

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Briefing Papers

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Briefing Note on Social Housing and Immigration
25 March, 2013

Demand exceeds supply

1  The Prime Minister’s speech proposed that immigrants should wait 2-5 years before joining the waiting list which, in England, has grown dramatically in recent years from around a million in 2001 to two million today (Local Authority Housing Statistics).  

Immigration Status and Eligibility

2  Currently EEA nationals who are habitually resident in the UK have to be treated exactly the same as British citizens in their application for social housing. This in effect means that EEA nationals can join the social housing register from day one.

3  Nationals from outside the EU can join the social housing register if they have Indefinite Leave to Remain or have been granted refugee status.

See the full Briefing Paper No 7.16.

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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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