A selection of recent media reports

Government database flooded with tip-offs over illegal immigrants
A new government database is being flooded with thousands of complaints about illegal
Telegraph.co.uk (17-May-2012)
Britain 'forced to leave EU if Scotland separates'
Scottish independence could see the UK kicked out of the European Union and forced to surrender its £3 billi
Telegraph.co.uk (17-May-2012)
Illegal immigrant jailed for 12 months asks to be deported
ILLEGAL immigrant Isa Teryaki faces being deported after using a false Lithuanian passport to try to get
This is Staffordshire (16-May-2012)
One tip-off every six minutes to the illegal immigrants database
A giant new Government database is being flooded with tip-offs from the public about illegal immi
Mail Online (16-May-2012)
Home Office-approved adviser who made £1million through helping immigrants stay in the UK jailed for 10 years
A Home Office-approved adviser and his wife who made
The Mail On Sunday (16-May-2012)
Hundreds of Olympic athletes will have to use Stansted because Heathrow cannot cope with Games rush
Hundreds of Olympic athletes and coaches will be force
London Evening Standard (16-May-2012)
Bid to hear passengers' border queue views blocked
Ministers are blocking plans to publish passengers' views on nightmare border queues and other delays, the Sta
London Evening Standard (16-May-2012)
Minister blames wrong type of wind for chaos at Heathrow
Emergency plans to hire 70 more staff at troubled Heathrow were announced by the Immigration Ministe
The Independent (16-May-2012)
Almost 4,000 foreign criminals living free in UK after dodging deportation
Almost 4,000 foreign criminals are living free in Britain as they dodg
Metro (15-May-2012)
MP concerned at 80 percent illegl immigrant hike
DUMFRIES and Galloway MP Russell Brown has expressed his dismay at shock figures which reveal an 80 percent hike i
The Galloway Gazette (15-May-2012)
Does Miliband's reshuffle signal a lurch to the left?
Labour leader Ed Miliband's surprise appointment tonight of radical left-winger Jon Cruddas to head up Labou
The Mail On Sunday (15-May-2012)
Joan tweets in fury at Theresa May over Heathrow hold-up... And look out Mrs May, she has 68,000 followers
Joan Collins yesterday joined the attack on Britain's s
Mail Online (15-May-2012)
Long queues at Heathrow Airport? That's just the wind, says Immigration Minister
Long waits for passengers at the UK's airports will depend on the wind, the Immig
London Evening Standard (15-May-2012)
Extra border staff to be hired for post-Olympics student influx
Seventy extra border staff are to be urgently recruited from within Whitehall to av
Guardian.co.uk (15-May-2012)
Visa appeals to be scrapped for many visiting family in UK
Most foreign nationals will no longer be allowed to appeal if they are refused a visa to visit family member
BBC News - UK Politics (15-May-2012)
'Forced labour' of migrants in UK food industry
Some migrant workers face threatening and inhumane conditions in parts of the UK food industry, a report claims.
BBC News (15-May-2012)
Council houses are homes for the poor, not assets for the rich
Abuse of the council housing system is rife in London. Hammersmith's bid to tackle it is to be applaude
London Evening Standard (15-May-2012)
Students ''should be in immigration stats''
The government has been accused of cooking the figures by including overseas students in immigration totals so
Publicservice.co.uk (15-May-2012)
Student visa 'chaos' led to rush of illegal immigrants
Immigration chiefs were accused yesterday of presiding over "complete chaos" when the bungled introduct
The Independent (15-May-2012)
Ministers 'playing immigration numbers game' by including students
Ministers have included overseas in the government's net migration count becau
Guardian.co.uk (14-May-2012)
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Genuine refugees

By Sir Andrew Green, Chairman, MigrationwatchUK
© Copyright of Sir Andrew Green
The Independent, London, 15 February, 2005


Sir: Dr Grenville's letter (14 February) was strangely acerbic.

We do, indeed, have a number of Jewish refugees in our village and I meet them quite frequently but I do not regard them as immigrants. Having lived in Britain for 60 years, they are fully part of our community. Nor has Migrationwatch ever opposed granting asylum to genuine refugees, as these evidently were.

Our concern is not about existing immigrant communities, but with the rapid increase in immigration which, having trebled in recent years, is placing a strain on our social services and on the cohesion of society.

© Copyright of Sir Andrew Green
The Independent 15 February 2005