Come To Slough, Everyone Else Has ..the Legal Tangle
by Sir Andrew GreenThe Sunday Times, News Review, London, Some days ago a newspaper published a photograph of 21 membersof a Roma family. Apparently there are another 80, all relatives andall newly arrived since Romania joined the EU in January. A socialworker in Slough explained she had nine teenage Roma girls, several ofwhom were pregnant, […]
Counting The Costs Of Increasing Immigration
A Letter from Sir Andrew Green, The Times, London Sir, The pace of immigration is 25 times that of the only two numerically significant immigrations in the past 1,000 years of English history – the Huguenots in the late 17th century and the Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is clear that we […]
‘this Would Only Make A Bad Situation Worse’
CommentaryBy Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UKThe Daily Telegraph Welcome to Great Britain – the softest touch in the world. That is themessage sent out by yesterday’s demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Itmay have been well intentioned – but it was also deeply misguided. Theimmigration lobby, together with some church leaders are proposing thatillegal immigrants […]
Economics Of Migration
A letter from Sir Andrew GreenThe Tablet, London Your leader article (“What migrants do for us”, 6 January) described as “tendentious” Migrationwatch analysis which suggested that the economic benefit of migration is marginal. Some government ministers still claim that immigrants comprise 8 per cent of the workforce while contributing 10 per cent of GDP. This has been […]
“strangers Into Citizens”?
IntroductionThe Roman Catholic Church and others are supporting a “strangers into citizens”campaign. This note summarises the case against it. The ProposalThe proposal is that “undocumentedmigrants” who have been living (illegally) in Britain for four yearsshould be allowed to earn citizenship over a further two year periodduring which they would be allowed to work, provided that they […]
“Strangers into citizens”? | Migration Watch UK
IntroductionThe Roman Catholic Church and others are supporting a “strangers into citizens” campaign. This note summaries the case against it. The ProposalThe proposal is that “undocumented migrants” who have been living (illegally) in Britain for four years should be allowed to earn citizenship over a further two year period during which they would be allowed […]
Election outcome could be determined by ‘non-citizens’ | Migration Watch UK
The result of a close election, whether local or national, might well be affected by nearly 1 million non – British citizens from the Commonwealth currently resident in the UK who, in a hang-over from the past, have the right to vote here, says a new report out today. Furthermore there are no checks on […]
Immigration and the UK Voting System
Summary 1. The right of all Commonwealth citizens to vote in all British elections is an anachronism that should be removed. It devalues the concept of citizenship which the government is seeking to encourage. Further, it could now enfranchise approximately a million non-British citizens, thus having a significant impact on the outcome of a close […]
200 new homes a day needed to house new immigrants | Migration Watch UK
At least 200 new homes will be required every day of the year for the next nineteen years to house England’s rapidly growing immigrant population. Government projections just published, and analysed by think-tank Migrationwatch, show that a third of all new households in England will be the result of record immigration levels. This means that […]
The impact of immigration on housing in England
Summary1. New government household projections show an annual rate of household growth of 223,000 a year between 2004 and 2026. 73,000 (a third) of this increase is due to net migration into England. This amounts to a requirement for 200 new homes every day to house the additional immigrant population. 2. The household projections are […]