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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…
Learn More“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…
Learn More“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…
Learn MoreStudent ‘Scams’ provide yet another back door into Britain | Migration Watch UK
Further evidence that current procedures are failing to prevent major scams within the immigration system is revealed in a new report out today from think-tank Migrationwatch. Research by the group into Home Office statistics reveals…
Learn MoreResponse to 2001 Census figures… | Migration Watch UK
The following comment was issued to the media on February 13, 2003 in respect of the results of the 2001 Census. ‘These figures illustrate just how quickly and profoundly the character of some parts of…
Learn MoreRestore The First Chance Rule
The ‘First Chance’ rule – also known as the ‘Resident Labour Market Test’ – is an immigration safeguard that means UK workers have the first opportunity to apply for job openings before such vacancies are…
Learn MoreCovering Up Daily Boat Arrivals Is To Aid Transparency, Says Member Of Parliament
The government is censoring your right to know the truth. Never before have such frightened politicians resorted to such desperate, obvious means to hide their own failure from the people who voted them into office and who pay their salaries. As the increasingly hard-pressed public (burdened with rising energy costs
Has The Channel Boat Cover Up Already Begun?
The government has failed to inform the public about whether there have been any illegal Channel crossings in boats for two whole weeks – since 26 January (see our Channel Tracking Station, sign the petitionto express concern about the boat cover up and write to your MP to say no here). From 26 January to
360,000 Have Come Here Via Direct Resettlement Routes Since 2005
On 15 June 2022, the Home Secretary statedin Parliament on 15 June: ‘Over 200,000 people have used safe and legal routes to come to the UK since 2015.’ Our fact-check finds that this is true. Not including refugee family reunion (2016-22), the number of people directly resettled to the UK was 267,000.
Sign This Petition – We Must Have Transparency From The Home Office On Channel Boat Arrivals
Without transparency, democracy is impossible. Officials must not be able to get away with hiding the truth. Migration Watch UK has launched a petitionto tell the government that it must not cover up the daily arrival totals of people coming to the UK via the English Channel in boats. Instead it should continue
Britain Not Obliged To Take In Europe’s Failed Asylum Claimants: Parliamentary Committee
Although we often criticise the political class for being out of touch on immigration, a Parliamentary Committee did make a sensible statement recently which is worth putting on record. The statement was made in response to written evidencewhich we submitted. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights recently said in a report: “It is
The Idea That The Government Is Delivering On Tackling Illegal Immigration Is Laughable
While announcing a welcome new returns agreement with Serbia, the Home Secretary, the government claimsthat it is ‘delivering on its promise to tackle illegal immigration and the harm it causes‘. Yet illegal boat crossings are six times as high as this point last year (with over 40,000 entering since end of 2017)