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The unprecedented number of asylum-seekersgranted permission to stay in the UK in recent years has exceeded thenumber of new social houses built in the period by nearly 40,000, saysa new report out today: The impact of asylum on social housing. Ina short summary of the position – following the comments from

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

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.

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

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

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