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Responding To Labour Shortages – Is More Immigration The Answer?
Since leaving the European Union and emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic, the topic of workforce immigration has rarely been far from the headlines. Whether it is increasing the number of agricultural workers, nurses or hospitality staff…
Learn MoreWhat’s The News On Modern Slavery Abuse Among Asylum Seekers?
In recent years, the amount of modern slavery claims being made by asylum seekers has risen substantially. In 2022, claims reached a high of 17,000 of which just a quarter were for sole UK nationals. Earlier this…
Learn MoreImmigration Rises To 1.3 Million: Visa Grants For Foreigners To Live Here Double In 3 Years
The number of visa grants for people to come and live in the UK has more than doubled from over half a million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022 (see the full Home Office bulletinand our press…
Learn MoreNearly 7 In 10 Of Those Coming In Boats Are Young Men As 500% Increase In Afghan Dinghy Arrivals Helps Drive Surging Illegal Immigration
The figures show that 54,090 people attempted to enter illegally in 2022, and 45,755 of these by small boat. The boat figures are an increase of 1.6 times on the number of people that arrived…
Learn MoreCensus Reveals The Massive Impact Of Immigration On Our Society
Summary: In the last 20 years the population of England and Wales has increased by around eight million entirely as a result of immigration. This has meant huge population shifts and churn in different areas of…
Learn MoreNet Level Of Immigration Is Now *half A Million* Per Year – An All-time Record
Net migration for the year to June 2022 is estimated by the ONS to be 504,000 This of course is an all-time record level of net migration. The previous record was a third of a million…
Learn More£220 Million Of Your Money Handed To France Since Boats Crisis Began – And Problem Just Gets Worse
The government has signed a new £63 million agreement with France that will involve the UK paying for 40 per cent more French officers to patrol their own beaches, British officers stationed in French control…
Learn MoreHow Uncontrolled Immigration Could Mean Electoral Defeat For The Conservatives
New polling backs up what Migration Watch UK found in the summer—that voters want to see a reduction in immigration and the government will lose its Red Wall support if action is not taken to control…
Learn MoreHalf A Million More Foreign-born Arrive In Past Decade Than Previous Ten Years
Despite promising cuts in immigration, the government has overseen even higher levels than under Tony Blair or Gordon Brown during their time in office. New datafrom the 2021 Census (carried out during March of last…
Learn MoreGovernment Were Warned Over Security Weaknesses Of Visa System
It emerged today that the Government were warned two years ago that thesystem of visa checks was inadequate for countries where there wereparticular concerns over terrorism. Think-tank Migrationwatch issued a warningon 23 August, 2005 that pressure on our visa sections could compromisesecurity. The report said that large numbers of people from
Simplification Of Immigration Law: Tidying Up Legislation
Submission by Migrationwatch in response to the Border & Immigration Agency of the Home OfficeConsultation Document. The Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office (successor to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate) recently published a consultation paper……. The latest addition, the UK Borders Bill, is another substantial piece of legislation currently
House Prices Crisis: Many Scapegoats Few Solutions
A letter from Sir Andrew Green, The Times, London Sir, The prediction that, by 2026, the average home in Englandwill cost ten times average earnings is based on demand outstrippingsupply. Components of this demand include the increase in the number ofadults, pensioners and single households. But the largest element ofdemand is
Social Housing Shows 40,000 Deficit Because Of Record Asylum Numbers
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
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
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.