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Deportation Of Murderers Plummets In Midst Of Flurry Of Human Rights Challenges
Collapsing enforcement and the present border chaos threatens the safety of families in the UK. This is because, in the midst of huge abuse of human rights law, removals of high harm individuals have plummeted.…
Learn MoreThis False Claim Drove The Government To Vastly Weaken Study Visa Rules, With Shocking Results
SUMMARY: Basing policy decisions on fake news can have far-reaching and damaging consequences. It has been widely claimed by government and throughout the media that 97% of overseas students depart after graduating. This is completely misleading.…
Learn MoreRwanda Deal Means Refugees Coming To Britain From Africa, Government Admits
The government have said that the asylum deal with Rwanda will lead to a ‘small number of the most vulnerable refugees in Rwanda will be resettled in the UK‘ but have not yet provided any…
Learn MoreQuick Facts On Illegal Boat Crossings
1. The number of boat arrivals since 1 January 2018 has now passed 50,000 and crossings are now double what they were compared with last year (which was an all-time record). Source: See our Boat Tracking Stationwhich…
Learn MoreGovernment Punishes British Graduates With More Immigration Even After Border Control Betrayal
Days after statistics showedthat the government handed out a million visa entry grants to overseas nationals to come to the UK in the past year, the government has put in place a new visa which would…
Learn MoreWe Need Transparency On Immigration
What should be done? The public must be given a much clearer picture of what is actually happening on immigration levels. In order to achieve this, the government should step in to restore the IPS…
Learn MoreNearly 7 Million New Registrations By Migrants With General Practitioners Since 2010
General practice in England alone provides over 300 million patient consultations each year. But what pressure does the uncontrolled, mass immigration that we have now put on the NHS? Analysis of statistics produced by the Office for…
Learn MorePopular Plan To Send Illegal Arrivals To Rwanda Would Stop Profits Going To Criminal Smugglers
Voters back the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda by two to one, a poll reveals. And even Labour voters are more likely to support the idea than oppose it. Some 47 per…
Learn MoreChildren Threatened With Drowning: Lawless Reality Challenges Woke Narrative On Boats
The Government has pledged action after finally confirming alarming incidents in which babies and children are threatened with drowning in the English Channel. A minister in the House of Lords told fellow peers who migrants…
Learn MoreMigration Watch Comment On Civitas Pamphlet On Immigration
This authoritative report from Professor Rowthorn, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, concludes that there is no economic argument, or indeed any other argument for mass immigration on the present scale, currently a third of a million per year. Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration
The Impact Of Immigration On Uk Wage Levels
Summary 1. Immigration may well have some effect in reducing wages and may also hold them back from rising. Detail 2. A summary of the rather limited academic research base for the impact of migration on wages of the UK-born is contained in Annex A together with links to each
Humanitarian Protection And The Current Asylum Crisis
1.The following is the definition of humanitarian protection in legal briefing paper 174: HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION If a person’s application for asylum is refused consideration must be given immediately as to whether he qualifies for humanitarian protection under paragraph 339C of the Immigration Rules. If he is to qualify he must
Migration Watch Uk Press Comment On Ons Net Migration Statistics August 2015
Responding to today’s net migration figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Net migration at one third of a million a year is clearly unsustainable. Nearly half of the inflow is now from the EU, including 50,000 from Romania and Bulgaria as we have long predicted.
Labour Leadership Candidates On Immigration
On July 25th the final hustings of the 2015 labour leadership election were held in Warrington. During the course of the hustings the candidates were asked ‘where do each of the candidates stand on Britain’s place in the EU and can we solve the immigration issue while remaining in the EU?’