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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 MoreThe Obr And Immigration (revised)
Summary 1.The recent OBR report was deeply misleading on immigration because it: – chose for the summary an entirelytheoretical scenario. – made no assessment of the government’sactual policy; indeed, the general effect was to misrepresent it. – made no mention of the population impactof its central case which would add 15million
Chris Bryant’s Speech
Commenting on ChrisBryant’s Immigration speech, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UKsaid: “Chris Bryant’s speech ducksthe main issue. It says little about the level of immigration or howLabour intends to bring it down after allowing the total to reach four millionon their watch. We can all agree about young
Chief Inspector Of Immigration: Report On Juxtaposed Controls
Commenting on the report, Mr Alp Mehmet,Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “The Chief Inspector is right topoint to inadequate Border Force resources, especially at Calais. It is timethe government accepted that an effective border control can’t be had on thecheap and allocate sufficient resources to address an issue
The Obr And Immigration
This year’s reportby the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the sustainability of thegovernment’s fiscal position included an Annex on immigration. This suggested that the UK’s public debt / GDPratio would be considerably enhanced by a higher level of immigration. The report is remarkably frank about the lack ofevidence for any
Public Administration Select Committee Report On Migration Statistics
Commentingon the report, Sir AndrewGreen, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Better statistics would, of course, be helpful. Butblunt instruments have their uses. The immigration target has been vital inturning around immigration policy which has already resulted in a reduction ofapproximately 100,000 in net migration. The exact figure may not be
Comment On The Office For Budgetary Responsibility Report
Commenting on the report released by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Once again the OBR has given only part of the story. It is true that, in the medium term, migration provides a larger pool of working age people which increases tax