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Commenting on thisweekend’s revelations about the Migration Observatory, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said:  “The Migration Observatory press release avoided the central point, namely theirinvolvement in a programme called ‘Changing Minds’ together with a number ofother pro-immigration organisations. “I was astonished todiscover that they are part of a coordinated effort

11April, 2013 Immigration Mythology Briefing Paper 12.4 has been updated. The updated paper outlinesthe many myths that are put forward by the mass immigration lobby in support ofthe current levels of immigration and dispels each myth in turn.

The London Evening Standard – 28 March, 2013: Immigration: why the public is right by David Goodhart “I had not given immigration much thought.…….though as a journalist of Leftish sympathies I was reflexively in favour of it…” “What changed that was hearing Tory intellectual David Willetts speak about the risk

This morning the National Institute of Economic and Social Research published a paper which failed to estimate the number of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants who will come to the UK when transitional controls end on 1 January 2014.  Commenting on the report Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This

In an article for the Guardian Online on 6 March,Jonathan Portes made three claims which we believe are open to question [1]: 1. A8 migrants are “far less likely to live in social housing” The study [2] upon which this claim is based only coveredthe first four years of A8 migration