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Explore our latest publications on immigration and asylum policies. Stay informed with well-researched insights.
Asylum Seeker Hotel Costs In Context
Over the past few decades, the numbers relating to government spending only seem to rise and rise. This can be quite de-sensitising. Eventually, an exasperated taxpayer might even be forgiven for caring little for ‘just’…
Learn MoreThe Abuse Of Modern Slavery Laws By Asylum Seekers
Key points 1. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 was passed in order to combat modern slavery in the United Kingdom. Since 2018, 15,977 UK nationals (3,195 per year on average) have been referred to the…
Learn MoreIrregular Immigration Behind The Broken Asylum System
The latest irregular migration statistics released on 25th August for the year ending June 2022 revealed the extent to which irregular (what used to be termed illegal) migration, feeds the broken asylum system, since nearly all those entering…
Learn MoreNumber Of People Per Illegal Boat Has Shot Up Five-fold Over Past Five Years
As the government has prevaricated and revealed its impotence on tackling boat arrivals, more than 2,500 boats have breached our borders. And new figures reveal that the average number of people per boat has risen five-fold since…
Learn MoreOverwhelmed, Abused Asylum System Costs You £2 Billion In Taxes As Illegal Boats Mount
New statistics released by the Home Officereveal just how costly, overwhelmed and abused our asylum system has become as illegal boat crossings have skyrocketed. More than 60,000 have arrived illegally by boat since January 2018 and…
Learn MoreAll-time High Immigration: Record 1.1 Million Entry Grants To Live In The Uk
The Home Office released visa, asylum and immigration statisticspertaining to the year to June 2022. These reveal a large increase in immigration since before the pandemic, with an astonishing 1.1 million visas granted for people to come…
Learn MoreOpen Letter To Conservative Leadership Candidates
Below is the text of an open letter sent to both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, highlighting the support for reducing overall immigration among the British public-as revealed by our recent polling data. The Right…
Learn MoreConservative Voters Strongly Favour Reducing Immigration
New polling conducted by Migration Watch UK demonstrates significant public support for reducing immigration into Britain. Despite claims in recent years that after Brexit the British public are now softer on immigration and its impact,…
Learn MoreCensus Confirms Huge Population Growth In Overcrowded England And Wales
Some of the first results to be published from Census 2021 show that the population of England and Wales grew from 56 million to 59.5 million, or by 3.5 million between 2011 and 2021 –…
Learn MoreBbc Newsnight Poll – Romanian And Bulgarian Migration
This is a stunningsurvey, which the BBC has rather desperately tried to play down. Thepercentages look small but when multiplied by the size of the work force theyproduce large numbers. One percent of Romanians of working age (total 15.4million) actively considering work in the UK amounts to 150,000 and fourpercent of
Legal Aid In Immigration And Asylum Cases
As always with these legal briefing papers it is stressed that they are not published as authoritative legal advice but for general guidance and information for users of the Migration Watch website. Restrictions on the availability of legal aid are imposed by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders
Revelations About Migration Observatory
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
18 Bogus Arguments For Mass Immigration
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.
What They Say: Extracts From The Media And Internet
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
Sir Andrew Green Comments On Niesr Report On Romanian And Bulgarian Migration
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