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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 MoreAn African War Criminal
An appalling case is reported today, 8 October 2012,in the Daily Mail Online. It is the story of a SudaneseAfrican whose identity is not disclosed, who in the course of a number of BBCinterviews said that he was between 2003 and 2006 a fighter in the Janjaweedmilitia which was responsible for
University Claims of Attracting ‘Brightest and Best’ Students Challenged | Migration Watch UK
Claims by the UK education establishment that UK universities attract ‘the brightest and best’ international students have been shown to be greatly exaggerated by a new study out today which reveals that in fact the vast majority attend institutions that are not considered to be in the top tier of learning
Strong Public Support for a Limit on Foreign Students | Migration Watch UK
70% of the public want a limit on the number of foreign students admitted to Britain – that was the outcome of an opinion poll published by Migrationwatchtoday. The question explained that about 250,000 foreign students from outside the EU arrive every year to study in Britain. They pay the full
Sir Andrew Green: Immigration Control Should Not Impede Economic Growth
Sir Andrew Green is Chairman of Migrationwatch UK. Does the government’s political imperative to get immigration down toacceptable levels conflict with their economic imperative to stimulate economicgrowth? For business generally, theanswer is a resounding “no”. There are no limits on the transfer ofinternational staff, vital to so many companies based here.
Government To Report International Students Separately Within Net Migration Figures
Commenting on the announcement by the Rt Hon David Willetts MP,Sir Andrew Green said: “Wewelcome improvements to the migration statistics that will provide an estimateof students’ contribution to overall net migration. Better information isvital for a more informed debate. It is important, however, that studentsremain in the government’s net migration
MW277 : Response to NUS briefing on international students | Migration Watch UK
There is no evidence to support this claim. The IPS still cannot distinguish departing workers from departing students. A recent Home Office study of a sample of cases, ‘The Migrant Journey’, found that after five years, 20% of students remained in the UK legally. The other 80% were described as