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Population Size
By Sir Andrew Green,Chairman, Migration Watch UK,The Times, London 20 July, 2012 Sir, Your leading article (“Census and sensibility”, July 17) suggests that population size is not a cause for concern. That will surprise many of your readers, especially those in England and certainly those in London and the South East
MW272 : Office of Budget Responsibility: Immigration and Public Debt | Migration Watch UK
The graph below, taken from the latest OBR Report has been seized upon by the immigration lobby as it purports to show that immigration helps us to tackle our debt problem. Two points they did not make: We believe that it was irresponsible not to have made these points clearer.
MW270 : Right to Family Life – New Immigration Rules | Migration Watch UK
1 The Home Office has recently promulgated a document running to 45 pages which substantially amends those paragraphs of the Immigration Rules which relate to family life. In this paper I am concentrating on those amendments which relate to the ability of convicted immigrant criminals to plead in accordance with
MW271 : Bill of Rights – Second Consultation | Migration Watch UK
1 In our Legal Paper MW 237 published in August 2011 I set out the views of Migration Watch in response to the initial consultation paper issued by the Commission on Human Rights. For all the reasons set out in that paper we expressed ourselves to be strongly opposed to
Comment on Today’s 2011 Census Release | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This census confirms the impact of mass immigration on our population. We now find that even the official numbers previously understated the scale of net migration by 14% and even this does not account for the illegal immigrant population who
Immigration Mythology
1 Introduction This paper outlines the many myths that are put forward by the mass immigration lobby in support of the current levels of immigration and dispels each myth in turn. 2 ‘Immigration provides great economic benefit’ For many years the government claimed that immigration added £6