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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 MoreWork Permit And Settlement
Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch, and Scott Blinder of Oxford’s Migration Observatory debate the Home Office proposals for Work Permit and Settlement. Listen to the debate from 1.06 on BBC Radio 5Live’s iPlayer at http://bbc.in/lncYCM
Comment On Home Office Proposals On Settlement
In response to the proposals published by the Home Office in their consultation on Employment-Related Settlement, Tier 5 and Overseas Domestic Workers, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK commented: “This is excellent news. There will now be a real incentive for employers to train British workers rather than
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Tighten Rules on Foreign Marriage Partners Says Think Tank | Migration Watch UK
A call for tightening the rules on marriages to foreign partners has come from think-tank Migrationwatch (See Briefing Paper No. 10.25). It comes in the wake of a Home Affairs Committee report which reported on forced marriages among some sections of the ethnic communities; the changes are needed to ensure that
MW233 : A Quarter of a Million Failed Asylum Seekers Granted Amnesty Since the Early 1990s | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 The latest (and largest) exercise in granting settlement to failed asylum seekers is the continuation of a sorry tradition of amnesties that has resulted in over 250,000 failed asylum seekers being granted settlement since the early 1990s. Once settlement is achieved additional dependants can then join the person
Immigration Close To Record Levels: Non Uk Born Workers Increase By 1.7 Million In Ten Years
Today’s new figures Net migration in the year to last September was the highest for 5 years at 242,000, up 96,000 on the previous year. This is close to the record level of 260,000 set in the year to June 2005. British emigration was unchanged from last year at 43,000