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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 MorePress Release
Background brief: Intra-Company Transfers The Prime Minister announced on 3 November that work permits for Intra-Company Transfers would not be subject to a cap. On 5 November, the Home Secretary, speaking at the Policy Exchange Think Tank, hinted at imposing a minimum salary. Meanwhile, leaks from Brussels suggest that the government will agree
Briefing By The Mayor Of London: Rebuttal
Back Bench Debate on Immigration: The Scale of immigration The GLA Briefing claims (paragraph 4) that “net international migration in 2009 was at its lowest level since mid 1995 which is comparable to the government’s target”. This is quite wrong. As the paper recognises elsewhere, net international migration in 2009
Brussels Leak Reveals Britain to Take Major Share of Indian IT Workers | Migration Watch UK
Documents leaked from the European Commission reveal the true state of negotiations with India for the preferential admission of IT workers to the EU. The UK’s quota for some worker categories is 40% of the entire EU commitment – almost three times that of Germany and almost seven times that of France.
MW208 : Proposals to Charge Fees for Immigration and Asylum Appeals | Migration Watch UK
The Ministry of Justice has recently published a consultation paper on proposals to start charging fees for certain categories of appeals against adverse decisions by the UK Border Agency on asylum and immigration applications. Such appeals are heard in the first instance by the First Tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum
Response to the Home Affairs Committee Report on an immigration cap | Migration Watch UK
Sir Andrew said that “Nearly 100,000 work related visas were issued last year, a significant number compared to net immigration of about 200,000.” “We must, of course, continue to admit key people but economic migration must take a share of the necessary reduction in immigration if our population growth is to
One in Twelve Social Houses Occupied by Foreign Nationals | Migration Watch UK
Today’s English Housing Survey provides further evidence of the pressure placed by immigration on the housing sector. Foreign nationals now occupy 8.4% of the social housing stock. Among occupants aged 16-40 that figure rises to 12.6%. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK said “This finally destroys the myth