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The Points Based System: Why It Will Not Stop Our Population Hitting 70 Million
“At his press conference on 10 November, the Prime Minister claimed that the Goverment’s Points Based System “has made a huge difference” to immigration. However, our study of the system reveals very serious weaknesses. We think that it has eliminated the professional judgement of Immigration Officers in favour of a
Labour Concealed a shift in immigration policy | Migration Watch UK
In Parliament today the Immigration Minister denied that there had been any change in immigration policy in 2001 nor, therefore, any political motive. However, there is clear evidence of a Labour shift in immigration policy in 2001-2 which was concealed from the public at the time, according to the attached Briefing
HUGE COST OF AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS QUANTIFIED | Migration Watch UK
An amnesty for illegal immigrants would be bound to encourage further illegal immigration, their present number has been seriously underestimated and the lifetime cost would be in the order of £130 billion even on that low estimate of numbers, says a report out today from think-tank Migrationwatch. The report is in reply
Comment: Mass Immigration Deliberate Labour Policy
Following the recent revelation, in the Evening Standard, by Andrew Neather, a former senior adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett, about the Government’s political agenda to open up Britain’s immigration controls to mass immigration Migrationwatch Chairman, Sir Andrew Green said, in The Daily Telgraph that “Now at least the truth is out,
IMMIGRANT POPULATION HAS INCREASED BY MORE THAN TWO MILLION IN EIGHT YEARSImmigrants have almost doubled under Labour | Migration Watch UK
The number of immigrants in the UK has increased by more than two million in the last eight years, says a Government sponsored report – that is nearly 700 a day – entirely consistent with the figure predicted by think tank Migrationwatch in 2002 which at the time was vilified
Conservative Party Conference
Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch, in a press release, said that: It is welcome news that immigration will be a “big priority” for a Conservative Home Office, as Chris Grayling put it. The key will be how the Conservatives annual limit is defined and whether it will be low