MW190 : The Illegal Migrant Population in the UK | Migration Watch UK
Summary1 Previous estimates of illegal immigrants have seriously underestimated the scale of illegal entry and those who overstay their visas. A more plausible estimate for illegal immigrants in the UK would be 1.1 million. If they were granted an amnesty their relatives and dependants would have the right to enter Britain, approximately doubling the numbers […]
MW186 : Can We Limit Immigration? | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 A broad immigration policy objective of net immigration at 40,000 a year is feasible provided that the number of economic migrants permitted to settle is of the order of 30,000 a year.Introduction 2 An IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) paper issued in March 2010 questioned both the feasibility and desirability of limiting […]
MW169 : 70 MILLION : MYTH OR NOT? | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Some responses to the ONS population projections published on 21 October[1] have been to claim that there are reasons to believe that 70 million will not, in practice, happen. This note examines some of the arguments. Projections are not predictions 2. The ONS say explicitly that their projections do not take account of future […]
An Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants?Migrationwatch Response to the GLA Paper
Summary 1 The following are the main points: Numbers 2 The estimate of the number of illegals in Britain is clearly critical. The Report recognises (page 36) that the consensus among informed observers has been that those who stay beyond the validity of their visas are likely to be a much larger group than those […]
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 to a paperpublished by the London […]
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 by critics. The report [1], by […]
MW162 : The Points Based System: Dispelling the Myths | Migration Watch UK
1. IntroductionThe Home Affairs Committee issued its report on the Points based system for work permits on Friday 31 July. This note sets out the background. 2. The PBS will not prevent the UK’s population hitting 70 millionThe Government’s own calculation is that, if the PBS had been in operation last year, it would have […]
Surge in Remittances Points to Sharp Rise in Illegal Immigrants from Pakistan | Migration Watch UK
The number of illegal immigrants from Pakistan in the UK could be as high as 200,000 according to a new report out today which has compared official statistics on the number of Pakistani born workers with a dramatic increase in the level of remittances being sent to that country. An examination of workers remittances shows […]
MW160 : Illegal Immigration From Pakistan | Migration Watch UK
1 A massive increase in workers remittances to Pakistan may be a further pointer to large scale illegal immigration. There could be as many as 200,000 from that country. A comparison with remittances to the Philippines also shows a rapid increase but the number of those born in the Philippines and in employment in the […]
Migrationwatch comment on GLA report on illegal immigration issued today. | Migration Watch UK
‘These are very expensive proposals which would only make a bad situation worse. On the report’s own figures they would cost £300m in bureaucracy and £3m a week in benefits (our figure is £10m a week. See also (Briefing Paper {78}– The True Cost of an Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants). It would also cost £6bn to […]