Sir Andrew Green’s response to Ed Miliband’s reference to Immigration in his Acceptance Speech | Migration Watch UK
“Ed Milliband’s speech is welcome recognition that mass immigration permitted under Labour has created serious problems for us all. If he is to level with the British people, as he has promised, he must now come forward with real policies that will achieve a major reduction in immigration which is now 80% from outside the […]
Quarterly Immigration Statistics – Migrationwatch comment | Migration Watch UK
The latest quarterly immigration statistics underline the urgent need for measures to bring immigration under control. The Labour government claimed to have done this; it did nothing of the sort, as today’s figures show with: Far from limiting numbers the Points Based System has actually contributed to their increase. Migrationwatch chairman, Sir Andrew Green said: […]
MW196 : The Court of Appeal Pronounces on the Immigration Rules | Migration Watch UK
1 The Court of Appeal on 23 June 2010 delivered its judgement in the case of Pankina v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [1] EWCA Civ. 719. The case arose from a technical question of compliance with particular requirements relating to the issue of work permits under the points based system but the Court in settling […]
MW194 : Will an immigration cap raise taxes and cut growth? | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 No. Because the availability of labour is not a significant restraint on growth and will not be so for some time. Introduction 2 An article in the Financial Times on 18 June[1] claimed that “David Cameron’s proposed cap on immigration will stunt economic growth and cost families around £300 a year in higher taxes […]
Financial Times claims for immigration fail to convince | Migration Watch UK
In a paper issued today think-tank Migrationwatch examines claims made in an article in the Financial Times on 18 June that a cap on economic migration will raise taxes and cut growth. The report points out that labour shortages are not the main constraint on growth in a period on high unemployment. Furthermore, less than 40% […]
MW193 : Homosexuals, Asylum and the Supreme Court | Migration Watch UK
On 7 July 2010 the Supreme Court delivered judgments in a case with momentous implications for asylum law. The case reference is HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [1] UKSC 31. The importance of the case is reflected by the fact that both the Equality and Human Rights Commission of the United Kingdom […]
Migrationwatch media comment on immigration cap announcement | Migration Watch UK
Migrationwatch welcomes the government’s statement today on its intention to limit immigration in line with its election promise. Special interest groups must understand the wider issues at stake and recognise the need to deal with immigration because of the large part it is playing in propelling our population to an unsustainable 70 million with the […]
Migrationwatch Comment on OBR Report on Immigration | Migration Watch UK
Some press reports have implied that the Office for Budget Responsibility has come up with a revised estimate of net immigration. It has not. It has chosen to adopt an estimate over the next five years that is close to the low migration scenario of the ONS. This produces a conservative estimate of the increase in the labour […]
Labour’s “Tough” Points Based System Actually Increased Immigration | Migration Watch UK
Analysis of the latest immigration statistics by think-tank Migrationwatch (see Annex below) has revealed what Labour were anxious to conceal during the election campaign, namely that their so called “tough” Points Based System (PBS) has actually led to an increase in immigration. For several months, the previous government declined to answer Parliamentary questions on the […]
MW191 : Now it’s the BBC that Blunder over Immigration Statistics | Migration Watch UK
On the 10 o’clock news on 30 April, the BBC Home Affairs Editor[1] claimed that, in 2008, there was a net outflow of non UK workers of 8,000 so the real pressure on British jobs was from a net inflow of 46,000 EU workers which none of the parties had any plans to control. To […]