Supreme Court greatly widens the scope of the Refugee Convention | Migration Watch UK
An analysis by our Honorary Legal Adviser, published today, shows how the recent ruling by the Supreme Court has extended the test for asylum claimed by a homosexual from “a well founded fear of persecution” to whether or not he has “a right to live freely and openly as a gay man” in his own country. […]
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 today’s Supreme Court decision on gay applications | Migration Watch UK
The following can be attributed to Sir Andrew Green, Migrationwatch chairman, if you wish. ‘This could lead to a potentially massive expansion of asylum claims as it could apply to literally millions of people around the world. An applicant has now only to show that he (or she) is homosexual and intends to return and […]
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 […]
Immigration Issue Might Have Swung The Election | Migration Watch UK
A tougher stance on immigration from the political parties could have changed the result of the General Election, a new opinion poll has revealed. The poll, by YouGovfor think tank Migrationwatch, shows that the Conservatives might have won an outright majority if they had adopted ‘a stronger stance on controlling immigration.’ 54% who selected Conservatives as […]
Population and National Debt | Migration Watch UK
Latest analysis shows that, as Britain struggles to pay down its huge national debt, we will have to provide for an extra one million people solely as a result of immigration over the next five years. This is equivalent to the combined populations of Manchester, Liverpool and York. The figures, extracted by Migrationwatch, from the […]
Lib Dem Voters Strongly Opposed to an Amnesty | Migration Watch UK
A new poll out today shows that the public are opposed to Nick Clegg’s policy of an amnesty for illegal immigrants. Among those intending to vote for the Liberal Democrats, opponents outnumber supporters by more than two to one. The poll by YouGov, commissioned by MigrationwatchUK, did not use the term “amnesty”. Instead, it described […]
Now it’s the BBC that blunder over immigration statistics | Migration Watch UK
On the 10 o’clock TV news on 30 April, the BBC “Reality Check” claimed that, in 2008, there was a net outflow of non EU 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 […]