Cost per head of an Amnesty about £½ Million Per Head Over a Lifetime | Migration Watch UK
A new report out today examines the cost of granting an amnesty to an illegal immigrant. The report, by think tank Migrationwatch, follows their estimate last week that there are about 1.1 million people living illegally in the UK. Many of them are working on the black market at less than the minimum wage. The report examines […]
Migrationwatch briefing – Clegg struggles on immigration policy | Migration Watch UK
Interviewed by Andrew Marr on BBC 1 on Sunday morning, Nick Clegg was clearly struggling to defend Lib Dem immigration policy. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman, MigrationwatchUK, said: “It is shocking that the leader of one of the main political parties should be so poorly informed about an issue of enormous concern to the public. […]
Over a Million Illegal Immigrants in the UK | Migration Watch UK
There are now over a million illegal immigrants in Britain according to a new report out today from Migrationwatch. The report examined the only two previous studies – one commissioned by the Home Office in 2005 and the other produced by the London School of Economics in 2009 for the Mayor of London. The report explains that the LSE […]
Comment on Liberal Democrat Manifesto | Migration Watch UK
‘This is immigration with no limits whatsoever but spiced up with two unworkable proposals – a regional immigration policy that would be impossible to enforce and an amnesty that is certain to encourage still further illegal immigration. The LibDems are treating the public as if they were fools.’
Comment on Conservative Manifesto | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the proposals on immigration in the Conservative manifesto, Migrationwatch chairman, Sir Andrew Green said today: ‘This is a very significant turning point in the crucial debate on immigration, which is of huge concern to the public. At last we have a manifesto that sets out, for the first time, an overall objective for net […]
MigrationWatch response to asylum and immigration figures issued today | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the section on immigration in the Labour Party Manifesto, Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green said today: ‘On immigration, Labour’s manifesto shows some glimpses of light. Breaking the link between economic migration and permanent settlement is a valuable step forward. Mention of limits on high skilled workers and university students would be more significant if […]
Immigration: Now it’s the Foreign Secretary Who Get’s His Facts Seriously Wrong | Migration Watch UK
No sooner has the PM had his knuckles wrapped by the Statistics Authority for using misleading statistics on immigration, than his Foreign Secretary does the same on Radio 5 Live. In an interview at 8.40 a.m. this morning on the Five Live Breakfast Show, David Miliband said: “One point that is very often not understood […]
Prime Minister gets it wrong on immigration – again | Migration Watch UK
In his speech on immigration on 31 March, the Prime Minister attacked “those who propose a quota” on immigration. He claimed that it was unworkable and quoted from an IPPR paper to support his case. In fact nobody is calling for a quota on immigration. He was, presumably, confusing an overall policy objective for net […]
Prime Minister gets his facts wrong on immigration | Migration Watch UK
In his pod cast on Friday 26 March, the Prime Minister said “Some people talk as if net inward migration is rising. In fact, it is falling – down from 237,000 in 2007, to 163,000 in 2008, to provisional figures of 147,000 last year”. The first two figures refer to Long Term Immigration and are […]
Lib Dems Talk Tough on Immigration – But Their Actual Policies Would be “Disastrous” | Migration Watch UK
The Liberal Democrats immigration policy sounds tough but, in reality, is no better than the government’s “open door immigration policy” that has seen the biggest wave of immigration in our history, says a new report The policy was the first of the major parties to be scrutinised in detail by think-tank Migrationwatch as the parties set […]