Amnesty for illegals ‘no answer’ to failure of immigration policy | Migration Watch UK
An amnesty for illegal immigrants is not the answer to the crisis facing the UK and should be firmly rejected because it would simply make the existing problem worse, says a new report out today. The Migrationwatch report examined the experience of the UK and Europe(see report) and finds that in comparable countries where amnesties have […]
UK should not ‘go it alone’ over opening Labour market to Romania and Bulgaria | Migration Watch UK
The arrival of very large numbers of Romanian and Bulgarian workers in the UK is a distinct possibility if the Government is one of a handful of EU states to ‘go it alone’ and again allows unrestricted access to the UK labour market to these countries when they join the EU as expected next January, […]
Migration Watch Response to ITEM Club Report on the “Benefits” of East European Immigration | Migration Watch UK
A report out today by Migrationwatch suggests that the recent ITEM Club report on the “benefits of the new immigration” from Western Europe was far more negative than first realised. (Read Report) It pointed to the loss of 50,000 jobs by British workers by 2010 with virtually no benefit to the host community. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, […]
£2.5bn Immigrant contribution claim is yet another ‘dodgy dossier’ | Migration Watch UK
Repeated Government claims that immigrants contribute £2.5bn more to the British economy in taxes than they receive in benefits and state services have been exposed as entirely false. Instead of a surplus of £2.5bn the true figure is actually a deficit of £200m for the year the Government chose, says a report from Migrationwatch out today. (Read report) […]
Home Affairs Select Committee (HAC) Report on Immigration Control | Migration Watch UK
On the 24 July, 2006 HAC issued a detailed report on immigration control. The press notice which summarises the report’s findings is available at here. This was followed by the Home Secretary’s proposals for reforming the systems and processes for managing immigration to the UK. A summary of the proposed changes and the implementation timescale is […]
Massive public demand for annual immigration limit. | Migration Watch UK
The public have comprehensively rejected the Government’s ‘no limits’ immigration policy and instead have called for an annual limit on numbers. By 76% to 10% they strongly agreed (50%), or agreed (26%), there must be an annual limit to the number of immigrants allowed to come to Britain (only 4% strongly disagreeing), in a survey […]
Home office response to opinion poll. | Migration Watch UK
The Home Office have made three points in reply to the Migrationwatch opinion poll issued today (see poll) which showed that 76 % of the population back an annual limit on immigration. None of their points stands up to a moment’s examination: 1. That the survey reflects the views of a “small fraction of the UK population”. […]
Government ‘hiding’ immigration impact on housing growth | Migration Watch UK
The Government has been accused of deliberately hiding the impact of immigration on the country’s future housing needs. The recent Household Projection report (March 14) did not even mention immigration as being a factor in the requirement to build the 4.8m new houses which it said were needed in Britain between 2003 and 2026. But, […]
New figures show true extent of immigration impact on housing demand. March 14, 2006 | Migration Watch UK
Attempts to play down the impact of immigration on UK housing have badly backfired following the publication today of household projection figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The figures show that immigrants will need 1.5 million homes in the period from 2003 to 2026 – that’s 65,000 each year – or nearly […]
Sir Andrew Green commenting on the release of the latest asylum statistics today | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the release of the latest asylum statistics today Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said: ‘We welcome the significant fall in asylum claims last year but removals are stuck at the same level as 2004 so the Home Office have fallen well short of the Prime Minister’s target. ‘This means that the number […]