Asylum Removals a ‘Miserable Failure’ – despite £5M a day bill… | Migration Watch UK
Less than one in five failed asylum seekers is being removed from Britain – even though the whole asylum process is costing taxpayers £5million a day. The figures come from independent think tank Migrationwatch which is analysing the detail of last week’s asylum figures and has issued its interim findings. ‘It is correct that the […]
Radical scheme change opens ‘Back Door to Britain’ Radical government changes to the hitherto successful ‘Working Holiday Makers scheme,’ are opening a new and completely uncontrolled ‘back door to Britain’. | Migration Watch UK
The old scheme has generally been a success. It permitted applicants, mainly (but not exclusively) from the old Commonwealth, to have some experience of Britain and to contribute to our economy. They were allowed to work in non-professional jobs provided it was “incidental to their holiday”. In practice, the limit was up to 50% of […]
Migration from ‘New European EU Members’ grossly understated, says report… | Migration Watch UK
Annual immigration to the UK from the new Eastern European membersof the EU could be as much as four times higher than the Government’s estimate claims a new report out today. See full report. The Government’s handling of immigration is described as ‘deeply worrying’. The Home Office estimate that between 5,000 – 13,000 immigrants per year […]
MW62 : Asylum Laws: A Way Forward | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. False asylum claimants are clogging up the system to the detriment of genuine refugees. The present legal framework is unable to deliver the only humane solution – the swift grant of asylum to those who deserve it and the rapid removal of those who do not. The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Human Rights […]
Britain must regain control of Asylum Laws… | Migration Watch UK
The UK must escape from the tangle of international Conventions and return decision-making to Westminster if the current crisis in the asylum system is ever to be resolved. That is the view of think-tank, MigrationwatchUK, which has proposed that Britain cut loose from the international straitjacket and pass her own laws adapted to her own […]
Asylum Day on the BBC | Migration Watch UK
The BBC will have a full day of TV programmes about asylum on Wednesday, 23 July. MigrationwatchUK’s Chairman, Sir Andrew Green, will be appearing on BBC1 at 10.35 pm (‘Face the Nation’ – a live debate on asylum) as one of a number of immigration and asylum experts. Harry Mitchell QC, a member of MigrationwatchUK’s […]
Impact of immigration greatly understated in housing projections | Migration Watch UK
‘Building more homes is not a panacea and the impact of such a housing programme on the environment could be unsustainable.’ House of Commons Committee, ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the regions, April 2003 Estimates of the number of new homes required in England over the next 20 years have been seriously underestimated because […]
Immigration rise prompts NHS cost fears… | Migration Watch UK
A report out today warns of the potential impact on the NHS of the cost of treating the rising numbers of patients with infectious diseases resulting from the very great increase in asylum and immigration in recent years. Research by think-tank Migrationwatch indicates that the number of cases could run into tens of thousands and […]
Immigration estimates increased by 37% | Migration Watch UK
The Office for National Statistics has released new estimates for international migration which show an increase in migration into the UK for 2001 to 171,800. This is an increase of 37 % over the previous estimate of 125,000. For 1997 the new estimate is 46,800. The revised estimates give net foreign non EU inward migration […]
MWUK examines government asylum claims | Migration Watch UK
Migrationwatch UK has cast doubt on whether the government has yet ‘turned the corner’ on asylum applications with the release of figures that show the recent downturn was due to special factors. The asylum statistics issued by the Home Office on 22 May showed an unexpectedly large drop of 7,385 in the first quarter of […]