Government has ‘forfeited confidence of British people’ on asylum and immigration – poll verdict… | Migration Watch UK
The electorate has delivered a damning verdict on the Government’s asylum and immigration record. In a Poll conducted by the MORI Social Research Institute for think tank MigrationwatchUK between January 16 and 21, 85% of the population, including the majority of Black and Asian Britons (59%), disagree that the Government has either immigration or asylum […]
Response to the Prime Minister’s statement on asylum… | Migration Watch UK
Following is a response to the Prime Minister’s statement today in an interview for BBC Newsnight concerning plans to reduce the number of asylum seekers entering the UK by ’30 or 40 per cent in the next few months. ‘We are delighted. We have brought the facts before the British people and they have spoken. […]
Home office challenged on number of failed asylum seekers still in UK… | Migration Watch UK
The Government has been challenged to live up to its promise of making known all the facts on asylum by revealing their estimate of the number of failed asylum seekers still in the UK. In response to Home Secretary David Blunkett’s comments in the New Statesmen that he ‘wanted to ensure that people know the […]
Security now paramount consideration… | Migration Watch UK
The increased terrorist threat to the UK leaves little alternative but to detain those asylum seekers who destroy their documents until their identities have been established and security checks made, says independent think-tank MigrationwatchUK. ‘While the vast majority of asylum seekers are law-abiding people recent events have graphically demonstrated that they include a small, but […]
Entitlement cards now urgent priority | Migration Watch UK
The chaos in the asylum and immigration system and the potential for widespread misuse of public services makes the introduction of entitlement cards an urgent priority. That is the view of independent think-tank MigrationwatchUK in their submission to the Government’s consultation exercise on entitlement cards. (Click here for the full text of the submission). ‘Astounding as […]
Immirgation now five times greater than a decade ago | Migration Watch UK
Immigration into the UK is now running at five times the level of 1992. An analysis of the figures by think-tank MigrationwatchUK shows that even taking into account the Government’s recent major downward ‘adjustment’ of immigration statistics to ‘reconcile’ them to the latest Census figures (see Note 1) net non-EU foreign immigration has risen from […]
More than 100,000 ‘missing’ from immigration statistics | Migration Watch UK
Close scrutiny by MigrationwatchUK of government immigration figures has revealed that over the past 10 years some 109,500 dependants of asylum seekers have been omitted from official figures for overall immigration – even though the numbers were known. Last year alone there were more than 20,000 dependants. The ‘missing’ dependants came to light when MigrationwatchUK […]
Welcome for UN High Commissioner’s comments that Britain is’ taking more than fair share of refugees’ | Migration Watch UK
Comments today from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, that Britain is taking more than its fair share of refugees have been welcomed by independent think-tank MigrationwatchUK. Said MigrationwatchUK chairman, Sir Andrew Green; ‘Mr Lubber’s remarks are very welcome. They confirm what we have been saying for months. He is quite right to call […]
Social costs of mass immigration outweigh small economic gain. | Migration Watch UK
In response to a Home Office report on December 10, 2002 claiming that current levels of immigration provide economic advantage to the UK, MigrationwatchUK issued the following statement: ‘The Home Office statement that “Migrants Boost the Labour Market” misses the point entirely. Of course migrants add to the labour market. But all authoritative studies (the […]
Free movement of East European labour has ‘potentially massive consequences’. | Migration Watch UK
In a response to a Foreign Office announcement on December 10 concerning the free entry of East European workers to Britain whenadditional states join the EU, MigrationwatchUK issued the following: ‘The announcement of immediate Free Movement for workers from EU candidate countries on accession is a decision with potentially massive consequences. With other major economies […]