Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: 'People-trafficking is a sickening business.'
Immigration fuels ‘staggering’ rise in numbers
By mid-2031, the population is projected to pass 70 million.
Office for National Statistics figures project that Immigration will fuel a 'staggering' rise in the UK population over the next ten years.
Action plan with France vows to make crossings an 'infrequent phenomenon'.
Boris Johnson said the UK would send back migrants arriving illegally on small boats - but Sky News found few have been deported.
Labour activists introduced a motion — passed by conference — to award full voting rights to all UK residents. Not citizens but residents.
Delegates at the party’s conference backed a move to ‘maintain and extend free movement rights.
Previously, takeaway restaurants could not recruit specialist chefs from abroad.
Alp Mehmet, Migration Watch chair, stormed: “This unwise and retrograde step will likely lead to foreign graduates staying on to stack shelves.'
Alp Mehmet, Migration Watch UK chair, said: 'There is no need to devalue a study visa by turning it into a backdoor route for working here.'
The number of clandestine attempts to cross the Channel by boat appears to have grown substantially over the past year, says Migration Watch UK.
Neil Anderson, of Migration Watch UK, Demetrios Papademetriou of Migration Policy Institute and Madeleine Sumption of Migration Observatory discuss.
In a statement to the House of Commons he said: “No-one believes more strongly than me in the benefits of migration to our country.'
The Conservatives must have a clear objective to cut immigration overall.