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‘These are very expensive proposals which would only make a bad situation worse. On the report\u2019s own figures they would cost \u00a3300m in bureaucracy and \u00a33m a week in benefits (our figure is \u00a310m a week. See also Briefing Paper 11.11 – The True Cost of an Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants<\/a>). It would also cost \u00a36bn to provide the extra social housing needed.<\/P>
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Worse still, it would encourage still further illegal immigration as other countries have found. Italy has granted five amnesties in the last twenty years and Spain six; on virtually every occasion there were more applications each time. The report has no answer to this. it just remarks that it would only happen if border controls were ineffective.<\/P>
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But that is exactly the position we still face. We issue two million visas a year and there will be no full checks on departure until 2014, obviously, those granted an amnesty would be replaced at the drop of a hat.<\/P>
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The public have the common sense to see this. Our opinion poll <\/a>showed seventy per cent opposed to an amnesty.<\/P>
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The recent European elections must surely be a lesson to the political class that they can no longer ride roughshod over public opinion with absurd, expensive and self-defeating proposals such as these. It seems that Boris Johnson is trying to buy the immigrant vote with taxpayer’s money. They will know how to respond to this.’<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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