{"id":404,"date":"2008-03-27T10:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/2008\/03\/27\/migrationwatch-3\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:04:23","slug":"migrationwatch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/2008\/03\/27\/migrationwatch-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrationwatch response to report by the Independent Asylum Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.com\/Briefingpapers\/legal\/8_24.asp\">Responding to today\u2019s Interim report<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk\/\">Independent Asylum Commission<\/a> think-tank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/\">Migrationwatch<\/a> says that the document has completely ignored the fact that in recent years just over 60% of asylum claims in the UK have been rejected as not genuine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Despite its official sounding title, this is a private initiative by a number of charities involved in asylum issues \u2018said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.com\/profiles.asp\">Sir Andrew Green<\/a>, Migrationwatch chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Like them, we fully support a welcome for genuine refugees who are fleeing persecution. They now amount to only 3% of immigration but the extent of false claims and the failure to remove those concerned remain serious problems. If you set foot in Britain and say the word \u201casylum\u201d you have an 80% chance of staying, more often than not illegally. 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