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The fiscal contribution of migrants
Summary1. A Home Office report in 2002 claimed that migrants contributed 2.5 billion more in taxes in 1999/2000 than they received in benefits and State services. 2. This claim has been continually repeated to support the assertion that the government’s policy of large-scale immigration is economically beneficial for the country.
Overview of Dutch asylum and immigration system
Dutch methods of regulating migrationJeroen Doomernik, IMES About the authorDr Jeroen Doomernik is researcher and programme manager at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) and lecturer in political science at the University of Amsterdam. He holds an MA in social anthropology and a PhD in human geography. Introduction1.
House of commons select committee on constitutional affairs
1 On 21 March Mr Justice Hodge (Sir Henry Hodge), President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) and Mr Justice Collins (Sir Andrew Collins), lead judge in the Administrative Court and former President of the now defunct Immigration Appeal Tribunal, gave evidence before this committee. The evidence given by
Home Affairs Select Committee (HAC) Report on Immigration Control | Migration Watch UK
On the 24 July, 2006 HAC issued a detailed report on immigration control. The press notice which summarises the report’s findings is available at here. This was followed by the Home Secretary’s proposals for reforming the systems and processes for managing immigration to the UK. A summary of the proposed changes
Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Act 2006
MigrationWatch Summary and comment This Act received Royal Assent on 30 March but is not yet in force. The Government has announced that it will start to bring the Act’s provisions into force in June 2006 with full implementation not expected until 2008. Although less voluminous than earlier Acts it
Home office response to opinion poll. | Migration Watch UK
The Home Office have made three points in reply to the Migrationwatch opinion poll issued today (see poll) which showed that 76 % of the population back an annual limit on immigration. None of their points stands up to a moment’s examination: 1. That the survey reflects the views of a “small
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