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Response to High Court ruling… | Migration Watch UK
In response to the High Court decision allowing a challenge by six asylum seekers against new rules denying them housing and benefit, Migrationwatch issued the following statement. ‘This is good news for asylum seekers but bad news for Britain – and again it exposes the chaos that is the Government’s
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
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
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
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
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
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