The much publicised proclamation by the Conservatives that they will reduce annual immigration by 75 percent will create major dilemmas across the UK according to the Joint Council for the Welfare of immigrants.
David Cameron’s bold claims, which dominated media this past week, have been denounced by the JCWI who argue that thousands of jobs will [...]

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Home Secretary Alan Johnson has declared that the spectre of the UK population reaching 70 million is terrorising residents.
Johnson’s grim statement is sure to further the ongoing conflict between the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) who has repeatedly claimed that the landmark will be reached in the next 20 years. Johnson [...]

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The Office for National Statistics has revealed that the number of UK residents that are from overseas reached a new high last year of 6.7 million.
The annual ONS report on population data further revealed that one in every eleven people who live in Britain had been born outside the country. Additionally, close to 25 percent [...]

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Last week saw the UK Home Office release immigration statistics for the period from July to September 2009. These statistics cover asylum applications, removals from the United Kingdom of illegal migrants and migration figures from Eastern Europe.
According to Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas the statistics show that net migration is falling, indicating that migrants [...]

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On a day where government released statistics showed that immigration fell by 163,000 in 2008 a new poll from Migrationwatch UK has revealed that the vast majority of the British public are worried about immigration and want it dramatically slashed to limit any forecasted population explosion.
In order to prevent the UK population reaching 70 million [...]

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A poll released last night shows the two in three UK voters feel that immigration is bad for Britain.
The survey, which looked at a range of policies regarding border control, revealed that 67 percent of voters feel that there was a negative effect on the UK from immigration. The majority of pollsters expressed concerns that [...]

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One of the world’s largest immigration companies, Global Visas, has announced today that it is recommending an Immigration Amnesty, citing the current climate in Britain as chaotic.
Liam Cilfford, head of Global Visas, said the public had called for an amnesty and evidence was that it was needed for some 400,000 people who were suffering under [...]

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Migrationwatch, the immigration think tank, has released a new report which seeks to quantify some of the misunderstandings over the true cost of migrants.
The report was made in response to a paper released by the London School of Economics earlier this year at the request of London Mayor Boris Johnson. When Johnson made the paper [...]

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