Immigration: Bull Points on Labour’s Record
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Migration Advisory Committee’s report, ‘Migrants in Low Skilled Work’
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Migration Advisory Committee’s report, ‘Migrants in Low Skilled Work’, released today. Commenting on the report Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This is a remarkably comprehensive report. It finds that the impact of low skilled immigration on both GDP per head and productivity is “tiny”. […]
Legal Aid in Immigration and Asylum Cases
As always with these legal briefing papers it is stressed that they are not published as authoritative legal advice but for general guidance and information for users of the Migration Watch website. 1 Restrictions on the availability of legal aid are imposed by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. the provisions […]
Boris Advertises Foreign Access to the National Health Service
A new booklet issued by the Mayor of London detailing how groups including illegal immigrants and foreign visitors can access the NHS – whether or not they are entitled to use it – has been branded an ‘absolute disgrace’ by think-tank Migration Watch UK, which is demanding its immediate recall. It is estimated that there are […]
Sham Marriages – The Latest
1 Sham marriages have been for long a scourge and a means by which people traffickers and other criminals earn illicit fortunes for arranging them. Recent changes in the law have made it necessary to issue a new briefing paper on the subject, superseding the three previous papers, 8.13, 8.38 and 8.49 (now deleted). At […]
Lifetime Unit Cost of an Illegal Immigrant if an Amnesty Were Granted
Introduction1 It is estimated that there are 1.1million illegal immigrants in the UK [1]. This paper provides the estimated unit Lifetime cost for an illegal immigrant if granted an amnesty. Summary2 The Lifetime costs of each working illegal immigrant once regularised are estimated at £220,000 for a single person, £560,000 for a sole earner family […]
Immigration and the EU elections
Summary1. The Labour manifesto repeats current claims for its existing immigration policy with no additional elements. The Conservatives have included a single (vacuous) paragraph. The Liberal Democrats adopt a pro-European tone but with no serious content. 2. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats state their support for the admission of Turkey to the EU. The Labour […]
Assessment of the Points Based System
The Government are introducing a Points Based System for economic migration to Britain. It is intended to select those most useful for the economy while balancing any such benefit against the impact of additional numbers on public services. The proposals are, to some extent, a simplification of the present system, reducing 80 immigration routes to […]
Election outcome could be determined by ‘non-citizens’
The result of a close election, whether local or national, might well be affected by nearly 1 million non – British citizens from the Commonwealth currently resident in the UK who, in a hang-over from the past, have the right to vote here, says a new report out today. Furthermore there are no checks on […]
Massive public demand for annual immigration limit.
The public have comprehensively rejected the Government’s ‘no limits’ immigration policy and instead have called for an annual limit on numbers. By 76% to 10% they strongly agreed (50%), or agreed (26%), there must be an annual limit to the number of immigrants allowed to come to Britain (only 4% strongly disagreeing), in a survey […]