Miscellaneous -
Immigrants
Tony
Blair opened Britain’s doors to millions of
immigrants from former Iron Curtain countries.
The PM ruled they will be able to live and work
in Britain when their countries join the EU. Home
Office chiefs yesterday claimed the immigrants
will BOOST Britain’s economy. But most other
EU states are not letting them in. France,
Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg and
Austria have all refused to accept them —
insisting they could be a drain. Britain is among
a handful of EU nations willing to give people
from the new countries the same rights as those
in current member states.
Only Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden,
and Greece will welcome the migrants like
Britain. Eight former Iron Curtain states will
become EU members in January 2004 - Poland, the
Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary,
Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. The Mediterranean
islands of Cyprus and Malta will join at the same
time and get the same rights. All 10 have dole
queues adding up to millions of people. Critics
fear many will be drawn to the UK. But Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw said, “It will attract
workers we need in key sectors and is part of our
managed migration agenda.”
No10 said the move will STOP the new EU citizens
flooding here illegally. Last year 68,000 asylum
seekers came to Britain. Ministers said the
migrants will lose their right to work here if
there is a sudden recession. Poland’s PM
Leszek Miller, who has three million jobless
citizens, greeted the move, saying: “This is
a very positive decision. It is an important and
symbolic gesture.” But three out of four
voters believe Britain is a soft touch on
immigration, according to a Channel Four survey.
Immigrants
earn £404 a week on average compared to £338
for native Britons, Home Office figures show.
Tough
new asylum laws were criticised as
"draconian". Under the new measures
refugees must claim asylum immediately on
entering the country and prove a legitimate link
to Britain or face losing benefits. Asylum
seekers will not be entitled to help with living
costs or housing benefit if they do not follow
the new rules. Liberty, the Joint Council for the
Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the Refugee
Council have joined forces to challenge the
legislation in the High Court, claiming a
violation of human rights. The legislation was
approved as part of the Government's reform of
the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act.
Dennis Fernando, co-ordinator of the National
Assembly Against Racism, called the new measures
"draconian" and said refugees are
effectively being starved out of Britain.
Somalian
Abdulmalik Salad Hersi, an illegal immigrant
convicted of two rapes, is on the loose and
living on BENEFIT in Britain. He arrived in
Britain in 1998 and is still here, despite having
a bid for asylum rejected. How the hell is an
ILLEGAL immigrant receiving benefit?
Five
new cities, each the size of Birmingham, will be
needed over the next thirty years to house new
immigrants arriving here to settle in Britain.
That's according to the latest official
Government projections. Over this period, 5.2
million settlers will make up two-thirds of an
increase of 7.8 million in our country's
population. Given that the native British birth
rate is not even enough to keep our numbers
constant over that period, the rest of the rise
in population will be due to the descendants of
earlier waves of immigrants who arrived in
Britain during the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
The figures were published for the second time as
Variant Population Projections issued by the
Government's Actuary Department. Initial
estimates assumed net UK immigration at 103,000
per year, but this figure has now been revised
upward to 158,000 immigrants every year. These
figures are based solely on official records of
legal immigrants arriving on our shores. They
take no account of illegal immigration, which
will make the real figures considerably higher.
Three-quarters of this immigrant population
growth will be in South East England, already one
of the most densely populated areas of its size
on Earth. Responding to these frightening new
official figures, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of
the pressure group Migration Watch, raised
concerns which will be shared by many Britons who
see our homeland being thus overrun.
He said, "It is only every two years that
government figures provide the opportunity to
explore the impact of immigration on our
population, yet these figures have emerged on the
day after the Hutton Report and with no Press
announcement. They make it abundantly clear that
we face the highest levels of immigration in our
history. The whole nature of our society is being
irreversibly changed without the British people
even being consulted."
Immigration
chiefs stopped an illegal immigrant leaving
Britain at his own expense. The Albanian was
arrested for fake travel documents as he was
about to board a ferry for Norway. Magistrates in
North Shields, Tyne and Wear, gave him an
absolute discharge because he wants to leave the
UK. But he was rearrested by immigration officers
and held for deportation at the taxpayers’
expense.
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