IMMIGRATION
A report by the OECD has shown that the UK has taken the highest number of so-called asylum seekers of any country in the world for the last 4 years running. More even than countries the size of the USA and Canada.
This report coincides with a forecast from the Government Actuaries Department which predict that 5 million immigrants will arrive in the UK over the next 25 years.
The response from Des Browne, the Labour immigration minister, was to deny that the immigration would happen: ‘I don’t believe that these figures are going to materialise. A significant number of changes are going to take place between now and then’.
Sir Andrew Green from MigrationWatch said that: ‘Government assumptions about future immigration have consistently been well below the actual out-turn. In fact even higher numbers are likely as the government’s policies contribute to continuously rising immigration. They have themselves repeatedly said that they see no upper limit to legal immigration.’
This report coincides with a forecast from the Government Actuaries Department which predict that 5 million immigrants will arrive in the UK over the next 25 years.
The response from Des Browne, the Labour immigration minister, was to deny that the immigration would happen: ‘I don’t believe that these figures are going to materialise. A significant number of changes are going to take place between now and then’.
Sir Andrew Green from MigrationWatch said that: ‘Government assumptions about future immigration have consistently been well below the actual out-turn. In fact even higher numbers are likely as the government’s policies contribute to continuously rising immigration. They have themselves repeatedly said that they see no upper limit to legal immigration.’
posted by erc @ 9:12 pm
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