IMMIGRATION
Future historians may look back on 2005 as being a turning point in British history. Not only did Labour get away with rigging a general election, but the consequences of that, and the Tories’ unwillingness to properly tackle the immigration crisis, has led to a complete abandonment of any pretence at controlling immigration.
This will have continuing far reaching consequences and threatens the very existence of England, in which the English will become a racial minority in around 50 years unless the current policy on immigration can be reversed.
2005 was also the year in which wanton Muslim terrorism struck in England. This act of barbarity has not jolted the British ruling class out of its lethargic, snobby complacency as it should have done.
The sheer scale of immigration, both legal and illegal, is horrifying.
In the summer it was revealed by the National Audit Office [NAO] that the government had lost 128,500 failed asylum seekers. This is at a time when we are supposed to be fighting a war on terror and when England has become a target for Al Qaeda terrorists.
The NAO discovered that the government was only deporting 1,000 failed asylum seekers per month at a time when the number of unsuccessful new claims stood at 2,150 per month.
The Home Office figures showed that there were 283,500 failed asylum seekers who could be deported. Astonishingly, the Immigration and Nationality Directorate’s [IND] records only showed 155,000. The balance of 128,500 are missing. It is believed that they might have arrived before the IND’s database was set up in 2000, or that they might have gone home of their own accord [some hope].
However, 20,000 of the missing 128,500 are shown on local authority records as being in receipt of benefits!
Furthermore, a further 49,000 failed asylum seekers were still in the country because they had not lodged an appeal. The IND database assumes that all failed asylum seekers will lodge an appeal and hence does not register them as being ready for deportation until the appeal has been turned down. Since the 49,000 never appealed, the IND did not twig that they should be deported.
The incompetence involved is not confined to counting the immigrants. For example, a private contractor continued to receive payments for escorting failed asylum seekers to the Yarls Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire for 7 months after the centre had been burnt down in a riot.
The NAO urged the government to make greater efforts to promote assisted voluntary returns, which involves failed asylum seekers being offered free plane tickets and financial support. The current cost of voluntary returns is only £1,100 per departure. The current cost to deport an asylum seeker forcibly is many times that and on occasion special planes have been chartered to fly a handful of asylum seekers back to their own countries.
To be effective, this financial inducement for voluntary returns needs to be increased. But that could only be done after border controls are re-established, otherwise immigrants will come here in order to qualify for the money for assisted returns.
It was further revealed in the summer that the asylum system is such a shambles that it takes 2 months before there is even an initial assessment for a claim for asylum, and that an asylum seeker can expect to stay for 2 years even if his claim is complete nonsense.
There was, in the summer, a backlog of 35,000 cases subject to appeal and that it was taking 25 weeks to decide an appeal. 80% of appeals are refused. But even then, the NAO found that it would take an average of 403 days before the asylum seeker was deported - if he is deported that is.
Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch UK said:
With an 85% chance of staying here come what may, it is little wonder that the so-called asylum seekers keep on coming.
The rate of removals, far from increasing in the light of events, have in fact been falling. Only 14,906 failed asylum seekers were deported in 2004, which was only 80% of the number of deportations in the previous year. At the same time, there were a further 59,400 asylum claims refused. This is four times the number of removals.
At the current rate of deportations, it has been estimated that it would take 20 years to clear the backlog of failed asylum seekers - and this assumes that there are no new ones.
Jeremy Oppenheimer of the IND recently told the Public Accounts Committee, which was reviewing the NAO report, that the IND did not even know where 75% of failed asylum seekers were living. It was also revealed that 500 failed asylum seekers who had been jailed for as a result of their criminal activities in Britain had been set free. This was because it was alleged that they could not be sent back to their own countries as those countries were deemed to be dangerous and there was no agreement, regarding returned asylum seekers, with their governments.
As a sign of the times, despite the closure of Sangatte 3 years ago, so-called asylum seekers are massing at Calais once again. At any one time up to 800 illegal immigrants are living rough near Calais as they try to get across to England. They are being catered for by local charities which are providing food and clothing. The French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has admitted that the situation is getting steadily worse, but has pledged that there will not be another Sangatte opened despite calls from so-called human rights groups that one should be.
One Calais resident complained:
Recently 2 East Africans were accused of beating up a couple and there have also been robberies and sex assaults.
A sign of how much money organised crime rackets are making out of people smuggling, was highlighted recently by the arrest of 5 asylum seekers, who had been granted leave to remain in Britain. The suspects had then set up an multi-million pound immigration racket which was responsible for the smuggling of 100,000 illegal immigrants into the UK and another 100,000 into other European countries. The men had become millionaires as a result, and had further claimed many tens of thousands of pounds in benefits as well.
The gang used recruitment officers in Turkey to induce Kurds to pay up to £8,000 per time to be smuggled to Britain. The racketeers brought properties in Britain and abroad and invested in cafes, snooker halls and restaurants to launder their money.
Once in Britain, the immigrants disappeared into London’s Turkish community and the black economy.
At £8,000 per immigrant, 100,000 immigrants leads to a total income of £800million. Then there are the 100,000 immigrants smuggled to the other European countries. This shows the amount of money that is being made by organised crime as a result of the asylum shambles.
Another example is that of Obaidur Tipu and Mohammed Bar who made up to £1.8million from a fraudulent immigration service. The 2 men falsified applications for leave to remain in the Britain for immigrants, supported by forged letters stating that their clients had already been living here for more than the required 14 years.
As if all this is not bad enough, recent court decisions have virtually abolished any prospect of deporting phony asylum seekers. In a decision relating to 100 so-called asylum seekers from Zimbabwe, it was ruled that although an asylum seeker may be lying through his teeth about being a genuine refugee, he should still be allowed to stay because to send him back would be a breach of his human rights as he might be persecuted if he was sent back.
This was the decision of the Asylum Immigration Tribunal chairman, Mark Ockelton, who even criticised the government for not checking to see what happens to deportees. This was in a test case of an unidentified man known as AA, who had entered Britain in 2002 and had gone underground. He only claimed asylum after ‘encountering’ the police. He claimed to be an activist with the Zimbabwe opposition, the MDC, but did not even know what the initials stood for. The tribunal dismissed his claim for asylum as ‘fraudulent’, but Mr Ockelton said:
He said it.
It should be remembered, that in order to get to Britain, a so-called asylum seeker from Zimbabwe needs to travel by, over or through: Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, The Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Malta, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland. This ignores a whole host of other African and European countries both to the east and west of a route to Britain and which are far closer and easier to get to from Zimbabwe [eg Greece or the Ivory Coast].
The idea that anyone fleeing Zimbabwe enters this country as an asylum seeker is an absurdity. Of course Britain should help, but should do so through financial aid and not by allowing economic migrants to barge their way into our country.
Another recent example of the asylum farce was that of Ebun Agbaje, a Nigerian, who alleged that she should not be deported as she was afraid of black magic in Nigeria. She claimed that ‘some form of spirit or dark arts’ had caused a car crash which had killed her parents. She further claimed that the same Voodoo spirit had caused her to fall ill.
Although her asylum claim had been rejected, Mr Justice Bean ruled that she should be allowed to appeal as a medical specialist claimed that the trauma of being sent home could breach her human rights.
Meanwhile, notwithstanding the war on terror, it was revealed that 86,000 people from Algeria and Pakistan, both countries with strong links to Al Qaeda terrorism, were granted visas last year without interviews at all. Both countries have been linked to the terrorist activity in Britain.
Meanwhile, more than 230,000 east Europeans registered to work in Britain since the expansion of the EU. Officials estimated that 70,000 of them had already been here illegally.
Meanwhile, the problem of illegal immigrants entering Britain by enrolling as students, quite often in phony colleges, continues. 37 universities revealed, under the Freedom of Information Act, that 17,000 foreign students were granted places on a course but simply never showed up. This amounts to 6% of the 294,000 foreign students allowed into Britain last year. The Home Office has admitted that it has no idea of how many students are frauds, and organised crime rackets are known to offer forged recommendation letters and enrolment on fake courses.
A student visa costs £85 and allows the holder to work for up to 20 hours per week. It is a very easy route into the Britain. There are no checks on who leaves after finishing their studies. The NAO investigated this and found, for example, that 40% of Ghanians allowed into the Britain as students simply disappeared.
Furthermore, there are even greater numbers of extensions of student visas. For example, 425 Jamaicans applied to enter the UK as students and government figures showed that there were 780 Jamaican students in the UK in total. Yet the number of Jamaicans given visa extensions totaled 13,220.
The number of student visa extensions increased by 50% to 190,000.
An official survey last year found that of 1,200 colleges and language schools, no fewer than 300 were bogus and were simply a scam operated by organised crime rackets as a front for illegal immigration.
Despite a series of new rules designed to crack down on phony colleges, which include obliging colleges to report non-attendance, it has recently been revealed that the colleges are happy to turn a blind eye to such non-attendance and/or doctor the attendance records. Desmond Mason, the principal of the independent Westover College in Bournemouth has said:
The DfES register ensures that colleges have premises, but does not ensure that they are capable of offering genuine courses.
Tony Millns, the chief executive of English UK, which is lobbying for a compulsory accreditation scheme, has said:
294,000 student visas were issued to non-EU citizens last year.
Meanwhile, a UN report warned that 100,000 illegal immigrants enter Britain each year, and further criticised the Government for hiding the true number of illegal immigrants living here. The report by Khalid Koser of the Global Commission on International Migration, further warned that the scale of mass migration to Britain would continue.
A previous report by Professor Salt had estimated that the number of illegal immigrants in Britain was in the region of 570,000. This figure is arrived at by deducting the number of foreign nationals who are known to be living here legally from the total number who stated in the 2001 census that they were born overseas.
Needless to say, not all illegal immigrants diligently fill in their census forms. Furthermore, this 570,000 figure ignored the estimated 715,700 to 772,400 asylum seekers who were in the system at the time of the April 2001 census. Since the vast majority of those claims will have been adjudged to be false, and since there is no effort on the part of Labour to deport those failed asylum seekers, the overwhelming majority of them will be still here.
Then there are all the other forms of illegal immigration which have continued since 2001, as well as the continued inflow of so-called asylum seekers.
Previous estimates have put the number of illegal immigrants in the UK as being up to 1million, and this is the figure the English Rights Campaign has used [see English Rights Campaign entry dated 16 February 2005 for the item dated the 12 January]. It is clear however, that the true figure is therefore currently at least 1million.
Although the above immigration statistics apply to Britain or the UK as a whole, there is no disputing the fact that the overwhelming number of immigrants migrate to England. The result of this is that the population of England has now increased to a record 50million, according to the Office of National Statistics [ONS]. Roughly two thirds of the increase in population growth is caused by immigration.
Since the 50million figure was reached, in mid-2004, there has been a wave of new immigrants from eastern Europe. Nor does the 50million figure include illegal immigrants.
The result of this mass immigration is congested roads, a strain on public services [eg schools and hospitals], increased house prices and a shortage of housing, and increased unemployment. Professor John Guillebaud, co-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, has commented:
Since taking office, Labour has almost quadrupled the level of net migration. It was 59,000 in 1997 and was 222,600 in 2004 [the latest figure]. These figures exclude illegal immigration.
Another report by Migrationwatch UK, has revealed that Labour has let in 1.2million immigrants in the 7 years after taking office. Obviously that figure is increasing by the week. Migrationwatch has estimated that four-fifths of the increase in population growth is a direct result of immigration.
Immigrants themselves have children once they settle here, and this is an extra aspect of immigration population growth in addition to the simple numbers of immigrants settling here. Migrationwatch has calculated that 71% of the population increase is due to simple immigration [this is not dissimilar to the two-thirds increase cited by the ONS] and that once children born to immigrants are added in, then the figure reaches 81% of the total increase.
The 1.2million immigrants is equivalent to the combined population of Birmingham and Nottingham. The figure does not include illegal immigrants. Once illegal immigration is taken into account, Migrationwatch has estimated that immigration is running at 2million every 10 years.
Needless to say, this has an impact on England’s ability to absorb and assimilate such numbers of immigrants. Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch said:
A Home Office spokesman said:
Meanwhile, a study by the London School of Economics revealed that Britain’s visa rules were the softest in Europe. EU neighbours demand visas from 132 countries, whereas Britain only demanded them from 104 countries. The connections with The Commonwealth was partly responsible for this.
A report by the left wing Institute for Public Policy Research [IPPR] concluded that 25% of the population of London had been born outside the UK. The report only dealt with the figures to 2001 and excluded the children born to immigrants. East European immigration in the last couple of years has been substantial.
[In a sneaky piece of political correctness, the IPPR classified children born to British service personnel overseas as immigrants - as if they are foreigners.]
Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch pointed out:
Recent figures from the ONS show that a total of 494,100 non-Britons immigration to the UK last year. This is an increase of 21% over the figure of 406,800 in 2003. 117,300 of these were from EU countries.
The number of British people returning to the UK fell from 105,800 in 2003 to 88,000 in 2004. A record number of Britons emigrated, the figure rising to 207,600. 119,600 more British people left than returned.
The net immigration figure has increased to 222,600, an increase of roughly 50% compared to the 2003 figure of 151,000.
Furthermore, there were a total of 494,100 non-British immigrants. This is made up of 117,300 from the EU, 76,200 from the Old Commonwealth, 143,000 from the New Commonwealth, and 157,700 from other foreign countries.
With a net migration of 119,600 of Britons leaving and 494,100 non-British immigrants arriving, this constitutes a major change in the racial balance of the country.
The numbers from the New Commonwealth have almost trebled since Labour took office, from 58,700 in 1997 to 143,000 in 2004. This is almost 3 times the figure of New Commonwealth immigrants Enoch Powell cited when he made his 1968 speech, in which he said:
There are now far greater numbers of immigrants from other countries in addition.
The immigration figures cited in this entry are enormous. There is no control over immigration at all. It is no wonder that England is steadily sliding towards being a country riven by racial conflict. 2005 has been a turning point.
These are immigration figures and not figures for the increase in the proportion of the population accounted for by the immigrant communities. The immigrant communities double as a proportion of the population roughly every 20 years. It is Labour policy to turn the English into a racial minority in their own country within roughly 50 years.
Unless there can be a reversal of Labour policy, then the outlook for the English and a stable and prosperous England is grim.
This will have continuing far reaching consequences and threatens the very existence of England, in which the English will become a racial minority in around 50 years unless the current policy on immigration can be reversed.
2005 was also the year in which wanton Muslim terrorism struck in England. This act of barbarity has not jolted the British ruling class out of its lethargic, snobby complacency as it should have done.
The sheer scale of immigration, both legal and illegal, is horrifying.
In the summer it was revealed by the National Audit Office [NAO] that the government had lost 128,500 failed asylum seekers. This is at a time when we are supposed to be fighting a war on terror and when England has become a target for Al Qaeda terrorists.
The NAO discovered that the government was only deporting 1,000 failed asylum seekers per month at a time when the number of unsuccessful new claims stood at 2,150 per month.
The Home Office figures showed that there were 283,500 failed asylum seekers who could be deported. Astonishingly, the Immigration and Nationality Directorate’s [IND] records only showed 155,000. The balance of 128,500 are missing. It is believed that they might have arrived before the IND’s database was set up in 2000, or that they might have gone home of their own accord [some hope].
However, 20,000 of the missing 128,500 are shown on local authority records as being in receipt of benefits!
Furthermore, a further 49,000 failed asylum seekers were still in the country because they had not lodged an appeal. The IND database assumes that all failed asylum seekers will lodge an appeal and hence does not register them as being ready for deportation until the appeal has been turned down. Since the 49,000 never appealed, the IND did not twig that they should be deported.
The incompetence involved is not confined to counting the immigrants. For example, a private contractor continued to receive payments for escorting failed asylum seekers to the Yarls Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire for 7 months after the centre had been burnt down in a riot.
The NAO urged the government to make greater efforts to promote assisted voluntary returns, which involves failed asylum seekers being offered free plane tickets and financial support. The current cost of voluntary returns is only £1,100 per departure. The current cost to deport an asylum seeker forcibly is many times that and on occasion special planes have been chartered to fly a handful of asylum seekers back to their own countries.
To be effective, this financial inducement for voluntary returns needs to be increased. But that could only be done after border controls are re-established, otherwise immigrants will come here in order to qualify for the money for assisted returns.
It was further revealed in the summer that the asylum system is such a shambles that it takes 2 months before there is even an initial assessment for a claim for asylum, and that an asylum seeker can expect to stay for 2 years even if his claim is complete nonsense.
There was, in the summer, a backlog of 35,000 cases subject to appeal and that it was taking 25 weeks to decide an appeal. 80% of appeals are refused. But even then, the NAO found that it would take an average of 403 days before the asylum seeker was deported - if he is deported that is.
Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch UK said:
‘Any person who utters the word asylum is guaranteed nearly two years in Britain. They also have an 85% chance of staying here indefinitely because of the failure to remove.’
With an 85% chance of staying here come what may, it is little wonder that the so-called asylum seekers keep on coming.
The rate of removals, far from increasing in the light of events, have in fact been falling. Only 14,906 failed asylum seekers were deported in 2004, which was only 80% of the number of deportations in the previous year. At the same time, there were a further 59,400 asylum claims refused. This is four times the number of removals.
At the current rate of deportations, it has been estimated that it would take 20 years to clear the backlog of failed asylum seekers - and this assumes that there are no new ones.
Jeremy Oppenheimer of the IND recently told the Public Accounts Committee, which was reviewing the NAO report, that the IND did not even know where 75% of failed asylum seekers were living. It was also revealed that 500 failed asylum seekers who had been jailed for as a result of their criminal activities in Britain had been set free. This was because it was alleged that they could not be sent back to their own countries as those countries were deemed to be dangerous and there was no agreement, regarding returned asylum seekers, with their governments.
As a sign of the times, despite the closure of Sangatte 3 years ago, so-called asylum seekers are massing at Calais once again. At any one time up to 800 illegal immigrants are living rough near Calais as they try to get across to England. They are being catered for by local charities which are providing food and clothing. The French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has admitted that the situation is getting steadily worse, but has pledged that there will not be another Sangatte opened despite calls from so-called human rights groups that one should be.
One Calais resident complained:
‘You see these men loitering about the town all day. Many get involved in crimes. They can be very menacing. They will wait for their chance, and then break into lorries to try and get to England. Nothing seems to be done to prevent this happening.’
Recently 2 East Africans were accused of beating up a couple and there have also been robberies and sex assaults.
A sign of how much money organised crime rackets are making out of people smuggling, was highlighted recently by the arrest of 5 asylum seekers, who had been granted leave to remain in Britain. The suspects had then set up an multi-million pound immigration racket which was responsible for the smuggling of 100,000 illegal immigrants into the UK and another 100,000 into other European countries. The men had become millionaires as a result, and had further claimed many tens of thousands of pounds in benefits as well.
The gang used recruitment officers in Turkey to induce Kurds to pay up to £8,000 per time to be smuggled to Britain. The racketeers brought properties in Britain and abroad and invested in cafes, snooker halls and restaurants to launder their money.
Once in Britain, the immigrants disappeared into London’s Turkish community and the black economy.
At £8,000 per immigrant, 100,000 immigrants leads to a total income of £800million. Then there are the 100,000 immigrants smuggled to the other European countries. This shows the amount of money that is being made by organised crime as a result of the asylum shambles.
Another example is that of Obaidur Tipu and Mohammed Bar who made up to £1.8million from a fraudulent immigration service. The 2 men falsified applications for leave to remain in the Britain for immigrants, supported by forged letters stating that their clients had already been living here for more than the required 14 years.
As if all this is not bad enough, recent court decisions have virtually abolished any prospect of deporting phony asylum seekers. In a decision relating to 100 so-called asylum seekers from Zimbabwe, it was ruled that although an asylum seeker may be lying through his teeth about being a genuine refugee, he should still be allowed to stay because to send him back would be a breach of his human rights as he might be persecuted if he was sent back.
This was the decision of the Asylum Immigration Tribunal chairman, Mark Ockelton, who even criticised the government for not checking to see what happens to deportees. This was in a test case of an unidentified man known as AA, who had entered Britain in 2002 and had gone underground. He only claimed asylum after ‘encountering’ the police. He claimed to be an activist with the Zimbabwe opposition, the MDC, but did not even know what the initials stood for. The tribunal dismissed his claim for asylum as ‘fraudulent’, but Mr Ockelton said:
‘He has become a refugee by making a false claim to be a refugee. We fear our decision will seem to demonstrate or confirm refugee law is inherently prone to abuse.’
He said it.
It should be remembered, that in order to get to Britain, a so-called asylum seeker from Zimbabwe needs to travel by, over or through: Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, The Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Malta, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland. This ignores a whole host of other African and European countries both to the east and west of a route to Britain and which are far closer and easier to get to from Zimbabwe [eg Greece or the Ivory Coast].
The idea that anyone fleeing Zimbabwe enters this country as an asylum seeker is an absurdity. Of course Britain should help, but should do so through financial aid and not by allowing economic migrants to barge their way into our country.
Another recent example of the asylum farce was that of Ebun Agbaje, a Nigerian, who alleged that she should not be deported as she was afraid of black magic in Nigeria. She claimed that ‘some form of spirit or dark arts’ had caused a car crash which had killed her parents. She further claimed that the same Voodoo spirit had caused her to fall ill.
Although her asylum claim had been rejected, Mr Justice Bean ruled that she should be allowed to appeal as a medical specialist claimed that the trauma of being sent home could breach her human rights.
Meanwhile, notwithstanding the war on terror, it was revealed that 86,000 people from Algeria and Pakistan, both countries with strong links to Al Qaeda terrorism, were granted visas last year without interviews at all. Both countries have been linked to the terrorist activity in Britain.
Meanwhile, more than 230,000 east Europeans registered to work in Britain since the expansion of the EU. Officials estimated that 70,000 of them had already been here illegally.
Meanwhile, the problem of illegal immigrants entering Britain by enrolling as students, quite often in phony colleges, continues. 37 universities revealed, under the Freedom of Information Act, that 17,000 foreign students were granted places on a course but simply never showed up. This amounts to 6% of the 294,000 foreign students allowed into Britain last year. The Home Office has admitted that it has no idea of how many students are frauds, and organised crime rackets are known to offer forged recommendation letters and enrolment on fake courses.
A student visa costs £85 and allows the holder to work for up to 20 hours per week. It is a very easy route into the Britain. There are no checks on who leaves after finishing their studies. The NAO investigated this and found, for example, that 40% of Ghanians allowed into the Britain as students simply disappeared.
Furthermore, there are even greater numbers of extensions of student visas. For example, 425 Jamaicans applied to enter the UK as students and government figures showed that there were 780 Jamaican students in the UK in total. Yet the number of Jamaicans given visa extensions totaled 13,220.
The number of student visa extensions increased by 50% to 190,000.
An official survey last year found that of 1,200 colleges and language schools, no fewer than 300 were bogus and were simply a scam operated by organised crime rackets as a front for illegal immigration.
Despite a series of new rules designed to crack down on phony colleges, which include obliging colleges to report non-attendance, it has recently been revealed that the colleges are happy to turn a blind eye to such non-attendance and/or doctor the attendance records. Desmond Mason, the principal of the independent Westover College in Bournemouth has said:
‘People are happy making money out of selling student visas and the Government doesn’t seem to be interested. Some colleges are encouraging students not to come to classes so that they can have more students on their books than they can actually accommodate.
The Department for Education and Skills [DfES] providers register is full of rogue schools that have been reported numerous times for not abiding by the regulations.’
The DfES register ensures that colleges have premises, but does not ensure that they are capable of offering genuine courses.
Tony Millns, the chief executive of English UK, which is lobbying for a compulsory accreditation scheme, has said:
‘The DfES register has no quality dimension at all. My guess is you can get on the register by spending between £300 and £500 for company registration and other basic paperwork.’
294,000 student visas were issued to non-EU citizens last year.
Meanwhile, a UN report warned that 100,000 illegal immigrants enter Britain each year, and further criticised the Government for hiding the true number of illegal immigrants living here. The report by Khalid Koser of the Global Commission on International Migration, further warned that the scale of mass migration to Britain would continue.
A previous report by Professor Salt had estimated that the number of illegal immigrants in Britain was in the region of 570,000. This figure is arrived at by deducting the number of foreign nationals who are known to be living here legally from the total number who stated in the 2001 census that they were born overseas.
Needless to say, not all illegal immigrants diligently fill in their census forms. Furthermore, this 570,000 figure ignored the estimated 715,700 to 772,400 asylum seekers who were in the system at the time of the April 2001 census. Since the vast majority of those claims will have been adjudged to be false, and since there is no effort on the part of Labour to deport those failed asylum seekers, the overwhelming majority of them will be still here.
Then there are all the other forms of illegal immigration which have continued since 2001, as well as the continued inflow of so-called asylum seekers.
Previous estimates have put the number of illegal immigrants in the UK as being up to 1million, and this is the figure the English Rights Campaign has used [see English Rights Campaign entry dated 16 February 2005 for the item dated the 12 January]. It is clear however, that the true figure is therefore currently at least 1million.
Although the above immigration statistics apply to Britain or the UK as a whole, there is no disputing the fact that the overwhelming number of immigrants migrate to England. The result of this is that the population of England has now increased to a record 50million, according to the Office of National Statistics [ONS]. Roughly two thirds of the increase in population growth is caused by immigration.
Since the 50million figure was reached, in mid-2004, there has been a wave of new immigrants from eastern Europe. Nor does the 50million figure include illegal immigrants.
The result of this mass immigration is congested roads, a strain on public services [eg schools and hospitals], increased house prices and a shortage of housing, and increased unemployment. Professor John Guillebaud, co-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, has commented:
‘A small and crowded country like Britain cannot cope with the environmental pressures created by the rise in human numbers we are witnessing.’
Since taking office, Labour has almost quadrupled the level of net migration. It was 59,000 in 1997 and was 222,600 in 2004 [the latest figure]. These figures exclude illegal immigration.
Another report by Migrationwatch UK, has revealed that Labour has let in 1.2million immigrants in the 7 years after taking office. Obviously that figure is increasing by the week. Migrationwatch has estimated that four-fifths of the increase in population growth is a direct result of immigration.
Immigrants themselves have children once they settle here, and this is an extra aspect of immigration population growth in addition to the simple numbers of immigrants settling here. Migrationwatch has calculated that 71% of the population increase is due to simple immigration [this is not dissimilar to the two-thirds increase cited by the ONS] and that once children born to immigrants are added in, then the figure reaches 81% of the total increase.
The 1.2million immigrants is equivalent to the combined population of Birmingham and Nottingham. The figure does not include illegal immigrants. Once illegal immigration is taken into account, Migrationwatch has estimated that immigration is running at 2million every 10 years.
Needless to say, this has an impact on England’s ability to absorb and assimilate such numbers of immigrants. Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch said:
‘In a recent BBC/Mori poll, 23% of Muslims said the area where they lived did not feel like Britain any more because of immigration.’
A Home Office spokesman said:
‘These figures reflect the reality of globalisation in the 21st century ... Forecasts put forward by Migrationwatch are highly speculative. It has made no allowance for illegal entrants who leave and makes the misleading assumption that the average levels of migration since 1997 will continue over ten years.’
Meanwhile, a study by the London School of Economics revealed that Britain’s visa rules were the softest in Europe. EU neighbours demand visas from 132 countries, whereas Britain only demanded them from 104 countries. The connections with The Commonwealth was partly responsible for this.
A report by the left wing Institute for Public Policy Research [IPPR] concluded that 25% of the population of London had been born outside the UK. The report only dealt with the figures to 2001 and excluded the children born to immigrants. East European immigration in the last couple of years has been substantial.
[In a sneaky piece of political correctness, the IPPR classified children born to British service personnel overseas as immigrants - as if they are foreigners.]
Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch pointed out:
'The rate of immigration has trebled, it will add 5million to the population over 30 years. This is not scaremongering. These are the Government’s own figures.
There is a democracy point here - 70% of the population believe there are too many immigrants coming to Britain.
Interestingly, 60% of Asians agree with that. And the Government is simply riding roughshod over the views of the public. I think that is a very serious mistake and it will not help integration.’
Recent figures from the ONS show that a total of 494,100 non-Britons immigration to the UK last year. This is an increase of 21% over the figure of 406,800 in 2003. 117,300 of these were from EU countries.
The number of British people returning to the UK fell from 105,800 in 2003 to 88,000 in 2004. A record number of Britons emigrated, the figure rising to 207,600. 119,600 more British people left than returned.
The net immigration figure has increased to 222,600, an increase of roughly 50% compared to the 2003 figure of 151,000.
Furthermore, there were a total of 494,100 non-British immigrants. This is made up of 117,300 from the EU, 76,200 from the Old Commonwealth, 143,000 from the New Commonwealth, and 157,700 from other foreign countries.
With a net migration of 119,600 of Britons leaving and 494,100 non-British immigrants arriving, this constitutes a major change in the racial balance of the country.
The numbers from the New Commonwealth have almost trebled since Labour took office, from 58,700 in 1997 to 143,000 in 2004. This is almost 3 times the figure of New Commonwealth immigrants Enoch Powell cited when he made his 1968 speech, in which he said:
‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancees whom they have never seen.’
There are now far greater numbers of immigrants from other countries in addition.
The immigration figures cited in this entry are enormous. There is no control over immigration at all. It is no wonder that England is steadily sliding towards being a country riven by racial conflict. 2005 has been a turning point.
These are immigration figures and not figures for the increase in the proportion of the population accounted for by the immigrant communities. The immigrant communities double as a proportion of the population roughly every 20 years. It is Labour policy to turn the English into a racial minority in their own country within roughly 50 years.
Unless there can be a reversal of Labour policy, then the outlook for the English and a stable and prosperous England is grim.
posted by erc @ 10:55 pm
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