A selection of recent media reports

Fewer British Jobs for British Workers
The video about the impact of immigration on British Workers starts at 18:50/59:26
BBCTV The Politics Show 28 June, 2009 (03-Jul-2009)
Migrant squalor in Calais 'jungle'
BBC Paris Correspondent On a slip road close to the port of Calais in northern France, a group of dusty Afghan men are h...
BBC News (02-Jul-2009)
Calais advice centre for asylum seekers gets just FOUR inquiries a day
A United Nations mission offering asylum advice to British-bound migrants in Calais has had only four inquiries a day si...
Daily Mail (02-Jul-2009)
The Big Question: Why is the UN setting up in Calais and can it resolve the refugee problem?
Why are we asking this now? The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is formally establishing a full-ti...
The Independent (02-Jul-2009)
Farm raid nets 12 suspect workers
About 50 UK Border Agency officials and police officers raided Merryfield Farm, near Crediton, just before 0700 BST. It ...
BBC News UK (01-Jul-2009)
People protectionism
Rich countries respond to the economic downturn by trying to limit the flow of...
Economist (01-Jul-2009)
Thinking local: social housing changes
What's on offer? Ministers say they want to give local people greater priority on social lists that includes council an...
Guardian.co.uk (01-Jul-2009)
Vicar is arrested for 'organising 180 sham weddings for illegal immigrants'
A vicar has been arrested on suspicion of organising 180 sham weddings for illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe, it em...
Daily Mail (01-Jul-2009)
Immigrants take 70% of UK jobs
More than seven in 10 jobs created under the Labour government have been taken by foreign workers, according to a new re...
Personneltoday.com (01-Jul-2009)
Labours U-turn on social housing for non-immigrants is welcome but too late
Rod Liddle says that metropolitan liberal ideology is too deeply ingrained in local councils, social services and the ju...
The Spectator (01-Jul-2009)
Stick to your remit, MPs tell human rights watchdog
MPs warned a human rights watchdog yesterday to stick to its brief and keep out of a debate on further devolution. The w...
The Scotsman (01-Jul-2009)
British jobs for foreign workers: Experts reveal 70% of new jobs taken by migrants
More than seven out of ten jobs created under the Labour Government have been taken by foreign-born workers, experts rev...
Daily Mail (01-Jul-2009)
Last rites for ID cards read by Johnson
Britons will no longer be required to register for identity cards, says Home...
The Independent (01-Jul-2009)
£5BN CHAOS AS LABOUR RETREATS ON ID CARDS
GORDON Brown performed his most spectacular U-turn yet yesterday by scrapping Labour s £5billion compulsory identity car...
Daily Express (01-Jul-2009)
Like the rest of our myopic political elite, Mr Cameron should tell us whether - and how - he will deal with immigration..
For more than ten years, this newspaper and many of its columnists have been pointing out that immigration has been risi...
Daily Mail (01-Jul-2009)
A decent start but the Tories must be bolder
It's been a painfully long time coming, but at last the Tories have given the country a clear outline of how they will t...
Daily Mail (30-Jun-2009)
New British £750 million electronic border control plan 'breaks EU law'
Britains multi-million pound electronic borders project breaches European data protection laws and the free movement of ...
Times Online (30-Jun-2009)
At last, the truth about immigration and council house queue jumping .
The Government's announcement yesterday that they are handing councils new powers to give local people priority on the w...
The Daily Mail (30-Jun-2009)
E-borders 'travel chaos' warning
New electronic border controls being brought in by the government could cause chaos for travellers, the Commons home aff...
BBC News Political Edition (30-Jun-2009)
Report finds overseas staff take unpopular jobs but lack respect and recognition
Migrant care workers face pay discrimination, service user hostility and a lack of government recognition, despite the s...
Community Care (30-Jun-2009)
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An Introduction to MigrationWatch UK

While we appreciate the valuable contribution that many earlier immigrants have made, we believe that the numbers have now become too great. In 2007, net foreign immigration 333,000. According to the projections of the Office for National Statistics, the population of the UK will increase by nearly 10 million in the next 20 years, mainly in England. 70% of this increase will be due to immigration.

We believe that this will place an unacceptable strain on our public services, infrastructure and environment. Our concern is widely shared by the public, 81% want to see a substantial reduction in immigration.

We set out our thinking more fully in the following papers:

  1. What is the problem?
  2. What can be done?
  3. Frequently Asked Questions.
  4. Key statistics are contained in Briefing Papers 12.1.
  5. More about us can be found at Who we are.
  6. See also a list of our ten major achievements at Briefing Paper Section 13.2
  7. You may find the Power Point Presentation of particular interest.
  8. Your support would be welcome - see What you can do.

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Revised April 2009