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ID Card Scheme Cost Put At 5.4 Billion Pounds

Last Updated: Monday, 9 October 2006, 15:43 GMT 16:43 UK ID card scheme cost put at 5.4bn BBC News The ID card scheme will be introduced 'rapidly' The UK's national ID scheme will cost 5.4bn to set up and run … Continue reading

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U.K. Immigration Hits All-Time High

Last Updated: Thursday, 5 October 2006, 18:09 GMT 19:09 UK UK immigration hits all-time high By Evan Davis Economics editor, BBC News The surge has come from eastern Europe The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published its most comprehensive … Continue reading

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People Smugglers Made Millions

Last Updated: Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 15:24 GMT 16:24 UK People smugglers made millions By Richard Foster BBC News Leaders of a gang which made millions of pounds smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK have been jailed after Scotland Yard's … Continue reading

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Police Launch Unit To Tackle Trade In People

Police launch unit to tackle trade in people Sandra Laville Tuesday October 3, 2006 The Guardian Campaigners today called for the government to treat people trafficked into the country as victims of a crime rather than the perpetrators of an … Continue reading

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Migrants Fill Empty Pews As Britons Lose Faith

Migrants fill empty pews as Britons lose faith By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent The Telegraph (Filed: 18/09/2006) The rate of decline in church attendance has been slowed by an unexpected factor the influx of Christians from Africa and Europe. One … Continue reading

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Britain Must Regain A Pride In Its Identity, Chief Rabbi Warns

Britain must regain a pride in its identity, Chief Rabbi warns By Jonathan Wynne-Jones The Sunday Telegraph (Filed: 17/09/2006) A crisis of national and social identity is undermining Britain's efforts to integrate its immigrant population, according to the Chief Rabbi. … Continue reading

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East European Children At U.K. Schools Double

East European children at UK schools double in year By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent The Telegraph (Filed: 17/09/2006) The number of eastern European children in English schools has almost doubled in just a year, figures reveal. Almost 11,000 pupils from … Continue reading

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Tracing The First Jews Of Britain

Last Updated: Thursday, 14 September 2006, 10:49 GMT 11:49 UK Tracing the first Jews of Britain By Hanna White BBC News website It is 350 years since Jews were readmitted to England, three centuries after they were expelled. But can … Continue reading

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Blair Seeks To Calm Union Concerns On Globalization

Blair Seeks to Calm Union Concerns on Globalization (Update1) Bloomberg.com By Gonzalo Vina and Reed V. Landberg Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to soothe labor union concerns about immigration and the loss of jobs to emerging … Continue reading

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Westminster Pays Struggling Poles To Go Home

Westminster pays struggling Poles to go home By Sally Pook The Telegraph (Filed: 12/09/2006) Polish immigrants living in poverty in Britain after failing to find work and accommodation are being paid to return home by a London authority worried about … Continue reading

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Migrants Threaten Social Fabric, Says CBI Chief

Migrants threaten social fabric, says CBI chief Government should be wary of 'open door' policy Assess impact before next influx, warns Lambert Larry Elliott , economics editor Wednesday September 6, 2006 The Guardian The head of Britain's leading employers' organisation … Continue reading

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Analysis: U.K. Limits EU Immigration

Analysis: U.K. limits EU immigration United Press International LONDON, Aug. 31 (UPI) — The British government plans to limit immigration from Bulgaria and Romania upon their accession to the European Union in 2007, according to reports Thursday. The news came … Continue reading

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An Optimum Level For Immigration

August 29, 2006 An optimum level for immigration (From Migration Watch U.K.) The Home Secretary has recently suggested that an optimum level for immigration might be established. A Migrationwatch research paper (Read) suggests some criteria. Immigration is of long term … Continue reading

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Head Teacher Who Never Taught Again After Daring To Criticise Multiculturalism

Headteacher who never taught again after daring to criticise multiculturalism http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/27/nmulticul27.xml (Filed: 27/08/2006) Karyn Miller, Melissa Kite, James Orr, Nina Goswami, Roya Nikkhah, Telegraph (UK), August 27, 2006 Early yesterday afternoon, Ray Honeyford was listening with unconcealed delight to the … Continue reading

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‘Unqualified Interpreters’ Cause Chaos In Courts

'Unqualified interpreters' cause chaos in courts By Jasper Copping The Telegraph (Filed: 27/08/2006) Almost a third of police forces are using “unqualified” interpreters to conduct crucial interviews with foreign suspects. According to figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph, 13 of … Continue reading

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Foreign Prisoners Crisis Still Costing Millions

Foreign prisoners crisis still costing millions Jamie Doward, home affairs editor Sunday August 27, 2006 The Observer Taxpayers are paying millions of pounds to continue to detain more than 1,000 foreign prisoners who have already finished their jail sentences. The … Continue reading

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Migrants ‘Should Be Set A Wage Target of 27,000 Pounds’

Migrants 'should be set a wage target of 27,000' By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor The Telegraph (Filed: 29/08/2006) Immigrants unable to earn more than 27,000 a year should not be allowed to settle in Britain because they do not … Continue reading

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(Communities’ Secretary) Kelly Calls For ‘Honest Debate’ On Multiculturalism

Kelly calls for 'honest debate' on multiculturalism Mark Oliver and agencies Thursday August 24, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The communities secretary, Ruth Kelly, today called for a “new, honest debate” about rooting out extremism and argued it was “not racist” to … Continue reading

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EU Immigration Is Not The Problem

EU immigration is not the problem By Andrew Green Chairman of Migration Watch UK The Daily Telegraph, London, 24 August, 2006 In recent days, the press has been bursting with articles about east European immigration – but it is missing … Continue reading

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1,425,000 Migrants In Two Years?

1,425,000 migrants in two years? Analysis By Brian Wheeler Political reporter, BBC News When a senior official told MPs he did not have the “faintest idea” how many illegal immigrants there were in the UK it plunged an already battered … Continue reading

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