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Afghan Asylum Seeker Wins Right To Stay In Britain After Converting To Christianity

Afghan asylum seeker wins right to stay in Britain after converting to Christianity By Tom Kelly Mail Online Last updated at 12:39 AM on 18th November 2009 Comments (229) An Afghan who arrived in Britain on a hijacked jet has … Continue reading

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Queem’s Speech 2009 : Draft Immigration Bill

Queen's speech 2009: draft immigration bill Sets out sweeping reforms to immigration and asylum bill and simplifies legislation on migration Queen's speech focuses on pensioners, parents and economic recovery Alan Travis, home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 November 2009 11.48 … Continue reading

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Brown Toughens Rhetoric On Immigration

Brown toughens rhetoric on immigration By James Boxell, Home Affairs Correspondent FT.com Published: November 12 2009 14:20 Last updated: November 12 2009 14:20 Gordon Brown has stepped up the rhetoric on the issue of British jobs for British workers as … Continue reading

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Employers To Be Forced To Pass Tougher Test To Hire Migrants, Gordon Brown To Say

Employers to be forced to pass tougher test to hire migrants, Gordon Brown to say Gordon Brown will today pledge to make it tougher for foreign professionals like doctors and engineers to work in Britain as he announces a tightening … Continue reading

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British Jobs To Be Advertised Locally For A Month From Next Year

British jobs to be advertised locally for a month from next year Plans to give British workers a month's head start over migrant workers for new jobs will be introduced early next year. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Telegraph.co.uk … Continue reading

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Home Office Covered Up Immigration Risk

Home Office covered up immigration risk David Leppard From The Sunday Times November 8, 2009 245 Comments Labour's open door immigration policy knowingly risked allowing dangerous people to settle in Britain unchecked, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times. … Continue reading

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Britain Pays Child Benefit For More Than 50,000 Children Living Abroad

Britain pays child benefit for more than 50,000 children living abroad British taxpayers are funding child benefit payments for 37,900 children who live in Poland, Treasury figures show. By Rebecca Lefort Telegraph.co.uk Published: 10:00PM GMT 31 Oct 2009 The money … Continue reading

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UK Plans Zimbabwe Asylum Removals

UK plans Zimbabwe asylum removals By Dominic Casciani BBC News October 29, 2009 The Home Office has announced it wants to resume the removal of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers. Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the ground was being cleared to … Continue reading

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UK Immigration Officers In French Ports Set To Strike

UK immigration officers in French ports set to strike Mirror.co.uk 28/10/2009 More than 200 UK immigration officers in French ports are to strike. They are angry at plans to reduce their overseas allowances, which could cost them 500 a month. … Continue reading

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The Growing Rate Of Open-Door Migration: Number Of New Arrivals Has Surged By 150% Under Labour

The growing rate of open-door migration: Number of new arrivals has surged by 50% under Labour By James Slack Last updated at 12:22 AM on 27th October 2009 Comments (282) The rate at which foreigners are swelling the population has … Continue reading

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Immigrant Crime Fear Airbrushed From Gov’t Report

Immigrant crime fear airbrushed from Government report Warnings of links between mass immigration and crime were removed from a key Home Office report amid fears they would be used by critics, it has emerged. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor … Continue reading

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Jack Straw Denies ‘Secret Plot’ On Mass Immigration

Jack Straw denies 'secret plot' on mass immigration Jack Straw last night denied Labour had a “secret plot” to boost multiculturalism by creating an open door of mass immigration. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:00AM GMT 27 … Continue reading

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Taxpayer Funds 120,000 Pound Flight To Return Just Eight Afghans

Taxpayer funds 120,000 flight to return just eight Afghans A charter flight costing the taxpayer 120,000 was used to fly just eight failed asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Telegraph.co.uk … Continue reading

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‘Anti-Slavery Laws’ Before Lords

'Anti-slavery laws' before Lords BBC NEWS October 26, 2009 The House of Lords is expected to vote later on proposed new laws for England and Wales to deal with what campaigners are calling modern-day slavery. Liberty and Anti-Slavery International say … Continue reading

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Former Archbishop Calls For ‘Clear Caps On Population Growth’

Former Archbishop calls for “clear caps on population growth” By staff writers Ekklesia 25 Oct 2009 In what will be seen as a very unhelpful intervention to the debate on immigration by many church campaigners for the rights of migrants … Continue reading

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Labour Wanted Mass Immigration To Make UK More Multicultural, Says Former Adviser

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor … Continue reading

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Capital Unrecognisable Thanks To Immigration: Griffin

Capital unrecognisable thanks to immigration – Griffin (UKPA) October 23, 2009 BNP leader Nick Griffin has hit out at the way London has been transformed over the years, claiming uncontrolled immigration has “changed it beyond all recognition”. The far-right party … Continue reading

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BNP Leader Gets Mixed Reviews In London Stronghold

BNP leader gets mixed reviews in London stronghold By Catherine Bosley Reuters Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:23pm BST LONDON (Reuters) – Residents of one of the biggest strongholds of the far-right BNP were divided on Friday about the party leader's … Continue reading

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Britain ‘Forced To Take More Asylum Seekers’ Under EU Common Asylum Plan

Britain 'forced to take more asylum seekers' under EU common asylum plan Britain would be forced to take a greater number of asylum seekers under EU plans that would create a Europe-wide common asylum policy with uniform criteria for deciding … Continue reading

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Griffin Struggles To Defend Views In BBC Debate

Griffin struggles to defend views in BBC debate By Jim Pickard and Tim Bradshaw in London The Financial Times Published: October 22 2009 18:40 Last updated: October 22 2009 22:47 Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters demonstrated outside the BBCs London centre … Continue reading

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