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Population Set To Rise By 10 Million In Fastest Expansion Since The Sixties

Population set to rise by 10 million in fastest expansion since the Sixties It took 57 years for the population to rise from 50 million to 60 million. New figures predict that it will take just 24 years to increase … Continue reading

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Home Office Has Lost Track of 40,000 Rejected Migrants

Home Office has lost track of 40,000 rejected migrants Richard Ford, Home Correspondent From The Times October 21, 2009 40 Comments The Home Office has lost track of tens of thousands of migrants who were refused extensions to their visas … Continue reading

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Jump In Immigrant Number Since 2001

Jump in immigrant number since 2001 (UKPA) Oct 18, 2009 The number of immigrants in the UK has increased by more than two million since 2001, according to a Government-commissioned report. Consultancy Oxford Economics pointed to surveys that indicated there … Continue reading

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Iraq Sends Back UK Asylum Flight

Iraq sends back UK asylum flight By Marie Jackson The BBC News (U.K.), October 16, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8310572.stm Iraqi asylum seekers sent back to Baghdad by the UK government have been refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. … Continue reading

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Johnson Pressed On Immigration Rules

Johnson pressed on immigration rules By Brian Groom The Financial Times (London), October 16, 2009 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f40814a-b9b2-11de-a747-00144feab49a.html Business leaders are calling for Londons mayor to put a campaign against restrictive immigration rules at the centre of efforts to fend off threats … Continue reading

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UK’s BNP To Allow NonWhite Members

U.K.'s BNP to Allow Nonwhite Members The Associated Press, October 15, 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125560238010387173.html London (AP) — The far-right British National Party agreed Thursday to change its constitution to let nonwhite people become members. A government-backed rights body had taken the … Continue reading

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At Least 154,000 Asylum Seekers To Stay

At least 154,000 asylum seekers to stay By Tom Whitehead The Telegraph (U.K.), October 12, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6283126/At-least-154000-asylum-seekers-to-stay.html Less than one in ten of 450,000 historic cases that were ignored for years will face deportation, according to official projections in a … Continue reading

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Revealed: Courts Let Dangerous Foreign Criminals Stay In Britain

Revealed: courts let dangerous foreign criminals stay in Britain Dangerous foreign criminals are beating the Home Office to remain in the UK at the end of their prison sentences, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. By David Barrett The Telegraph (U.K.), … Continue reading

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French Councillor Held For Smuggling Migrants

French Councilor Held For Smuggling Migrants Taiwan News, October 9, 2009 http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1078297&lang=eng_news Britain's immigration authority has charged a French town councilor and her son with smuggling migrants into Britain. The U.K. Border Agency said Friday that 51-year old Christiane Chocat … Continue reading

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Keep Trafficking Unit, MET Urged

Keep trafficking unit, Met urged The BBC News (U.K.), October 7, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8293936.stm Proposals by the Metropolitan Police to disband its specialist human trafficking team have been attacked by several leading charities. The charities, including the NSPCC and Amnesty International, … Continue reading

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United Kingdom: A Reluctant Country Of Immigration

United Kingdom : A Reluctant Country Of Immigration by Will Somerville, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, and Maria Latorre for Migration Information Source http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1007-somerville.shtm Originally published on the Migration Information Source www.migrationinformation.org, a project of the Migration Policy Institute. Immigration to the United … Continue reading

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UK To Cut Pakistanis’ Visa Wait

UK to cut Pakistanis' visa wait The BBC News (U.K.), October 6, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8292941.stm Britain is to cut the time it takes to process visa applications by Pakistanis after a backlog delayed thousands. Speaking after talks in Islamabad, UK Home … Continue reading

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Calais Migrants To Get Flight Home And 1900 Pounds

Calais migrants to get flight home and 1,900 Hundreds of Afghan migrants will be flown home to Afghanistan from Calais on Tuesday with a 1,900 cash payment paid for by British and French taxpayers. By Peter Allen in Paris The … Continue reading

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Baroness Scotland Faces Questions Over Housekeeper’s Tax Affairs

Baroness Scotland faces questions over housekeepers tax affairs By John Bingham The Telegraph (U.K.), October 4, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6259379/Baroness-Scotland-faces-questions-over-housekeepers-tax-affairs.html The cleaner, a Tongan national who was working illegally in Britain after overstaying by five years on a student visa, claimed that … Continue reading

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Attorney General Sacks House-Keeper Alleged To Be Illegal Immigrant

Attorney-General sacks housekeeper alleged to be illegal immigrant Sam Coates and Sadie Gray From The Times September 17, 2009 The Attorney-General has dismissed her Tongan housekeeper after claims were made that she was an illegal immigrant. Baroness Scotland of Asthal … Continue reading

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Protests Await Arroyo In London : Migrant Group

Protests await Arroyo in London : migrant group Jerome Aning Philippine Daily Inquirer September 17, 2009 20:26:00 MANILA, Philippines A Filipino migrants group based in the United Kingdom has announced it will stage a picket protest on Friday in front … Continue reading

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Mohammed Is Most Popular Name For Baby Boys In London

Mohammed is most popular name for baby boys in London Mohammed is now the most common name for baby boys born in London and three other English regions, official Government figures have shown. By Rebecca Lefort and Ben Leapman Telegraph.co.uk … Continue reading

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Concerns Over Checks On Visa Applicants From Pakistan

Concerns over checks on visa applicants from Pakistan Fewer than one in every 2,000 visa applicants from Pakistan are being interviewed by British immigration officials. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:00AM BST 10 Sep 2009 The lack … Continue reading

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Alan Johnson Hopes For British Jobs For British Workers

Alan Johnson hopes for British jobs for British workers Plans to restrict the number of British jobs going to foreign workers will be unveiled by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary today. By Andrew Porter, Political Editor Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:01AM BST … Continue reading

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Immigrant Baby Boom ‘Costs 1Bn’

Immigrant baby boom 'costs 1bn' (UKPA) September 7, 2009 Building new schools for the “immigrant baby boom” could cost more than 1 billion, researchers found. More than 50,000 extra places will be needed at primary schools for the children of … Continue reading

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