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Actually anyone who says illegal immigration is bad is a liar.
Originally posted by Lady_Tuatha
Give this video a chance, it's under 3 minutes long.
Here is the wonderful Hollie McNish and her poem about immigration.
It is nice to get away from the hate sometimes!
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Originally posted by Lady_Tuatha
Give this video a chance, it's under 3 minutes long.
Here is the wonderful Hollie McNish and her poem about immigration.
It is nice to get away from the hate sometimes!
Why do you confuse legitimate immigration issues with "hate"?
I gave it a chance. Looks like your Poet is only looking at one side of the issue.
Besides.. this poem is Fiction. It seeks to make it look like immigrants Never take jobs away from the nationals but this is highly misleading and false. Don't you go confusing that with hate now - because it happens all the time.
Originally posted by samuel1990
My opinion is that we are all humans, we all inhabit the same planet. Why can't we get along?
I'm sure if an alien race were to attack us w'ed all fighting alongside each other to protect what is ours. Why can't we just have that mentality about us now before there is a possible threat? : (
One of the first letters I received was from a junior hospital doctor working close to Heathrow airport. ‘Every single week, I see people who have been flown in from all over the world with a variety of extremely serious health problems,’ he wrote. ‘Many of these people had to be wheelchaired on to the plane because they were too unwell to walk on board. I understand the temptation to come to Britain, but we often have our Intensive Therapy Unit full of patients without NHS numbers who are there for weeks or months with no means or intention to pay, which impacts on our resources.’
Set up by Labour, but acknowledged as the leading authority by governments of every hue, the Migration Advisory Committee finds that foreign workers do indeed take jobs that would otherwise go to Britons who are qualified and willing to do them.
To be precise, it estimates that 23 Britons are denied work for every 100 migrants allowed in – meaning that Labour’s open-door policy denied jobs to 160,000 British workers between 2005 and 2010, while substantially pushing up the costs of housing and schools.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk...
Prof John Howson, senior research fellow at Oxford University, said the shortage of places for five-year-olds was the “biggest problem” facing schools in England.
He warned that successive governments had failed to properly prepare for the surge in applications, which has been caused by rising birth rates and the effects of immigration.
The problem is that EU free movement rules allow anyone across the EU to come and live in the UK.
They will be eligible for housing and social security without having paid a penny into the pot. Under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, free movement is essential to EU membership and David Cameron hasn’t a hope in hell of renegotiating it.
Ministers wanted to avoid a repeat of the immigration chaos when Poland, Latvia and other former Eastern bloc states joined the EU three years earlier.
Immigration Minister Mark Harper yesterday insisted access to free healthcare will be limited to stop the NHS becoming an “international health service.” Entitlement to a string of welfare benefits will also be curbed.
Under the Labour government, 5.2 million foreign immigrants arrived in the UK.
The essence of the problem remains - namely that governments have lost control over our borders during the past fifteen years. This has resulted in immigration on a scale that is placing huge strain on our public services, housing, environment, society and quality of life. This note outlines the problem with reference to relevant Briefing Papers.
4. In recent years the focus of attention, particularly by the BBC, has been on migrants from the new Eastern European members of the EU. There has indeed been a massive inflow of migrants from Eastern Europe; by 2010 the number of people born in Eastern Europe but resident in the UK had risen to 776,000. [1] (Briefing Paper 4.9). The economic incentives for migration to the UK from Poland are significant - Polish families are able to increase their living standard by as much as four times by moving to the UK. (Briefing Paper 4.15)
Net migration accounts for over two-thirds of projected population growth
Tory MP Priti Patel said: “Hard-pressed taxpayers will be appalled to see their pockets being pillaged to pay out millions of pounds in child benefit payments for children living in other parts of Europe.
“This is deeply unfair and demonstrates yet again that some European immigrants are using crazy EU laws to get away with abusing our benefits system. The Government must get these loopholes closed.”
Labour MP Keith Vaz said: “Most people would think it wrong for people to receive child benefit when the children are living abroad permanently.”
The figures for overseas-bound child benefits were published in Parliament yesterday. They showed that £55.1million is being paid out to 24,000 families with 40,000 children living abroad. More than £36.6million of that is made up of child benefit while the rest – up to £18.5million – goes on child tax credit for almost 7,000 youngsters.
Most of the cash goes to eastern Europeans, with Poland top of the list.
'Back door' will let in 20,000 migrants
A TRADE deal between the EU and India, worth billions of pounds, could allow 20,000 workers into Britain by the back door, a senior MP said yesterday
Chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee Keith Vaz expressed serious concerns about the deal because of “strings-attached” demands by Indian IT giants.
Mr Vaz said Downing Street needed to be more candid about the influx of migrants and the possibility that British graduates might be undercut and squeezed out of jobs.
He said: “My concern is that although the Government strongly believes in reducing the number of people who come into this country, this EU-India Free Trade Agreement comes with strings.
“And the strings are that thousands of visas will be given to Indian companies to enable them to come and work in the EU, including the UK, under the intra-company transfer arrangements.
“So it comes at a cost, and that will be the effect on real immigration. They say they want to bring down immigrant numbers into the tens of thousands, but that’s not going to be achievable if you count all these intra-company transfer visas.”
Now half of sham marriages involve foreign students: Members of bogus colleges who face being kicked out marry Britons and EU citizens to prolong their stay.
Figures come from a snapshot Home Office survey over three months
It is revealed 50% of ceremonies involved people who had first entered as students
PUBLISHED: 00:02, 6 June 2013 | UPDATED: 08:24, 6 June 2013
In a major new immigration scam, half of all bogus weddings now involve foreign students.
The revelation shows the full scale of the past abuse of the student visa system.
The non-EU nationals faced removal from Britain after their bogus colleges were shut down in a crackdown by the Government.
A Home Office survey over three months revealed that 50 per cent of the ceremonies involved people who had first entered the country as students. But, instead of returning home, they are arranging fake weddings with British nationals or EU citizens to prolong their stay, often paying thousands of pounds in fees to 'fixers'.
Under a Brussels edict, marrying an EU citizen can grant the same rights to stay as marrying a Briton.
Officials say the trend shows that the migrants' true reason for travelling to the UK in the first place was to settle, not to study. Last year, they identified a suspected 2,000 sham marriages.
A snapshot Home Office survey over three months revealed that 50 per cent of the ceremonies involved people who had first entered as students.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... itizens-prolong-stay.html#ixzz2VQmxvQmE
While fewer than half of Britain’s police forces contributed to the data, meaning that the true figures will be much higher, the figures show that the total number of foreigners arrested for committing crime has risen by 76% in three years, going from 51,899 arrests in 2008 to 91,234 arrests in 2010.
One unfortunate area, Cambridgeshire, recorded an astounding 17,689% rise in arrests of foreign criminals in this period.
It is estimated that if all the Police Authorities in Britain had submitted figures, they would reveal that a staggering 750,000 foreign criminals have been arrested since 2008.
Originally posted by Lady_Tuatha
Give this video a chance, it's under 3 minutes long.
Here is the wonderful Hollie McNish and her poem about immigration.
It is nice to get away from the hate sometimes!
Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide
Article 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article 3
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Final picture of young graduate, 23, and her Polish boyfriend shopping in supermarket just hours before he murdered her with help of his secret lover so they could claim £123,000 life insurance
Rafal Nowak, 31, murdered girlfriend Catherine Wells-Burr, 23, as she slept
His secret lover Anna Lagwinowicz, 32, and her uncle dumped the body in a car before setting it on fire
They hatched the plot to secure life insurance
Victim's parents blame the European Union and say the Polish killer would not have been here if Britain had stricter immigration rules
Catherine's mother says: 'This government needs to wake up a bit'
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk...
Rolling in it: Romanian gangs behind nine in ten cashpoint robberies rake in £30m a year
More than 90 per cent of cash machine fraud in UK attributed to Romanian criminal gangs
Most of those arrested have links to the same city: Bacau in eastern Romania
Proceeds of crime 'now makes up 70 per cent of Bacau's economy'
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk...
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Originally posted by Tuttle
Actually anyone who says illegal immigration is bad is a liar. Plain and simple, it is lies. Most illegal immigrants pay sales, federal and state income taxes. Stop listening to idiotic politicians who are so bad at their job all they can do is make a fuss about illegal immigration hoping to get some talk time and cheap quick votes.
It is totaly idiotic to think for one second a piece of paper making you a legal entrant or an illegal entrant to a nation changes anything.
reply to post by 23432
The distinction made is only in the minds of human beings . In reality there is no difference between a legal and illegal human being
Exactly, refreshing to see you are not a brainwashed buffoon. Have a star.edit on 5-6-2013 by Tuttle because: (no reason given)