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The British public are considerably more conservative than the ruling Conservative party on the question of migration, polling shows.

Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.

The UK should prepare for high migration to become the new normal because of the country’s “ageing population”, a think tank has urged. 

Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to further accelerate mass immigration in the name of GDP growth, despite visas already being issued at record levels and communal violence between Muslims and Hindus in English cities.

Amid record net immigration and a collapse in deportations, Britain’s nominally Conservative government is dishing out even more visas to foreign graduates, undercutting skilled Britons.

Pro-border control think tank Migration Watch has warned that the illegal alien amnesty in Ireland will open a “back door to the UK” for migrants via the Common Travel Area. 

The British government has reportedly been warned that up to 65,000 illegal boat migrants will land on English soil this year.

Over 20,000 illegal migrants have landed on British soil since the start of the year, zero of whom have been deported by Boris Johnson’s government.

Nigel Farage questioned why illegal migration has disappeared from the headlines, as over 800 illegal boat migrants were brought ashore.

Migration Watch UK has slammed the British government for turning to thousands of foreign drivers to solve shortages which they believe were caused by bosses’ addiction to cheap overseas labour in the first place. 

Mass migration to the UK has resulted in huge demographic shifts which could lead to a breakdown in social cohesion, a report has found.

Mass migration has driven Britain’s foreign-born population to nine million and the ethnic minority population to 13 million in just 20 years, according to new estimates from Migration Watch UK.

The Boris Johnson administration’s supposedly tough new “points-based immigration system” will make it even easier for foreign students to stay in Britain as unskilled workers, Home Secretary Priti Patel has boasted.

What do I think of the Conservatives’ performance on immigration over the past ten years? After a good(ish) start, which saw the introduction of some sensible measures, it has been downhill. Their record over the past five years, however, has been little short of abysmal.

Boris Johnson’s government is scrapping the ‘Pick for Britain’ drive for British farm workers and increasing migrant recruitment to 30,000, with hundreds to come from the likes of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

Mass immigration into the United Kingdom increased by tens of thousands in the year to mid-2020, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Illegal boat migration to England hit a new high on Tuesday with 183 migrants being brought ashore at the port of Dover, as Home Secretary Priti Patel promised changes to the “broken” asylum system yet again.

Priti Patel’s Home Office has reportedly failed to launch a single deportation flight for illegal migrants since the United Kingdom left the European Union’s institutions at the beginning of the year.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, is expected announce new immigration routes to the United Kingdom in the coming budget, at a time when many Britons are out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic and legal and illegal immigration are already running at or near record highs.

The British government is “flying blind” on immigration, suggests a new report from the University of Oxford, with an extra 1.25 million people having “appeared” in statistics without a reasonable explanation.

The Migration Watch UK think tank described the introduction of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s points-based immigration system as a “total surrender to big business”, warning that the despite leaving the EU, the UK will see a rise in migration. Starting

A report from a mass migration sceptic think tank has revealed that the number of convicted foreign criminals freed to roam the streets of Britain has doubled since 2012, and warned that the increase poses a growing risk to families.

Migration Watch UK called for the deportation of the suspected Nigerian illegal migrants — who allegedly seized control of an oil tanker off the coast of the Isle of White on Sunday — after two former British immigration chiefs warned

Over 7,500 illegal boat migrants have reached the United Kingdom by crossing the English Channel from France since the start of the year, reaching the number that Migration Watch UK predicted would arrive in the country by the end of the year.

A poll has found that a majority of ‘Red Wall’ voters — who shifted from Labour to support Prime Minister Boris Johnson in last year’s general election — are opposed to the Conservative-led government’s lax immigration policies.

Net immigration reached an estimated 313,000 in the year from March 2019, leaving the Conservatives’ pledge to reduce the migrant inflow even further from being realised.

Migration Watch UK has warned that Boris Johnson’s so-called Australian-style point-based immigration system leaves Britain open to around 660 million foreign workers, as it has no cap on overall numbers.

Migration Watch UK has issued a report that predicts that the number of illegal boat migrants entering the United Kingdom will be more than 7,500 by the end of the year, as Home Secretary Priti Patel backs away from her pledge to make illegal migration an “infrequent phenomenon”.

What use is sovereign power over immigration when ministers seem intent on keeping immigration high — or making it even higher? 

Migration Watch UK has called for the government to impose age restrictions on foreign visitors to the United Kingdom during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in order to reduce the strain on the National Health Service (NHS).

The Migration Watch UK think tank has warned that Boris Johnson’s proposed “Australian-style points-based immigration system” may well lead to a sharp rise in immigration if it does not come with an annual cap on incomers.

British voters across all party allegiances, views on Brexit, and age profiles think there should be an annual cap on the number of migrant arrivals to the country after a Brexit, a new poll has found, prompting Brexit leader Nigel Farage to reflect it was time for the nation to “get serious” on the challenge.

Two-thirds of all so-called unauthorised immigrants in Europe live in just four member states, and by one count there are more illegals in the United Kingdom than any other EU nation, according to new research.

English schools will need to find almost 420,000 extra school places over the next decade, due in part to a baby boom among migrant mothers.

The Migration Watch UK think tank has slammed Boris Johnson’s latest proposal to give amnesty to illegal migrants who have been in Britain for 15 years, saying it would be “manna for traffickers”.

The Europe and Migration Minister for Scotland’s SNP-led devolved government claims proposals for it to be given powers to set its own open borders immigration policy are “making traction” with the British government.