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Immigration 'harms life quality'
The UK immigration system is to undergo a shake-up Record levels of immigration are overcrowding the UK and helping to destroy people's quality of life, says a right-wing group of Conservative MPs. The Cornerstone Group says the number of migrants coming to the UK is pushing up housing prices, increasing road congestion and stretching services. The group calls for new controls of migrant numbers. The Home Office said immigration brought economic benefits, and that the rules for migration were right. Public services concern Home Secretary John Reid set out plans for a shake-up of the immigration and asylum system last week. They include visible, uniformed immigration officer at ports and airports, a reintroduction of embarkation controls and penalties for employers hiring illegal workers. The Cornerstone pamphlet is part of a submission for the Tories' review of immigration laws. Conservative MP Julian Brazier, who wrote the pamphlet, says the work permits system needs to be "radically" tightened. "Overcrowding is a key cause of many of the factors which are destroying quality of life: mortgage slavery, overdevelopment, congested roads, water shortages, flooding and overstretched public services," he said. "We should do everything we can sensibly - and fairly - do to reduce the level of immigration to well below the level of emigration. "The first and easiest step in this direction would be to return to a much smaller number of work permits, as occurred under all previous governments. "We should also restrict them, as was always the case before, to highly skilled people."   Benefits warning The government is already moving to a points-based migration system, designed to make it harder for unskilled migrants from outside the EU to get work permits to the UK. The Home Office said: "The UK enjoys the highest employment rate of the G8 economies and its lowest unemployment for 30 years, by virtue of its open labour market. Job vacancies are still high at around 600,000. "Treasury forecasts attribute 10% to 15% of economic trend growth to migration. The Bank of England... confirmed that overseas workers play a significant role in boosting the available pool of labour and helping ease shortages, therefore assisting in keeping down inflation. "We have the right rules for migration to Britain - but we need them enforced in a tough but effective way."   The Cornerstone pamphlet comes after a leaked Home Office document said there was evidence that the influx of foreign workers from the eight ex-communist countries which joined the EU in 2004 had driven down wages in low-paid jobs. It warned that ministers might be forced to abandon their refusal to grant council houses and welfare benefits to new arrivals who did not work. And it said government departments had been told to have emergency plans to deal with pressure on public services when Romania and Bulgaria join the EU next year. The reports prompted Labour MP Frank Field to say the UK should restrict the right of Bulgarians and Romanians to work in the UK when they join the EU.		MIGRATION DEBATE   KEY STORIES Immigration corruption 'is rife' Crimestoppers illegal worker plan Reid outlines immigration plans Immigration controls 'inadequate' Immigration amnesty ruled out 'UK has no policy on population'   FEATURES Alarm call Politicians are "living on borrowed time" over the immigration issue says Frank Field   Reid's year zero approach?     BACKGROUND An illegal immigration amnesty? The Spanish experience At-a-glance: Home Office woes   HAVE YOUR SAY Should border controls 'return'?   IN DEPTH LINKS Born Abroad Destination UK

 

 

[GeronL]

If you think thats bad, wait until they begin their jihad to overthrow your government

[claudiustg]

We just heard from friends that in Salinas, CA a major hospital was closing do to lack of funds from having to provide free services to so many illegals. Further, 3 libraries have closed and the city is threatening to cut back on police and fire services because of lack of money.

[Hugin]

Just poor hard-working people doing jobs that the British won't do. How dare those racists suggest that Britain should be British.

[LeoWindhorse]

UK should 'invite' all 'immigrants' to return to their nations of origin until :
1: further notice
2: they denounce Islam and pledge allegiance to their
adopted country

[Dallas59]

Just wait till cars start burning in your streets. All I can say is Good Luck cause I wouldn't lift a finger to help....

[Dustbunny]

Great Britain: Migrants 'ruining lives'(schools, hospitals and housing face 'disaster')

Same thing is happening here in the USA.

[Caipirabob]

We see the same pattern all over where countries that provide government subsidies for poor immigrants (legal or not.) The local hospitals in those areas tends to shut down after so many years of providing free services and failing to make the bottom line. Generally the burden is shifted to the rest of the system reducing quality of services to everyone. Great Britain is just a highly focused example of what's happening here in the US and probably Canada, although we don't hear their perspective on it as much.

We won't even discuss the subject of personal hygiene. Suffice to say the impact on QOL is tremendous.

[hershey]

Just the beginning.

[tdscpa]

No Shi'ite, Sherlock.

[backhoe]

Well, I've been trying to wake people up, for years:

Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Picture, and scroll backwards:

...and the barbarians are already inside our gates.

Never, ever, forget:

Where It's 9-11 all the Time: Click the Picture:

"Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets, and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember, stop to pray..."

...and at our neighbour's gates, as well:

Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )-- Click the picture:

And then, there is this little problem:

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

Well, I've been trying to wake people up, for years:

Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Picture, and scroll backwards:

...and the barbarians are already inside our gates.

Never, ever, forget:

Where It's 9-11 all the Time: Click the Picture:

"Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets, and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember, stop to pray..."

...and at our neighbour's gates, as well:

Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )-- Click the picture:

And then, there is this little problem:

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

[Let's Roll]

Yaeh, but I bet the gate's still open.