Posted on 08/05/2007 8:17:25 PM PDT by george76
Britain's face is changing. More than half of all babies born in London last year were the children of foreign-born mothers. Across England and Wales, the figure was approaching a quarter.
Recent polls... have put immigration at number one in the public's list of concerns. This used to be a polite way for people to tell pollsters that they were racists.
The asylum amnesty will apply to some of the backlog ...of economic migrants rather than refugees...
Calls for an amnesty have won the backing of church leaders and more than 80 MPs, led by Jon Cruddas, the former Labour deputy leadership contender.
When Spain declared a three-month amnesty for illegal immigrants in 2005...
The most remarkable impact of recent migration is shown in birth statistics, calculated by the Office for National Statistics and revealed today.
These show that out of 669,000 babies born last year in England and Wales, 147,000, or 22 per cent, were the children of foreign-born mothers. A further six per cent had British-born mothers but foreign-born fathers.
Among the foreign mothers, roughly a quarter were Asian ...
The figures also show that British-born women have, on average, 1.6 children ... The highest fertility rate is among women born in Pakistan but living in Britain, who have an average of 4.7 children.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yep. BORDERS LANGUAGE & CULTURE, Thanks Mike.
Is this situation different in Ireland ?
The Judeo/Christian culture and Western Civilization is the only one that does not treat women as less than human.
The assumption of virtually every poster on this thread is that this immigration is predominantly muslim. I can only assume that this is because they have only read the excerpt, rather than the full article, which is almost entirely about immigration from Eastern Europe (especially Poland). It’s this Eastern Europen immigration, especially of manual workers in industries like agriculture, which has been the most notable new feature of population change in the UK in the last few years. (N.B. not many Polish muslims, and the British Catholic church is in the middle of its biggest revival for many years).
The most common boy baby name last year in England was...?
Jack.
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