UK Immigrant Magazine

Monday May 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Najibullah Hashimi, Afghan Boy Whose Family Were Killed By Militants, Loses Fight To Stay In UK

An illegal immigrant who was smuggled into the UK after his father and brother were murdered by militants in his native Afghanistan has lost his fight to remain in the UK. Najibullah Hashimi, 19, has been living in England ever since fleeing his war-torn homeland as a youngster. He has...

Monday May 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Borders of the Mind: The uneasy politics of national frontiers and why it’s not always best to forever be in control

Two recent books look at what states do to people at their borders and how this often reflects what they do to others on their territory. Take note: Police regimes at national frontiers have a disturbing tendency to become police regimes over everyone… MAY 20, 2013 BY DON FLYNN The...

Monday May 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Humza Yousaf criticises UK immigration policies

The Scottish minister with responsibility for immigration has attacked the UK government’s approach to the issue. External Affairs minister Humza Yousaf said coalition policies were damaging the Scottish economy. He said Scottish society was united in opposition to the “restrictive” approach to immigration being pursued at Westminster. Conservative MSP Alex...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Quelling xenophobia in South Africa’s townships

(IRIN) – This week marks five years since tensions between foreigners and South Africans living in impoverished communities across the country erupted in xenophobic violence, leaving more than 60 people dead and tens of thousands displaced, their homes and businesses robbed and abandoned. Since May 2008, various initiatives have been...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Nigel Farage blasts ‘fascist’ protesters after Edinburgh confrontation

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described protesters who besieged him in an Edinburgh pub as “fascist scum”. Mr Farage had to be escorted from the Canons’ Gait pub in a police van after angry confrontations on Thursday. He told BBC Scotland the incident was deeply racist and displayed a total...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Detainees win torture claims test case

Hundreds of people who were tortured before seeking asylum in the UK could seek compensation and release from immigration detention. The High Court said the Home Office had failed to follow its own policy on releasing detainees who could show they were victims of torture. In a test case, five...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Eurovision Song Contest 2013: who will win?

Russia will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 on Saturday – that is if statistical analysis from Channel 4 News is correct. An analysis of voting patterns over the past ten years suggests that Russia will win the contest on Saturday evening, being held in Malmo, Sweden. The country will...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Jimmy Mubenga security guards had racist jokes on their mobile phones

A G4S security guard who was restraining an Angolan man who died as he was being deported from the UK had 65 racist jokes on his mobile phone when it was seized by police. Terry Hughes, one of three detention custody officers in charge of Jimmy Mubenga’s forced deportation in...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

NHS: Poles, paracetamol and the myth of health tourism

Yvette Cooper- Labour got things wrong; Courtesy of BBC

Never mind the stupid EU referendum, there were some truly regrettable things about the Queen’s Speech: chiefly, the proposals to tackle benefit and healthcare “tourism” (modern Conservatives use this previously bland word, used for simply exploring foreign countries, as a euphemism for deliberate exploitation. Who knows where tourism tourism will...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

People are told EU migrants steal jobs – in truth bosses want cheap labour

Having a referendum on membership of the EU is a bit like having a referendum on membership of the moon’s gravitational pull. You can vote to leave it all you like, but it will still be there, exerting the natural influence of its mass. Even China has EU regulations...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Number of Syrian refugees tops 1.5 million mark with many more expected

UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced on Friday that the number of Syrian civilians who have fled their country to escape conflict has passed the 1.5 million mark. “The Syrian conflict continues to have a devastating impact on the lives of those who are forced to flee,” added UNHCR...

Friday May 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Health ministers to focus on mental health inclusion

The Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting will look at ways of ensuring the economic and social inclusion of people with mental health challenges Commonwealth health ministers will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on 19 May 2013. A main item on the agenda will be to look at ways of ensuring the economic...

Friday May 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Commonwealth makes case for small, vulnerable countries at G20 meeting in Moscow

The contribution by the Commonwealth at this meeting has been timely, relevant and productive – Andrei Bokarev, chair of the Russian G20 Development Working Group The G20 group of the world’s leading economies should deepen consideration of the development concerns of small, poor and vulnerable economies in their efforts to...

Friday May 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Trafficking gang ‘smuggled Bangladeshis into Brazil

Brazilian police say they have identified a gang specialising in trafficking Bangladeshi nationals into the country. About 80 workers have been lured by their own countrymen with promises of earning up to $1,500 (£985) a month. But they ended up as slave labour in order to pay their smugglers nearly...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UK Census: almost half of foreign-born population hold UK passports

Just half of the foreign born population of England and Wales hold a non-UK passport and the vast majority of the non -white British population consider themselves British, according to new figures from the 2011 Census. 45.6% of usual residents born outside the UK hold a British passport, or 3.4m...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Girls and women are vital to progress in Nigeria

High rates of maternal mortality and violence against women make Nigeria one of the toughest places in the world to be born a girl, Lynne Featherstone said in Abuja today. The International Development minister made the comments after announcing a new £39 million UK programme which will work with over...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Support for Burma’s displaced and vulnerable people

Britain has pledged emergency food, drinking water and shelter to help people displaced in Rakhine State in western Burma. Minister for International Development Alan Duncan and Foreign Office Minister for South East Asia Hugo Swire today announced a £4.4 million package of humanitarian support for people displaced by violence and...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Greening: We must break the cycle of food shortages in Western Africa

The UK will help to prevent desperate food shortages and make Mali and the West African Sahel more stable and secure, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has announced. Mali has suffered from years of humanitarian crises, conflict and an evolving terrorist threat. It is firmly in Britain’s national security interest...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Gordon Brown: Conservatives close to being ‘Powellite’ on immigration

Gordon Brown has accused the Tories of adopting Enoch Powell-style rhetoric on immigration in their efforts to fight off advances by Ukip. The former prime minister claimed the Tories had become “very close to being Powellite” on immigration policies as they hardened their stance on Europe and welfare and performed...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Agricultural workers from Ukraine may be needed in future, May told

The home secretary, Theresa May, has been warned that she needs to consider bringing in more eastern European workers from countries such as Ukraine and Russia to the UK or face a sharp rise in fruit and veg prices and job losses in Conservative heartland seats. The official migration advisory...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Jimmy Mubenga inquest: he was asking for help and did not get it, wife says

The wife of an Angolan man who died as he was being deported from the UK broke down on Tuesday as she told an inquest how he had been asking for help during his last moments. Adrienne Makenda Kambana, the wife of Jimmy Mubenga, sobbed as she told the court...

Editorial- Who are the targets and victims of the immigration Speeches

At this year’s UKIP conference, the UKIP Leader said that both the Conservative party, Labour, and Liberal democrats are the same. It is ironic how the leaders of these parties in their recent disgraceful immigration speeches proved him right, by all engaging in xenophobia, and/or anti immigration rhetoric.

First, it was ED Miliband and his shadow home secretary who started pandering to xenophobia by apologising to the British public for being good to immigrants in the past, and for having welcomed immigrants from Eastern Europe, earlier than they should have done in 2004. Then came the Prime Minister, who threw caution to the wind, and gave an immigration speech reminiscent of the “rivers of blood speech”, crucify immigrants, stop them, deport them, deny them health service, deny them benefits, they are scroungers. Then appeared the deputy prime minister, as it was his turn to malign immigrants, and he did not disappoint. Crucify them, crucify them, and let them pay a mortgage, and/or lump sum and/or bond to be used to reduce our deficit if they fail to return home at the end of their visa.
Before I forget, all of them started their speeches with some sort of- do you know what; my father and/or grand parents came into UK as immigrants running away from persecution, and do you know what again; immigrants contribute……… to the British economy, but this small Ireland is now full. It reminds you of racists who start their racist chants with, “how can I be racist all my friends are black and my cousin married an Asian woman”. Just like Di Canio-“I am a fascist not a racist”.

The fallacy and paucity of their ranting are so glaring. United Kingdom can only minimally control immigration from EU member states, as she is signed up to the freedom of movement rights. The target of achieving net migration by reducing immigration from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands is also unachievable without recording all emigration from UK. So if these parties cannot really control EU immigration, who are the immigrants that are the subject and object of these ranting? It is definitely not American immigrants whom Ali Bai Brown indicated in a recent article, that their population in UK is more than that of Somalis and Jamaicans put together. They cannot also be referring to the white immigrants from Australia and New Zealand. So who are the targets of these attacks? They are citizens of the commonwealth. They are the only ones who can be threatened with evil bonds and considered as members of risky nations. They are the last to be hired and first to be fired. They are the easy targets for deportation and least with financial resources to resist abuse. They are the first to be hired for menial jobs, and the unsung heroes of UK’s growth and development.

I hate consistently voting inconsistent Labour; I am disappointed by the Liberal democrats, and I am clearly not thinking what the Conservatives are thinking. The UKIP may eventually be the winner after all.

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