Category Archives: Headline

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Operation Elveden: Ex-immigration centre employee arrested

A former immigration centre employee has been arrested by Met detectives investigating suspected corruption. The 40-year-old man was arrested at around 06:00 BST on Wednesday at his home in Slough, Berkshire, by police working on Operation Elveden. He was arrested on suspicion of corruption and suspicion of misconduct in public...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

‘Illegal’ store workers detained in Fraserburgh

Three illegal workers from Pakistan have been arrested at a Fraserburgh store, the Home Office has said. Officers acting on intelligence targeted Nickel and Dime on Saltoun Square on Tuesday afternoon. Three men aged 32, 36 and 41 were detained. Adam Scarcliffe, assistant director of the Home Office’s Scotland immigration...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Figures released on Bulgarian and Romanian migrant workers

More than 100,000 Bulgarian and Romanian nationals are working in the UK, official employment figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has for the first time published a breakdown of Romanians and Bulgarians in employment, an annual rise of nearly 15%. Bulgarians and Romanians will this year gain the...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Baby Sanika Ahmed’s arm surgery legal fight over

A baby girl who was refused NHS surgery to save the use of her arm because of her parents’ immigration status has had the operation, their solicitor said. Sanika Ahmed, from Southsea, Hampshire, has Erb’s palsy and needed surgery on her arm by the age of nine months. The Royal...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UN Goodwill Ambassador Jesús Vázquez visits Syrian refugees in Jordan

(UNHCR)- Popular Spanish TV presenter Jesús Vázquez visited Jordan this week to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, particularly the children, and to help raise urgently-needed funds for UNHCR’s Syria crisis operation. “I’m here to listen to what you have to say so that I can...

Wednesday May 15 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) publishes seasonal migrant workers report

British farmers should be able to recruit a sufficient number of seasonal workers in the first one to two years after working restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian nationals are lifted, according to evidence gathered by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). But in its latest report, the government’s independent advisory body...

Tuesday May 14 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Sudanese teen takes mother’s advice to embrace education rather than fear it

(UNHCR) – Takwa Baderdin is a shy 16-year-old girl who avoids making eye contact with people she does not know, but at the mention of her recent academic success her downcast eyes light up with pride. Like other children in South Sudan, Takwa was required to sit exams to complete...

Monday May 13 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Queen’s Speech signals a new Immigration Bill is on its way

The opening of the 2013-14 session of Parliament, with the Queen’s annual speech in the House of Lords offering an overview of the Government’s legislative programme for the year ahead, has turned out to be rather a muddle on the question of immigration. Immigration was trailed in the media, presumably...

Sunday May 12 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Some Countries Lobby for More in Race for Visas

WASHINGTON — The government of South Korea hired a former C.I.A. analyst, two White House veterans and a team of ex-Congressional staff members to help secure a few paragraphs in the giant immigration bill. Multimedia The government of Ireland, during St. Patrick’s Day festivities, appealed directly to President Obama and...

Saturday May 11 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Refugees in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State relocated

IOM is helping to relocate refugees from Jamam camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State to a new site that will offer better access to basic services and flood protection. Relocation operations began on 6 May and are expected to continue for the next seven to eight weeks. A total...

Saturday May 11 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Immigration officers make eight arrests in Northern Ireland

Eight people have been arrested in Northern Ireland within the last 24 hours by immigration enforcement officers from the Home Office. Eight of the arrests were made at two separate takeaway food outlets in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Officers discovered four people working illegally at the Hong Kong takeaway on Belmore...

Friday May 10 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UK Student visa interviews – Nigeria

From 9 May 2013, if you apply for a Tier 4 student visa you must now make an appointment online to attend the visa application centre. You will need to sit a short interview when you attend the visa application centre to submit your application and biometric information. The interview...

Thursday May 09 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UNHCR starts relocation of Sudanese refugees from flood-prone camp

(UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has this week begun the relocation of almost 20,000 Sudanese refugees from the flood-prone Jamam transit site in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state to a new camp on higher ground. The operation began on Monday and UNHCR hopes to complete the move to Kaya,...

Thursday May 09 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Tuareg refugees in Niger herd their livestock to safety

(UNHCR) – The long column of animals – flanked by men sitting high in the saddle – headed eastwards at a steady pace, raising clouds of dust on the trek towards new pastures. It may sound like a scene from a Western, but this drama was being played out thousands...

Thursday May 09 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Determined young Sudanese refugee puts her education ahead of marriage

(UNHCR) – Just over a year ago, Aida Budjut’s determination to continue with her education ran into stiff opposition from her grandmother, who believed that the 16-year-old should get married and bear children. But Aida, a refugee from Sudan, would not be swayed and with the support of a powerful...

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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