Category Archives: Mixed Reports

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Saturday May 11 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Arrests made across Scotland in immigration raids

Almost 50 people have been arrested across Scotland after being found to be working illegally. It follows a Home Office immigration enforcement operation which targeted licensed premises. Ten people were detained in Wick; 17 in Oban; 14 in Glasgow and seven in Dundee. The arrests took place on Thursday night....

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...

Monday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UNHCR’s Guterres thanks Kuwaiti Emir for US$110 million donation

High Commissioner António Guterres meets His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

(UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has visited Kuwait and personally thanked the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, for an unprecedented donation of US$110 million for UNHCR’s emergency operation for Syrian refugees. Guterres met His Highness Sheikh Saba in Kuwait’s Bayan Palace on Sunday...

Monday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Neo-Nazi Gang Member On Trial Over Murders

The surviving member of a neo-Nazi cell blamed for a series of racist murders in Germany has gone on trial. Thirty-eight-year-old Beate Zschaepe appeared in court in Munich charged with complicity in the murder of eight Turks, a Greek and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007. Scuffles took place outside...

Sunday May 05 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

“Free to Be Me” toolkit promotes child protection, combats child trafficking in Ghana

Ghana – IOM Ghana has rolled out a new information toolkit “Free to Be Me” designed to build local capacity in Ghana’s Volta region to prevent child trafficking and address protection concerns. Many trafficked children are forced to work in Lake Volta fishing communities under hazardous and exploitative conditions. The...

Saturday May 04 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Civil efforts key to true reconciliation, says Lord Alderdice

Former member of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, Lord Alderdice, addresses participants at Commonwealth roundtable on reconciliation True reconciliation requires building trust and relationships among communities emerging from conflicts, and in institutions and legal regimes for delivering justice, Lord John Alderdice, a former member of the Commonwealth Commission...

Wednesday May 01 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

‘Proof’ Jamestown settlers turned to cannibalism

Remains found in a rubbish hip in James Fort Virginia

BBC-Newly discovered human bones prove the first permanent British settlers in North America turned to cannibalism over the cruel winter of 1609-10, US researchers have said. Scientists found unusual cuts consistent with butchering for meat on human bones dumped in a rubbish pit. The four-century-old skull and tibia of a...

Monday April 29 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Derby councillor’s firm cleared over illegal immigrants

A firm run by a Derby councillor, which had been employing illegal immigrants, has been cleared by an investigation. In December five people were arrested following a raid by the UK Border Agency at A Star Clothing, in Stanhope Street, Normanton. But the firm, which was set up by Balbir...

Thursday April 25 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

World Malaria Day – Minister warns of progress slipping

The impressive progress made in tackling malaria across the world is in danger without sustained commitment from the international community, Lynne Featherstone said in Kinshasa today to mark World Malaria Day. The remarks came as the International Development minister, who is visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this...

Wednesday April 24 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Switzerland to restrict EU immigration

Switzerland says it intends to restrict immigration from all 27 members of the European Union. The government said it expected to apply a limit to the number of work permits issued over 12 months from May. Switzerland is not an EU member. It signed up to the bloc’s freedom of...

Tuesday April 23 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

A quarter of Romanians and Bulgarians say they want to look for work in UK – not that they’re doing anything about it

One in 25 Buglarians and one in 100 Romanians are actively looking for jobs in Britain next year when they will gain the right to live and work in this country, according to polls for BBC2’s Newsnight released last night. If all these people did eventually come to the UK...

Monday April 22 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Tory MP urges 20-year ban for migrants who abuse visas

Migrants who abuse their visa status should be barred from entering the UK again for 20 years, a MP has said. Conservative Mark Pritchard said there had been “unprecedented” abuse of the system that needed to be tackled. Non-EU migrants who overstay their visas must “regularise” their status by April...

Saturday April 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Emergency British food aid for those hit by hunger crisis in West Africa

Britain’s Development Secretary Justine Greening announced the new package which will help hundreds of thousands of people across the Sahel region – including those hit by the food crisis in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania and Niger. The £10 million programme will allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver emergency...

Friday April 19 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

New interim Directors General appointed

Sarah Rapson will lead UK Visas and Immigration, bringing her experience of managing a successful customer-focused organisation as Chief Executive of the Identity and Passport Service. David Wood will lead Immigration Enforcement, drawing on his background with the Metropolitan Police and as Director of Operations for UKBA. Permanent Secretary Mark...

Friday April 19 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Migration: Theresa May abandons 2015 exit-check target, says Labour

Home Secretary Theresa May has abandoned a pledge to reintroduce identity checks on everybody leaving the UK by 2015, Labour says. Exit checks are seen as vital if the UK is to combat illegal immigration. But Mrs May has now told MPs they are tied up with the troubled “e-borders”...

Friday April 19 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UNHCR chief warns Security Council of “terrifying” situation for Syria

UNHCR warns security Council of Situation for Syria (UNHCR)

(UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, warned the United Nations Security Council today that without an end to the fighting soon, almost half of Syria’s 20.8 million people could be in need of humanitarian help by the end of this year. In an address to the Council...

Friday April 19 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Mass migration is a symptom, not a cause, of crisis

David Goodhart’s recent article, “Why the left is wrong about immigration”, promoting his new book, The British Dream, begins with a swipe at the “idealistic young men and women” working in NGOs and law firms who work “to usher into this society as many people as possible from poor countries”....

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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