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Sean Bryson   BNP UK Immigration News Bulletin
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1. GOVERNMENT 'WORKED OUT NUMBER OF UK MIGRANTS
BY ASKING 169'


Small wonder if the authorities don't know how many immigrants there are in UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=472513&in_page_id=1770

Official estimates of the number of Eastern Europeans coming to Britain were based on interviews with a handful of people, it has been claimed. Only 169 EU migrants were stopped and quizzed for a Government survey, said critics. From these interviews, it was concluded that 48,000 from eight Eastern European countries arrived in the course of a year. Council chiefs, who revealed details of the survey yesterday, said they were the latest evidence that the influx has been grossly underestimated. The allegations come amid growing controversy over the Government's alleged inability to make a realistic count of immigration in recent years. Local authorities complain that official headcounts do not tally with their experience, so Treasury grants are shifted elsewhere, while schools and social services struggle to cope. For example, the Government says the population has fallen by 3,000 in Slough, where 9,000 people - many of them Poles - applied for National Insurance numbers last year. According to the official figures, the population of Westminster has dropped by 15,500, despite evidence that 2,000 migrants a week arrive through Victoria coach station alone. Latest analyses suggest that more than 600,000 people from Poland and the seven other Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 came to live here during the first two years after borders were opened up. The criticism of the official count centres on the International Passenger Survey, the most important source of immigration information for the Government's Office for National Statistics. The survey is based on the results of interviews with those entering and leaving the country at air and seaports. The ONS used it as the basis for the finding that, in 2004, 48,000 from the eight new EU member states came to live in Britain. Yesterday, leaders of Torycontrolled Westminster Council said the estimate was based on interviews with just 169 people from not just Eastern Europe, but the whole of the EU. There were, the borough said, only 79 people interviewed at airports other than Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester. This meant hubs with large numbers of cheap flights from Eastern Europe, notably Stansted, Luton and Liverpool, went unchecked, it was claimed. Westminster also said that estimates of emigration - 360,000 were reckoned by the ONS to have left Britain in 2004 - were based on interviews with, for example, six people who left for Pakistan and the Caribbean. Westminster's deputy leader, Colin Barrow, said: 'We have considerable concerns about the use of the International Passenger Survey. 'We accept that a wide range of ports and non-major airports are covered by the IPS, but the numbers of migrants interviewed remains a serious issue. We think there needs to be a re-examination of the way the Government measures migration.' A spokesman for the Office for National Statistics insisted 2,801 immigrants were interviewed for the 2004 survey. He added: 'We know many EU migrants come through airports other than Heathrow. That's why we interview at all important ports, airports and the Channel Tunnel.'

2. NEW IMMIGRATION RULES IN SWEDEN SPLIT REFUGEE FAMILIES

Sweden is not renowned for being tough on immigration but on this occasion we entirely support this move.

http://www.thelocal.se/8032/20070729

Changes to immigration rules that make it more difficult for refugees to bring their families to Sweden have been criticized by the Swedish Board of Migration and the Red Cross. Previously people who have qualified as 'quota refugees' have been able to bring their families to Sweden under the quota refugee scheme. But under new changes introduced by the government, families do not qualify as quota refugees, according to Sveriges Radio. The changes mean that families have to apply separately for visas to Sweden once their relative has been accepted as a quota refugee. Officials at the Migration Board say that this can often lead to women and children being left alone and vulnerable in their home countries. It is often impractical for them to seek visas in Sweden, particularly if they live in countries without Swedish embassies. A Red Cross spokeswoman told Sveriges Radio that worry over relatives left behind was making it more difficult for refugees in Sweden to integrate.

3. PAKISTAN TO SEND BACK ALL AFGHAN REFUGEES BY 2009

Why can't Britain do the same?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pakistan_to_send_
back_all_Afghan_refugees_by_2009/articleshow/2243535.cms


Pakistan will send back all Afghan refugees, particularly those settled in Balochistan and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), to their homeland by 2009, a Minister has said. "Four Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan and the NWFP will be definitely closed and all the refugees would be sent back to their country by December 30, 2009," the 'Dawn' reported today, quoting Pakistan's Minister for States and Frontier Region Sardar Yar Mohammed Rind. According to government estimates, at present there are over two million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and a majority of them are settled in the NWFP. Stating that the government has been holding talks with local leaders in both the areas to work out ways for the peaceful closure of the camps, Rind said, "We don't want to send them (refugees) back by force because they have been our guests for 25 years. We want their honourable repatriation." He also expressed hope that both the governments of Balochistan and the NWPF would extend their cooperation in closing the camps. The government had already asked the 'unregistered' refugees, declared as 'illegal immigrants', to return to their country under the UNHCR's voluntary repatriation programme, the Minister said, adding $ 15 million has so far been spent in this regard. "The property and documents of all illegal Afghan immigrants would soon be confiscated as being foreigners they have no right to buy land in Pakistan," he said. Claiming that there're three lakh Afghan refugees without 'proof of registration' in the Islamic nation, Rind said that over two lakh 'illegal immigrants' had already been repatriated since the formal completion of the registration process.

4. MALAYSIAN DETENTION CENTERS DANGEROUSLY OVERCROWDED

Interesting how Malaysia is enforcing immigration laws. British politicians should be ashamed.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=8092

The Malaysian government’s daily crackdown o­n undocumented workers, including many people with refugee cards, has produced severely overcrowded conditions in the country’s detention centers, according to former detainees. “I felt hopeless to be in a Malaysia detention camp,” said Maung Myo, a Burmese Rohingya refugee released this week from a detention facility. “In rooms built for four people, authorities would detain as many as 15 to 20. So, there is no space to lie down or sleep during the day or night.” Another Rohingya refugee who refused to be named complained about the crowded conditions and poor treatment in the detention centers. “I never got enough food or drinking water,” the refugee said. “The water we used in the detention camp was contaminated, but we had no choice and had to drink it.” The refugee had spent about six months in the camp before being deported to the Malaysia-Thailand border. He paid nearly 1,500 Ringgit (US $432) to get back into Malaysia, where he required a stomach operation to correct a serious gastric illness o­nly a week after his return. Approximately 1 million undocumented migrant workers live in Malaysia, according to the Kuala Lumpur-based human rights group Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM). Malaysian rights groups and migrant worker advocacy organizations are concerned about the conditions in the government detention facilities. Aegile Fernandez from the migrant advocacy group Tenanaganita said that because the government is overcrowding the detention centers, they do not have the capacity to provide adequate food and care. “One of the major problems is health issues,” Fernandez said. “Also food, because of the large numbers. You're not able to give [detainees] enough food to eat so that is another problem. Our centers are not made to international standards. [Inmates] are just put in o­ne room and made to sleep o­n the floor.” SUARAM Executive Director Yap Sweeseng raised concerns about the lack of hygiene in detention centers. “Unhygienic conditions make the situation worse. Many have contracted diseases and there is no proper medical access for the detainees in the detention camp,” Yap said. The Malaysian daily newspaper The Star reported o­n Saturday that the country’s immigration officials were working hard to deport illegal workers because the country's 14 detention depots were almost full. According to Malaysia’s Immigration Department Director-General Datuk Wahid Md Don, authorities have caught 32,433 undocumented foreign workers this year from their nationwide operations. They have also initiated investigations against another 18,453 illegal migrants and have charged 13,980 others. Fernandez of the advocacy group Tenanaganita said the Malaysian government has to change it's attitude towards migrant workers. “[The government doesn't] see them as workers who are coming here, who are actually playing a big role in the economy and development of the country,” she said. “You come here, you work under whatever conditions, I throw you to jail and deport you. The whole idea of treating migrant workers as human beings, as guest workers in this country, is not there at all, and I think that has to change.”

5. CHILD SEX OFFENDER BANNED FROM AUSTRALIA

It would be nice if Britain did the same.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Child-sex-offender-banned-from-Australia/2007/08/03/1185648099896.html

A convicted child-sex offender found to have a soundproof cell in his Queensland home's backyard has been banned from Australia. New Zealand-born Brent Joseph Groves, 49, is living in Wellington after he was banned from Australia on April 30. Groves, who moved to Australia in 1969, was jailed in 2002 for drug offences and for indecently treating a child under 16. He was convicted again in 2004 on three counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16. Groves was known to wander around neighbourhoods carrying a kitten to attract children's attention, and to watch children with binoculars. A Queensland police spokeswoman said police had been investigating another matter when they went to Groves' property at Rosewood, west of Brisbane. In his backyard, police found a three square metre soundproof cell, built from blocks, with barred windows and an exit that required a key. The spokeswoman said no action was taken because there was "no law against building a bunker in a backyard". Groves told police he had built the cell to house precious possessions. Immigration officials revoked his visa on character grounds at Sydney airport as he tried to return on April 30. Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Perry, of Wellington CIB, said police were aware that Groves was in the area and were keeping an eye on him. "He's certainly a person of concern," Det Snr Sgt Perry said. Australian authorities advised New Zealand police Groves was sent back, and local New Zealand police carried out a risk assessment on him.

6. RUSSIAN MIGRATION DEPARTMENT BREAKS RECORD FOR FINES

This party has a strong admiration for the way Russia is committed to preserve its national identity.

http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=22516

The St. Petersburg and Lenoblast Federal Migration Department has collected a record 52.37 million rubles (over $2 million) in fines for violations of a new migration law restricting the influx of foreign workers in force since mid-January. The law not only imposes a maximum fine of 800,000 rubles on employers of illegal immigrant workers, but also makes the employer liable for his deportation or expulsion costs. While only a few hundred illegal immigrants were expelled from Russian territory during the period, President Vladimir Putin’s scheme to tempt overseas compatriots back to Russia to replace the foreign labor force has made little headway since it was made public over a year ago. “You have to believe in a plan before setting out to realize it,” said Police Major Yury Buryak, chief of the Migration Department, citing a series of hindrances in putting the presidential plan into practice. “St. Petersburg has been given a target of accommodating at least 8,000 workers belonging to this category [overseas Russians] but there’s not even a place to shelter them,” he said, adding that, “the same is true in the rest of Russia’s North West region.” Sandwiched between EU countries, Russia’s Western enclave of Kaliningrad is probably the most suitable place to execute Putin’s plan, according to Buryak, who cited a degree of success in meeting its target to attract 350,000 overseas Russians. Putin called for Russian migrants to return to their homeland to help fill in the population gap he called “Russia’s demographic crisis” in his address to the nation in April last year. Six months later, Putin met in St. Petersburg with about 600 representatives of the Russian Diaspora to tempt their 30 million compatriots to return with promises of work and living incentive packages. About three months latter, a law placing restrictions on foreign labor forces came into effect. “The real concern in Russia’s official circles is about an extinction of Russians as a race, rather than population decline in its traditional sense,” said Dmitry Dubrovsky, head of the modern ethnology and inter-ethnic relations department at St.Petersburg’s Russian Museum of Ethnography,” adding that “such cities [as St. Petersburg and Moscow] are as a rule attractive spots for both internal and foreign migrants,” without the necessity for a selective ethnic call. During the six-month period since the new law came into force, raids on 21,500 locations including construction and trading sites, housing, industrial and agricultural facilities in search of illegal foreign workers, migration officers located 366 foreigners from CIS countries who were either deported or expelled. There was no indication of a negative effect in the local labor market as 130,000 foreigners secured work permits during the period, less than a third of the demand in the city and its surrounding region, but more than four times the number of permits issued in the whole of last year, according to figures released by the migration authorities. According to Buryak, while 6 million foreign workers were needed across Russia, in St. Petersburg and Lenoblast there were 350,000 vacancies for foreign workers when the law came into force earlier in the year. Buryak said it was unlikely that those jobs would filled by the end of the year, citing problems that included lack of accommodation. He said that about 355,000 foreigners were registered during the period, but the actual number of illegal migrants is unknown, with more accurate estimates only expected at the end of the year. However, he ruled out long queues and bureaucratic red-tap as a factor leading to the low turnout for registration, saying that “there are no more queues in our offices and although it’s on a commercial basis, there are hundreds of post offices where foreigners are able to register themselves without having to come to us.” Asked if the crime rate had declined following the passage of the strict immigration law, Buryak said, “allegations that foreigners are responsible for most of crimes in the city are totally unfounded... only 1 percent of crimes [in the city] are committed by foreigners.” Though not attributing it to the law, he said “the rate of hate crimes has notably declined,” thanks to what he called “law enforcers’ awareness of the problem and their commitment in tackling xenophobia.”

7. RECOMMENDED READING:

"Overcrowded Britain" by Ashley Mote - an independent MEP:

Foreword by Lord Stoddart of Swindon Postscript by Trevor Colman, former police superintendent, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary Political correctness has hi-jacked our freedom to discuss one of the burning issues of the day - immigration. OverCrowded Britain will inevitably be condemned by the politically-correct, few of whom, Ashley Mote suggests, will bother to read it first. Which is why he argues for a full, open and – if necessary – controversial debate on immigration.

http://www.bnp.org.uk/shopping/excalibur/item.php?id=691