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UK Immigration News Bulletin w/c September 3rd, 2007
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1. SWISS NATIONALIST DEPORTATION
PLAN CONDEMNED
Comparing that proposal with Nazi policies is a nonsense,
Swiss people have any right to protect themselves against
imported criminals. The BNP is committed to do the same in
the UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,2160047,00.html
Switzerland's largest political party was today accused of
promoting an oppressive deportation scheme that allegedly
mirrors a law operated by Nazi Germany. The nationalist Swiss
People's party, which shares power in the governing coalition,
has proposed new legislation that would see entire families
of immigrants deported if their children are convicted of
crimes involving violence, drugs or benefit fraud. If approved
in a proposed referendum, it would become the only law of
its kind in Europe. A campaign poster, condemned by anti-racism
campaigners, shows three white sheep kicking out a black sheep
with the strapline: "For more security." Ueli Maurer,
the People's party president, said: "We believe that
parents are responsible for bringing up their children. If
they can't do it properly, they will have to bear the consequences."
The party claims foreigners, who make up about 20% of the
Swiss population, are four times more likely to commit crimes
than Swiss nationals. "As soon as the first 10 families
and their children have been expelled from the country, then
things will get better at a stroke," Mr Maurer said.
Ronnie Bernheim, of the Swiss Foundation against Racism and
Anti-Semitism, said the proposal was similar to the Nazi practice
of "Sippenhaft" - or kin liability - whereby convicted
criminals and their relatives were held jointly responsible
and punished equally. He stressed that the vast majority of
immigrants in Switzerland were law-abiding. "If you don't
treat a complicated issue with the necessary nuance and care,
then you won't do it justice," Mr Bernheim said. The
UN High Commission for Refugees, which is based in Geneva,
said the law would contravene the UN refugee convention and
could also fall foul of European human rights legislation
and even Switzerland's own constitution. Recent polls have
put the People's party more than three points in front of
its closest rival, the Social Democrats, ahead of October's
elections for Switzerland's lower house of parliament. The
party is trying to collect the 100,000 signatures needed to
hold a referendum on its deportation scheme. In 2004 it successfully
campaigned for tighter immigration laws using the image of
black hands reaching into a pot filled with Swiss passports.
The party has also suggested banning the building of minaret
towers alongside mosques.
2. 'POINTLESS' TO DEPORT POLE WHO
RAPED WOMAN A WEEK AFTER HE ARRIVED IN BRITAIN
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=479123&in_page_id=1770
A Polish migrant subjected a British woman to a violent rape
only one week after he arrived in Britain, a court heard.
Michal Piotr Kwidzinski, 22, seized a 38-year-old barmaid
as she walked home from work in the early hours. The burly
6ft 5in Pole dragged his petite 5ft 2in victim into a builder's
van where he raped her three times whilst holding her down
by the neck and beating her head on the floor. A policeman
who arrived at the scene in Newquay, Cornwall, after a member
of the public heard the woman's screams was confronted by
the "enormous" frame of Kwidzinski and the victim
slumped in the corner, drenched in blood. The officer sprayed
CS gas into Kwidzinski's eyes but the rapist threw him to
the ground and he hit his head. However, he was rugby-tackled
by builder Timothy Miller who held him down until more police
arrived. Kwidzinski pleaded guilty to rape and assaulting
a police officer. Sentencing him to nine years in prison,
of which he will serve half, Judge John Neligan said it was
"pointless" for him to recommend deportation after
he has served his sentence because of "the current state
of the law". The court heard that Kwidzinski arrived
in Cornwall in February to start work as a flower picker.
Robert Linford, prosecuting, said: "He had been in Newquay
with friends and had been drinking a considerable amount.
"He became separated from his friend which annoyed him
a lot. "He was on his way to a disco when he bumped into
a Russian man who gave him some white powder that he said
was to help him have the energy and strength to work the next
day. "Clearly these were amphetamines. He tried to find
a disco and it was then he saw the victim in an alleyway."
He pulled at her sleeve and demanded sex and when she refused
he attacked her. He found a van belonging to a builder parked
nearby and forced the victim into the back where he started
to beat her. Mr Linford went on: "Afterwards the victim
was helped from the van by police and paramedics. She said
to one police officer: 'I thought he was going to kill me.
Thank you for saving my life'. "She was covered from
head to toe in blood and bruises, she had a bruised eye, swollen
lip and cuts to the back of her head." Malcolm Clarke,
mitigating, said Kwidzinski had had an argument on the phone
with his partner in Poland that evening and was drinking heavily,
as well as taking drugs and medication. He added: "He
is someone of good character who suddenly turned into a monster.
"He comes from a small village in Poland and wasn't used
to the bright lights of Newquay. "He is a Catholic man
who prays every day for forgiveness and the forgiveness of
his victim." The judge recommended that Mr Miller, who
went to investigate after his 15-year-old son heard screams
near his home, should receive a commendation for bravery and
also awarded him £100 in recognition of his public-spirited
action. The victim said after the hearing: "This has
changed my life for ever. I always thought rape happened to
someone else but it can happen to anyone, young or old. Please
be careful and have your wits about you."
3. RACIAL IMBALANCE IN OUR CITIES
PUTS BRITAIN AT RISK
Nice to see mainstream newspapers admitting the truth about
the long term consequences of mass immigration. This party
has been saying that for a long time and it was vilified as
racist and xenophobic.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/ourcomments/view/17872/Racial-imbalance-in-our-cities-puts-Britain-at-risk
White people will be in the minority in Birmingham, England’s
second city, within 20 years. That same milestone will be
passed in Leicester in just four years. The racial make-up
of our major cities is changing with a rapidity which has
never been known before. As recently as 2001, fewer than 30
per cent of Birmingham’s population was non-white. But
high birth rates among many ethnic communities, “white
flight” out of cities by indigenous people dismayed at
the marginalisation of their culture and a continuing high
level of immigration have accelerated the trend. During the
first major migrant influx from the New Commonwealth in the
middle of the last century, anyone predicting such a demographic
transformation would have been condemned as a scaremonger
or a lunatic. But now, when many British people return to
the districts of their birth, they report feeling like strangers
in their own land. The researchers from Manchester University
who uncovered these population trends claim they have no “practical
significance”. That may be a politically correct verdict
but it could not be more wrong. Encouraged by the failed doctrine
of multiculturalism, many minority communities have still
not accepted key aspects of the British way of life. In Birmingham,
the continuing expansion of a largely segregated Pakistani
community is likely to mean women’s rights and free speech
coming under further pressure and more of the episodes of
electoral fraud which have disfigured its politics in recent
years. It will surely mean, as well, an increase in the number
of terrorist sympathisers at large. That the culture and identity
of a great city such as Birmingham should be undermined in
this way is surely proof positive that the tiny liberal elite
which runs Britain – and hates it – is well on the
way to destroying it.
4. MORE THAN 8,000 EASTERN EUROPEANS
ARRIVE IN BRITAIN EVERY DAY
Only 13,000 of them were supposed to come but Government incompetence
on this topic is legendary. The real tragedy is that no one
knows how many are arriving unnoticed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=475119&in_page_%20id=1770
More than 8,350 Eastern Europeans are arriving in Britain
every day, official figures showed yesterday. Around three
million poured into the country in the 12 months to June -
an increase of a quarter over the year before. The Government
claims many of the arrivals are simply visiting friends and
relatives from the former Eastern Bloc, around 600,000 of
whom have moved here permanently since the EU's expansion
in May 2004. But no accurate record exists of how many of
the visitors actually go home. It is also thought many of
the arrivals, around half of whom are from Poland, are taking
advantage of cheap flights with budget airlines to look for
work or places to live in Britain before attempting to move
here permanently. The visitors include 210,000 from Romania
and Bulgaria, both of which joined the EU at the start of
this year. Some 117,000 from the two countries have come here
since January alone, when they were granted free access to
visit. The number of work permits handed out to Romanians
and Bulgarians is limited to 20,000. But ministers have just
begun a consultation on whether to lift the restrictions next
year. Yesterday's figures, published by the Office for National
Statistics, suggest that if the limit on work permits is lifted,
tens of thousands are likely to move here permanently. One
possibility is they are already investigating the jobs market
ahead of any decision by the Government. The tourist board
VisitBritain, however, welcomed the figures. It said Eastern
European tourists are making a major contribution to the economy,
with Poles alone spending more than £ 470million last
year. The number of visitors from Poland, at around 1.5million,
now outstrips arrivals from Australia and Japan combined.
As the number of holidaymakers from traditional visitor countries
declines, Eastern Europeans are taking their place. A spokesman
for VisitBritain said efforts were being made to market the
country to Poles, who have their own dedicated section on
the board's website. He added: "Poland has been one of
our "emerging markets" which we have invested in
since 2004. We have an office in Hungary, which manages our
activities in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic."
Tom Wright, the chief executive of Visit-Britain, said: "More
and more of our visitors now come from countries that are
less familiar with the full range of experiences available
here. "We must explore evermore creative means if we
are to attract them as well as support visits from more traditional
source markets.' The Home Office insisted the 3,050,000 visits
- 8,356 every day - made by Eastern Europeans in the past
year was not an indication of overall immigration. But, until
the Government's £1.2billion electronic borders project
is completed in 2014, there is no accurate record of how many
of them go home. The number of Eastern Europeans who have
registered to work here since May 2004 stands at more than
600,000, not including the Romanians and Bulgarians. Ministers
had predicted only 13,000 a year would arrive. The influx
has placed huge strain on schools, hospitals and housing.
This pressure forced the Home Office to limit the work permits
given to Romanians and Bulgarians. A Home Office spokesman
said no decision had been taken on whether to lift the restrictions.
"It remains too early to evaluate the full impact of
the accession," he added.
5. POLAND LOSING ITS MAIN ATTRACTION
- LOW COST POLISH WORKERS
It's now clear that opening the labour market to east European
is also hugely damaging the Polish economy.
http://www.masterpage.com.pl/outlook/200708/attractivness.html
Warsaw, Poland 13 August, 2007 Foreign investors have been
flocking to Poland with the expectation of finding a good
supply of well educated, low cost Polish workers. But they
continue to flee the country as recruiting firms tell companies
that they must hire specialists to help them find those that
are left. According to one recruiting Polish recruiting firm,
" radical change has (sic) created special challenges
for the foreign investors who are looking to benefit from
the booming economy, as well as for the companies that have
already set up shop in the former communist land." And
those changes strike at the base assumption made by many companies
in their decisions to come to Poland of having a good labor
pool to choose from. Poland's Ministry of Labor admits, in
spite of an official unemployment rate over 12%, to a shortage
of several hundred thousand workers and is looking to the
Far East, China and India for talent. Poland Turns To India
To Replace Departed Polish Workers And even with that ineffective
program in place, it also has opened its labor markets to
temporary workers from Russia and Ukraine. Such admissions
have not stopped foreign companies from opening shop in Poland.
Against heavy competition for what is left of the Polish labor
force, companies are driving wages up to attract people. And
those wages are going up rapidly. Just during the second quarter
of this year the average wage went up 8.9%. But the increased
wages have not seemed to phase the Polish workers who want
to leave Poland. The outflow of workers continues. And according
to polls, millions more want to leave. Millions Of Polish
Workers Want To Leave Poland … the situation has changed
since foreign businesses first flocked to the country to tap
into the exciting new market at the heart of continental Europe.
Then, its work force was young, high skilled and low-cost.
Since EU accession, however, wages have risen as Poles have
realized that their market value may be higher than their
salaries. There has also been a mass exodus of its workers
in lower paid professions to other EU labour markets. Special
Situation But it has not been just workers in the lower paid
professions that have gone West. The emigration wave has not
been discriminatory. All labor sectors have been affected.
With European money pouring into the Country and the expatriate
Poles sending money home, the economy is booming. And the
boom is creating a higher demand for labor making the shortage
worse. Foreign investors considering Poland do not seem aware
that there is a new reality in Poland. And those that are
here now, are being brought up short as they are being confronted
with a shrinking labor pool and rising wages. No longer can
one just place an advertisement in the help wanted sections
of the newspapers and expect results. A company must put significant
effort into even getting applications for work openings no
less finding the right people for a position. The problem
can get worse if the United States grants visa free travel
to Poles. That would create another destination for those
frustrated Poles who would choose the United States over Europe.
There is no sign of a change in the desire for Poles to leave
Poland and no sign of any significant number of people interested
in coming back. And the realty of the new Poland will slowly
sink in as Poland loses its most attractive asset for foreign
investors. And that might be too late for some.
6. BULGARIANS GIVEN GET-RICH-QUICK
GUIDE TO BRITAIN
The only losers of this mess are the British working class
but Labour doesn't care about them anymore.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84175
Bulgarians without UK visas or work permits have been told
to head to Britain where they can easily get black-market
jobs despite regular check-ups by authorities. An undercover
investigation revealed just how easily foreign workers can
land a job by using forged documents. A pair of Bulgarian
undercover reporters found they could earn illegally in a
day in London what most Bulgarians earn in a month, despite
the fact that they had no work permits. Journalists working
for 24 Chasa, one of Bulgaria's biggest newspapers, wrote
that they earned GBP 50 a day on a construction site and GBP
70 a day in a real estate agency. The average monthly wage
in Bulgaria is around GBP 70 a month. Their report 'Black
market jobs - a disgrace for England' revealed that neither
of their employers, nor the Health and Safety Agency officials
who performed regular check-ups at the construction site,
ever demanded a work permit. The undercover journalists' report
was published yesterday and concluded that Bulgarians travelling
to the UK illegally can easily attain jobs despite recent
measures to curb illegal immigration. The Bulgarian article
also quoted Home Secretary John Reid's statement that it will
be very difficult for UK authorities to stick to the government
restrictions for Bulgarian and Romanian workers after they
join the EU next year. One of the reporters described how
he went on a job interview in a real estate agency with a
fake CV and a forged home office document he had obtained
for GBP 30, stating that his visa was currently under consideration.
The reporter told the unnamed company's HR manager that his
self-employment visa had expired and that his passport was
with the home office while a new visa was being issued. He
was employed on the spot as a real estate agent despite the
fact that the only ID document he was able to produce was
his Bulgarian driving licence. The journalists also went to
an illegal labour market on the corner of Cricklewood Lane
and Sheldon Road in North London, which they said consisted
mainly of Poles, as well as Albanians, Romanians and Bulgarians
without work permits. The men stand there every morning between
6 and 8am waiting to get picked up by employers looking for
manual workers. The scheme reportedly involves English employers
who hire Indian, Pakistani or Albanian subcontractors, who
then look for black market workers willing to work for up
to 13 hours a day for GBP 50, less than half of what skilled
English labourers would demand. The rule among the workers
is to take the wage on the same day, as promises of weekly
payments reportedly often turned out to be frauds. The reporters
then described how they and ten Poles were picked up by an
Indian subcontractor with a bus and taken to a construction
site somewhere in London. The foreman at the site was also
a Bulgarian without a working permit. After working there
for a few days they were approached by another Albanian subcontractor
who offered them a job. He is quoted as saying: "If you
work well, I will give you food as well." In a separate
development, it was revealed that this year has seen a record
number of Bulgarian citizenships granted to foreigners. Over
6,000 foreigners have been granted Bulgarian citizenship since
the beginning of the year, in a trend that is believed to
be triggered by Bulgaria's admission to the European Union
this January.
7. RECOMMENDED READING
Overcrowded Britain by Ashley Mote MEP -
http://www.bnp.org.uk/shopping/excalibur/item.php?id=691
The great immigration scandal by Steve Moxon -
http://www.bnp.org.uk/shopping/excalibur/item.php?id=378
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