Immigration Problems.

[Theland]

A government report yesterday described economic benefits of immigration.
Todays' report from eight of our regions says immigration adds �6bn to the economy, but that is only 1/2% of total production, and that the number of immigrants with their demands for services and the problems they cause virtually cancels out the benefit.
It goes on to say that nothing can be done about East European immigration because they are E.U. members, but that 3/4 of all immigrants come from the rest of the world, and this needs to be drastically reduced with work permits.
Even the Institute Of Directors have said this type of immigration should be curtailed.
What problems have you experienced with our immigration policy, and what should be done about it?

[ruby27]

Are you able to produce a link for the "Todays report from eight of our regions...."

Its just I can not tell from what you have written whether the report to be well researched and the findings supported by evidence, or whether its a load of inflammatory twaddle. So until I have had sight of it and can make a judgment about the validity of the findings

No I have not experienced any problems with the immigration policy, so what isn't broke doesn't need fixing.

[Theland]

Ruby - The report was being discussed on the radio 4 "Today" programme, and if you catch the 9am radio news, it should be item number two.
I have not looked at the radio 4 web site yet, but that I presume is where you will get the authentication.

[Theland]

Ruby - here's the link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7048205.stm

[ruby27]

Theland

thank you.
I will read up and get back

[ruby27]

Reading the report

It appears that immigration has had an impact; addition to the economy, but that there is also a cost to this in terms of demand on services. Not exactly earth shattering.

Dr Sriskandarajah says It's not surprising that migration has some social impacts in some circumstances - that's the case with any phenomenon,"
and
But what we need is effective intelligence about what the real pressure points are and how we should deal with them."

Not a lot more I can add to those rather balanced comments. I couldn't see where there is evidence that the cost outweigh the benefits.

[Lonnie]

The reports findings are not in the least surprising, This countries had an 'open door' policy for the last ten years,

John Prescott is on record as saying there's no limit to how many immigrants this country can take.

A couple of years ago, the goverment was muting the idea of giving all the illegal immigrants the vote, nothing came of it, but you can see in part why they did away with border controls.

[Gromit]

Do people who spout on about the the UK having an 'open door' policy, know what the phrase means. We do not have, never had, and never will an open door policy.

Think about it, if there were no checks, we would never know which were the illegals.