A selection of recent media reports

Geert Wilders denounces Australian Muslim leader's call for beheading
Geert Wilders, the maverick Dutch politician, denounced a Australian Muslim leaders call for his beheading for denig...
Telegraph.co.uk (03-Sep-2010)
Murderer dubbed 'The Beast' died from heart disease
A serial rapist dubbed "The Beast" died from heart failure while serving a life term for murdering a 12-year-old girl in...
BBC News England (03-Sep-2010)
Border officials find 15 stowaways in lorries
BORDER officials have stopped 15 stowaways from illegally entering the country in lorries bound for Yorkshire, including...
Yorkshire Post (03-Sep-2010)
Restaurant booze ban as raid nets illegal workers
A Chinese restaurant has been banned from selling alcohol for six months after a raid by immigration officials, gang-bus...
Evening Times (03-Sep-2010)
Tony Blair has rewritten history without modesty or shame
If he wasn't in charge of the country when it all started to go wrong, then who was, asks Jeff Randall.
Daily Telegraph (03-Sep-2010)
1,000 are paid £800 a week housing benefit
MORE than a THOUSAND families rake in a whopping £800 a week or MORE in housing benefit, The Sun can...
The Scottish Sun (03-Sep-2010)
COLONEL GADDAFI MAY BE PAID BY EU TO STOP IMMIGRATION
SENIOR Eurocrats are considering a demand from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for billions of pounds of taxpayers cash to...
Scottish Daily Express (03-Sep-2010)
BBC had "massive bias to left:" director general
The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a "massive bias to the left" ...
Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (03-Sep-2010)
RECORD INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION AS POPULATION SOARS
IMMIGRATION sent the population of England and Wales soaring by a record amount last...
Daily Star (03-Sep-2010)
Why do Finland's schools get the best results?
Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn the secret of their school...
BBC News Southern Counties (02-Sep-2010)
Illegal migrants caught after restaurant raid in Ely
Immigration officers have found three illegal workers and another two illegal migrants during a raid on a Chinese restau...
BBC News England (02-Sep-2010)
Indian student visas fall by half in Australia
The number of Indians granted student visas in Australia during the last financial year has fallen to 29,721, less than ...
Irish Sun (02-Sep-2010)
Illegal immigrants caught at V
THREE men were arrested in the UK Border Agencys first operation at V Festivals Chelmsford site. Officers arrested two ...
Chelmsford Weekly News (02-Sep-2010)
There was massive left-wing bias at the BBC
In his first major interview since giving the MacTaggart Lecture in Edinburgh, Mark Thompson talks about political press...
New Statesman (02-Sep-2010)
Cannabis factory at industrial unit was UK's biggest
The largest cannabis factory found in the UK last year was in an industrial unit in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire. More tha...
Lynn News (02-Sep-2010)
Outraged' MEPs attack France over Roma policy
Political groups in the Parliament ready to recommend a formal condemnation of Nicolas...
European Voice (02-Sep-2010)
BBC 'HAD MASSIVE BIAS TO THE LEFT'
The BBC was guilty of a "massive bias to the left" in the past, director general Mark Thompson has...
Daily Star (02-Sep-2010)
POLICE FURY AS PATROLS ARE CUT AT SCOTS PORTS
SCOTLAND will become a soft target for illegal immigrants after police patrols were cut at one of the country s busiest ...
Express.co.uk (02-Sep-2010)
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Tony Blair and a wasted journey
In one respect, Tony Blair's long awaited memoir cannot be faulted - it's a true reflection of its author. Beguiling, un...
Mail Online (02-Sep-2010)
I was seconds away from ordering RAF to blast passenger jet
TONY Blair came within seconds of ordering the RAF to shoot down an airliner over...
The Scottish Sun (02-Sep-2010)
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Archived Briefing Papers

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1. Economic
1.0
Guide to Economic Papers (Nov 2006) [View PDF]
1.1
Migrants : Do they bring economic benefit? (Mar 2005) [View PDF]
1.2
The fiscal impact of immigration to the UK (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
1.3
Immigration and the Dutch economy (Aug 2004) [View PDF]
1.4
Costs of Illegal Immigration (Aug 2004)
1.5
Contribution of Immigration to GDP (Jan 2005) [View PDF]
1.6
Immigration and the Labour Market (May 2005) [View PDF]
1.7
Inquiry into economic migration to the EU (Jun 2005) [View PDF]
1.8
The economic case for immigration. Migrationwatch dialogue with the Home Office (Jan 2006) [View PDF]
1.9
The fiscal contribution of migrants (Apr 2006) [View PDF]
1.10
The Fiscal Contribution of Migrants. (Aug 2006) [View PDF]
1.11
Selection criteria for immigrant workers (Aug 2006) [View PDF]
1.12
Economic contribution of A8 migrants (Oct 2006) [View PDF]
1.13
Minister admits that immigration is of little benefit to Britons (Nov 2006) [View PDF]
1.14
Seven Deadly Spins (Jan 2007) [View PDF]
1.15
The Impact of Immigration on GDP per head (Jan 2007) [View PDF]
1.16
The Impact of Immigration on GDP per head (Mar 2007) [View PDF]
1.19
MigrationWatch Commentary - ITEM Club Special Report: Migration and the UK economy (Jan 2008) [View PDF]


2. Education
2.1
The Impact of Asylum Seekers (Feb 2003) [View PDF]


3. Employment
3.1
A Points System for Work Permits? (Feb 2005) [View PDF]


4. European Union
4.1
The impact on immigration of the EU expansion to Eastern Europe (Jul 2003) [View PDF]
4.2
Draft EU constitution: Implications for asylum and immigration (Nov 2003) [View PDF]
4.3
Note on the rights of workers from accession countries in the EU from 1st May (May 2004) [View PDF]
4.4
The treaty establishing a constitution for Europe: Implications for asylum and immigration in the UK (Oct 2004) [View PDF]
4.5
Summary of The Common European Asylum System - with draft procedures directive. (Mar 2005) [View PDF]
4.6
Item club on 'Benefits' of East European immigration (May 2006) [View PDF]
4.7
Potential immigration from Romania and Bulgaria (May 2006) [View PDF]


5. Health
5.1
Health Consequences of Current Immigration Policy (Jun 2003) [View PDF]


6. History
no papers available

7. Housing
7.1
Housing Report - The impact of immigration on housing in the UK (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
7.2
The impact of immigration on England’s housing (Jul 2003) [View PDF]
7.3
MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper - Migration and Housing (Mar 2004) [View PDF]
7.4
Housing and immigration an update (Oct 2004) [View PDF]


8. Legal
8.1
Implications of the Government's appeal on asylum benefits 2003 (Feb 2003) [View PDF]
8.3
Asylum Laws: A Way Forward (Jul 2003) [View PDF]
8.5
Deleted
8.6
The Roma Case in the House of Lords (Jan 2005) [View PDF]
8.7
Asylum Law Reform (Jan 2005) [View PDF]
8.11
The distinction between asylum seekers and refugees (Jan 2006) [View PDF]
8.16
Legislation (Jun 2007) [View PDF]


9. Migration Trends
9.3
The Present and Future Scale of Immigration (Jul 2002) [View PDF]
9.4
Exceptional Leave to Remain (Apr 2003) [View PDF]
9.5
2003 Population Projections (Dec 2003) [View PDF]
9.6
Population Projections – Further Analysis (Mar 2004) [View PDF]
9.7
International migration in 2002 (May 2004) [View PDF]
9.8
Government Actuary’s Department 2003-based population projections (Oct 2004) [View PDF]
9.9
Bull Points on Report, Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain By Ruth Lupton & Anne Power (Dec 2004) [View PDF]


10. Cohesion, Marriage, Scotland and Other Papers
10.1
Response to the Home Affairs Committee Inquiry Into Asylum Applications (Apr 2003) [View PDF]
10.2
Balkan Asylum Seekers - Time for a new approach? by Professor James Pettifer (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
10.3
Migration into Scotland (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
10.4
Book Review: Human Visas, Human Rights Body Challenges Arranged Marriages (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
10.5
The full statement by Stephen Moxon, the Home Office whistle blower reported recently in the Sunday Times. (Feb 2004) [View PDF]
10.6
How skilled are immigrants to Britain? (Apr 2004) [View PDF]
10.9
Opinion Poll on asylum and inmmigration (Feb 2005) [View PDF]
10.11
Pressure on the UK visa system (Aug 2005) [View PDF]
10.13
Home Office consultation on managed migration routes Comments by MigrationwatchUK (Oct 2005) [View PDF]
10.17a
Survey about Public Perception of Immigration - Fieldwork Dates 5th - 8th January 2007 (Jan 2007) [View PDF]
10.17b
Survey about Public Perception of Immigration - Fieldwork Dates 16th - 18th January 2007 (Jan 2007) [View PDF]
10.18
YouGov survey poll - "Immigration" Fieldwork dates: 6TH - 8TH November 2007 (Nov 2007) [View PDF]
10.19
Overview of Dutch asylum and immigration system (Apr 2006) [View PDF]


11. Policy, Amnesty & Voting
11.1
Unmanaged Migration (May 2003) [View PDF]
11.2
A New Approach to Identity Cards (Oct 2003) [View PDF]
11.3
Asylum and Immigration: A programme of action (Nov 2003) [View PDF]
11.4
Asylum Amnesty; the decks are far from cleared (Oct 2003) [View PDF]
11.5
Immigration: A Comparison of Party Policies (May 2005) [View PDF]


12. Key Facts
no papers available

13. Achievements
13.1
Ten MigrationWatch achievements (May 2006) [View PDF]


14. Environment
no papers available