A selection of recent media reports

Don't panic! Now ministers hire filing clerks to guard borders... after doing just three months' training in three days ..
Hundreds of clerical staff are being drafted in to solve the crisis at airport immigration.
Mail On Line (20-May-2012)
Stansted immigration fraudster jailed
The 33-year-old, who gave her name as Oluwaytin Oshodi, pleaded guilty to eight charges at Woolwich Crown Court - seve
ITV.com (20-May-2012)
Human Smuggling Gang Exposed By The People
A HUMAN smuggling gang that has sneaked hundreds of criminals and illegal \u00ADimmigrants through UK \u00ADborder contr...
People.co.uk (20-May-2012)
'KEEP DEATH QUIZ RUSSIANS OUT'
SIXTY Russians connected to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky should be banned from entering Britain, Home Secretary ...
Express.co.uk (20-May-2012)
Child asylum seekers 'still being imprisoned' by immigration service
A report by the Refugee Council to be published this week accuses the immigration
Guardian.co.uk (20-May-2012)
Roma abuse: Calls for inquiry as Oxfam report uncovers discriminatory treatment
PUBLIC officials have been accused of 'institutional racism' in a hard-hitt
Scotsman.com (20-May-2012)
Analysis: Reality is bleak for immigrant families
OXFAM is best known for fighting poverty overseas but we do it right here in Scotland too. We began working with Roma
Scotland on Sunday (20-May-2012)
Terror suspect Abu Qatada could be released on bail AGAIN within days
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could be freed on bail by the end of the month. Qatada, d
Mail Online (19-May-2012)
Inside Abu Qatada's luxurious prison in Jordan
An exclusive look at the jail in Jordan where the radical cleric Abu Qatada could end up poses disturbing questions ab
Telegraph.co.uk (19-May-2012)
Abu Qatada given bail hearing date
Abu Qatada is fighting deportation to Jordan
Halesowen News (19-May-2012)
You'll get a shock if you revive Heathrow third runway, Boris Johnson warns PM
Boris Johnson today warned the Government not to support the expansion of Heathrow Air
London Evening Standard (17-May-2012)
Welcome foreign students or forfeit billions of pounds, Britain warned
Britain risks losing billions of pounds generated by foreign students because immi
London Evening Standard (17-May-2012)
Government database flooded with tip-offs over illegal immigrants
A new government database is being flooded with thousands of complaints about illegal
Telegraph.co.uk (17-May-2012)
Britain 'forced to leave EU if Scotland separates'
Scottish independence could see the UK kicked out of the European Union and forced to surrender its £3 billi
Telegraph.co.uk (17-May-2012)
Illegal immigrant jailed for 12 months asks to be deported
ILLEGAL immigrant Isa Teryaki faces being deported after using a false Lithuanian passport to try to get
This is Staffordshire (16-May-2012)
One tip-off every six minutes to the illegal immigrants database
A giant new Government database is being flooded with tip-offs from the public about illegal immi
Mail Online (16-May-2012)
Home Office-approved adviser who made £1million through helping immigrants stay in the UK jailed for 10 years
A Home Office-approved adviser and his wife who made
The Mail On Sunday (16-May-2012)
Please deport me, there's no work in Britain, illegal immigrant begs judge
An illegal immigrant asked a judge to deport him on the grounds that finding work in Brita
Telegraph.co.uk (16-May-2012)
Hundreds of Olympic athletes will have to use Stansted because Heathrow cannot cope with Games rush
Hundreds of Olympic athletes and coaches will be force
London Evening Standard (16-May-2012)
Bid to hear passengers' border queue views blocked
Ministers are blocking plans to publish passengers' views on nightmare border queues and other delays, the Sta
London Evening Standard (16-May-2012)

Briefing Papers published in 2009



1. Economic
1.22
The Impact of Immigration on low paid British workers (Mar 2009) [View PDF]
1.23
The Invisible Cost of Immigration (May 2009) [View PDF]


2. Education
2.3
Students and the Points Based System (Dec 2009) [View PDF]


3. Employment
3.8
The Points Based System: Dispelling the Myths (Jul 2009) [View PDF] (Previously 11.14)
3.9
The Points Based System
Why it will not stop our population hitting 70 million
(Nov 2009) [View PDF]


4. European Union
4.9
Economic Migration within the EU (Feb 2009) [View PDF]
4.11
A Survey of European Asylum Policy and Legislation (May 2009) [View PDF]
4.12
European Policy and Legislation on Immigration (May 2009) [View PDF]


5. Health
5.7
NHS Treatment for Failed Asylum Seekers (Apr 2009) [View PDF]
5.8
Over Half a Million Newly Arrived Foreign Migrants
Registered with GPs Last Year
(Dec 2009) [View PDF]


6. History
no papers available

7. Housing
7.11
Sir Andrew Green's Presentation to the National Housing Federation on 23 September, 2009 (Sep 2009) [View PDF]


8. Legal
8.32
Asylum Seekers – A Serious Case of Misunderstanding (Jan 2009) [View PDF]
8.33
Legislative Developments (Jan 2009) [View PDF]
8.34
Freedom of Movement in the EU: The Metock Case (Feb 2009) [View PDF]
8.35
Reform of the Immigration Appeals System (Aug 2009) [View PDF]
8.37
Asylum - The Supreme Court Allows Repetitious Appeals (Dec 2009) [View PDF]


9. Migration Trends
9.21
Population out of control (Jan 2009) [View PDF]
9.22
How did immigration get out of control? (Mar 2009) [View PDF]
9.23
The Impact of World Population Trends on UK Immigration [1] (Aug 2009) [View PDF]
9.24
How Immigration Affects the Size of Our Population (Sep 2009) [View PDF]
9.25
70 MILLION : MYTH OR NOT? (Nov 2009) [View PDF]
9.26
Immigration Figures Due for Release 26 November 2009
Background Briefing
(Nov 2009) [View PDF]


10. Cohesion, Marriage, Scotland and Other Papers
no papers available

11. Policy, Amnesty & Voting
11.12
Immigration and the EU elections (May 2009) [View PDF]
11.13
Neither Labour nor Conservatives will stop the population hitting 70m (Jul 2009) [View PDF]
11.15
The Potential Lifetime Costs of an Amnesty (Apr 2009) [View PDF]
11.16
Illegal Immigration From Pakistan (Jun 2009) [View PDF]
11.17
An Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants?
Migrationwatch Response to the GLA Paper
(Nov 2009) [View PDF]
11.18
Did Labour conceal a change in immigration policy? (Nov 2009) [View PDF]


12. Key Facts
no papers available

13. Achievements
13.7
A List of Migrationwatch Research Documents Published in 2009 (Dec 2009)


14. Environment
no papers available

15. Opinion Polls
no papers available