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From The Sunday Times
January 11, 2009


Cabinet minister admits
immigration ‘free for all’

Isabel Oakeshott
Deputy Political Editor

A CABINET minister has admitted the government has presided over an asylum and immigration “free for all” and warned that the recession could be a recipe for racial tension.

Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, said Labour had failed to manage the system effectively, allowing many people to enter the country under false pretences.

“Initially it was a kind of free for all,” she said. “We had a big surge of asylum seekers, a lot of people coming as economic migrants, but through the route of asylum seeking.”

It is the first time a minister has made a bald admission that Labour mismanaged immigration in its first two terms.

(migrationwatchuk.com)
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