OBSERVATOIRE DE L'ISLAMISATION DE LA FRANCE ET DE L'EUROPE (O.I.F.E.)

March 9, 2009

Migrant Stock has Doubled Since 1991 - Immigration Problem ‘Home Grown’ - not a Result of Globalisation

CONTRAIREMENT A CE QUE PENSENT LES "OBSEDES" DE LA "GLOBALISATION" (à l'extrême gauche -comme à l'extrême droite), LES PROBLEMES D'IMMIGRATION NE SONT PAS DUS A LA GLOBALISATION !

The cause of the highest levels of immigration the UK has ever seen is not, as the government claims, global population movement but rather a series of failures of Government policies, says a new report out today from think tank Migrationwatch –

“How did immigration get out of control?”

Now that immigration regularly features high on the list of public concerns the Government have tried to promote the view that world trends have been responsible for a trebling of net foreign immigration since 1997.

However, the report demonstrates that this is simply a ‘smokescreen’ to disguise the way in which UK immigration and asylum policy has been mismanaged for a decade.

‘The government seems to make a habit of blaming current ills on ‘global forces’ but our analysis shows that this problem is almost entirely ‘home grown’.

It could, and should, have been more competently managed, so preventing the rising tide of resentment among the public,’ said Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch.

The report shows that the percentage of the world population who are international migrants increased somewhat- from 2.5% in 1960 to 3.0 percent in 2005.
The pattern in Britain has been quite different. The percentage of migrants in the UK – that is persons born outside the country - increased by only just over 1% in the first 30 years - from 4.5% in 1961 to 5.8 % in 1991.
It then accelerated, doubling to 11% in 2008….... ‘Many people are at a loss to know how all this was allowed to happen’, said Sir Andrew.

‘The true story is that the government has held public opinion in contempt for years.

Despite having dismantled border controls, they deliberately encouraged immigration, partly to make the economic growth figures look better.

The fact that the extra population cancelled out any real benefit to the resident population was repeatedly denied until exposed by a major investigation last April by the highly authoritative Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords,’ said Sir Andrew.

‘We now face a massive increase in population just as our economy is struggling.

Some apologies from the government would be in order.’

(migrationwatch.uk)
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