85 percent of the French are in favor of tightening immigration law, according to a survey conducted by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV. Respondents want to bring back tougher punishment and expulsion of immigrants if they commit crimes.more
UK net migration rose to a record 606,000 last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Net migration is the difference between the number of people arriving in the UK, and the number leaving.more
David Cameron said critics of the government’s plan to send small boat migrants to Rwanda should stop the attacks unless they “have a better answer”.
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Foreign students coming to the UK from January next year will no longer be able to bring dependent family members to the UK, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced yesterday.more
Almost a third of children born in Spain come from a foreign-born father or mother, according to a report by the Demographic Observatory of the CEU San Pablo University, based on data from the national statistics institute (INE).more
The British government is offering at least some Albanian prisoners £1,500 and a reduced sentence in exchange for their deportation to their country of origin, the BBC revealed yesterday. It also reported that more than half of the illegal Albanian migrants sent back home are prisoners.more
Council of Europe member states must send a clear message that they will support Ukraine as long as necessary, but they must also learn from this war and prepare to confront other threats such as illegal immigration, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appealed in Reykjavik.more
On the eve of a summit of Council of Europe heads of state and government in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for concerted action to curb illegal immigration.more
Britain cannot be dependent on cheap foreign labor and there is no reason why Britons shouldn't be lorry drivers, fruit pickers or butchers, Home Secretary Suella Braverman argued yesterday. She stressed that it is not racist or xenophobic to want to control state borders or to call into question rapid and mass immigration.more
Thousands of Poles are fleeing the UK from the rising cost of living and returning to their country, whose economy is currently booming, reports The Sun.more
Britain needs immigration to rise “now and again,” a minister said on Monday in what appeared. Trade minister Nigel Huddleston stressed that there would “always be peaks and troughs” in levels of immigration, with figures next week expected to show a surge in arrivals to the UK.more
In 40 years, white British children will be a dwindling minority in British schools, as will white Brits in big cities, according to Paul Morland, a demographer at the University of Oxford, quoted by the Daily Telegraph.more
The British government wants to limit the ability of foreign students to bring in their family members, which is one of the causes of record immigration, the Financial Times reported. This is especially true of students from India and Nigeria.more
The government's illegal immigration bill is "morally unacceptable and politically impractical," Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told the House of Lords, adding that it was damaging Britain's reputation.more
President Biden's administration intends to change the immigration law from that in place during the Covid-19 pandemic to one referring to the earlier one. This is to curb undocumented border crossings and encourage legal efforts to come to the US.more
In Germany, the opposition CDU/CSU party is calling for increased border controls due to a rising wave of illegal migrants. The demand particularly concerns the German-Austrian border, the website of the daily Die Welt reported yesterday. The politicians also point out that the EU's external border should also be "adequately protected."more
Yesterday evening, the British House of Commons adopted a draft law on illegal immigration, the purpose of which is to stop the uncontrolled influx of immigrants through the English Channel. The act allowed for the rapid deportation of almost all newly arrived illegal immigrants.more
Migrants who come to the UK across the English Channel in small boats "possess values which are at odds with our country" with "heightened levels of criminality", Suella Braverman has said.more
Australia needs skilled migrants in key industries, reports the information service for the Victorian Polish community in Australia. According to the most recent Australian census in 2016, there are approximately 182,000 Australians living in Australia. people of Polish descent.more
Almost a quarter of people living in Germany have a migration background. That's 20.2 million people, or 24.3 percent. of the entire population, according to the Federal Statistical Office.more
