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| Britain Should Be Worried About Illegal Immigrants |
| The UK is home to around 430,000 illegal immigrants, and possibly up to 570,000, according to a new government estimate published today.
The Home Office issued figures estimating the size of the unauthorised migrant population for the first time, putting the figure at between 310,000 and 570,000.
The figure does not include asylum seekers whose applications are being processed, or who are appealing against a refusal - a group put at between 716,000 and 772,000.
Your votes and comments please.... |
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Britains should be worried that politicians have steered us on a course that has allowed this to
become the issue it has.;-)) |
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Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-494441/Illegal-immigrant-demands-flown-home-Britons-rude-unf
riendly.html
These people are just taking advantage of our system and ripping our govt and taxpayers off. And one
has the nerve to call us rude and unfriendly? Now why would we be impolite to such law-abiding
citizens as these? |
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Yes we should for so many reasons. None of them in any way xenophobic or racist. That accusation
should never be made against someone who feels that this is a massively important issue and needs to
be discussed.
Under this government we have completely lost control of our borders. Whether it be illegal
immigrants, asylum seekers (genuine and fake), economic migrants from eastern Europe, or other
family members/ arranged marriages (from Asia in particular).
We have had the lines fed by MacKenzie in the opposite column purely because it was easier for this
government to fool the population than to actually fix the problem. Pure spin from Labour as usual.
Anyone who dared raise the subject was shouted down as a racist. A clear case of killing the
arguer not the argument.
The UK is full. If these words are also used by the BNP I am sorry, it doesn't make it untrue,
(please let us not fall into the trap of fearing saying these words and leaving a vacuum for the BNP
to fill, it is the only way they will ever get any real power). The infrastructure simply cannot
handle the rise in population.
There are a 101 problems that arise with such a dramatic rise in population when it is by
immigration alone. I am not saying immigration is bad. I am not saying "jonny foreigner" is bad.
The problems arrive because of the huge extra pressure on schools, hospitals, the roads, rocketing
house prices, the list goes on.
One day the world will live as one. That is my hope. But that has to happen gradually and not
forced together so quickly. I fear a terrible backlash, and worry that racially motivated attacks
will increase if this goes unchecked. There are so many different isolated communities some
bringing the war from their homeland to our soils.
The racist BNP and Crazed Imans sense this unease and look to provoke it to their own ends and they
are getting support, the same is happening in France and Holland.
This is not a healthy situation, I hope I am wrong but I fear it benefits no one in the long run. |
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Yes, But from where?? |
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Britain, as well as other countries around the world should be concerned with illegal immigrants
coming into their countries. They should be concerned about helping these illegal immigrants. Think
about it. People come to another country in search of a better life for themselves and their family.
They are not coming to another country to cause harm or damage to anyone. All they want to do is
work and provide for their families and there is nothing wrong with that. Therefore, I think that
Britain and other countries need to be concerned mostly about helping these people and stop trying
to get rid of them. |
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Of course they should. A nation, any nation, has a right to determine who they allow to live in
their country and set their own standards for entry. It doesn't really matter if they cause
problems or not, the simple fact remains that they are violating the most basic laws of the country
in question and therefore, have no business being there to begin with. |
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Britain is one of the most overpopulated countries in the world. The fundamental reason that
property prices are so ridiculously high here is that there are too many people in too little space.
I support the free movement provisions of the European Union but immigrants from outside the EU
should come here legally or not at all.
The illegal immigrants must also be finding work of some sort or they wouldn't be coming here; in
most cases the pay for this work is shamefully low. This drives down the wages of ordinary British
workers who are forced to compete with illegal immigrants. And don't give me the line about jobs
that no one wants to do. Someone would always want to do them if the pay was high enough. |
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I believe that the influx of illegal immigrants into Britain is a worry. There was a time when the
legal influx of migrants from overseas was, arguably, needed (during the 1950s and 1960s, for
example), when the migrants took many of the jobs which needed to be taken.
However, now in 2008, illegal immigrants are, thought it may seem inhumane to say so, causing
several problems: Population problems, increased poverty, Government funding using the public
taxpayers' money, increased costs (educational costs, for example), and also, arguably, an increased
risk of terrorism, to some extent at least, and more. |
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 jsh4  15 Feb 2008 19:04
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Britain has benefited economically from the arrival of foreign labour, especially in light of an
aging population. With the entry of Eastern European countries into the EU in 2004--most notably
Poland--the shortage of skilled workers and employees in Britain's booming hospitality industry has
been remedied.
I would generally oppose the introduction of draconian measures against illegal immigrants. Although
it may be wise to make entry into the UK more difficult by beefing up border controls, those who
have already entered should be given amnesty, as long as they have not engaged in any criminal
activity.
As for inflated housing prices--these are expected to fall, with or without the arrival of more
immigrants or migrant workers. UK housing prices rose over the past 10 years at a higher rate than
in any other western country, because Britons felt that investing in property would yield higher
dividends and not as a result of an increase in the country's population. |
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