A selection of recent media reports
URGENT 'REVIEWS' AT OLD PEOPLE'S HOME
Southwark Council has instructed social workers to make urgent reviews of people it has placed at the old folks' home where four people were arrested by immigration...
Southwark News (11-Mar-2010)
Leicestershire police hunt for lorry stowaways
Organised criminal gangs which force illegal migrants to work in poor conditions for a few pounds a day could be operating in...
This is Leicestershire (11-Mar-2010)
America nears 'tipping point' where babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for first time
America is reaching a tipping point when the babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for the first time. More white women than ever before are postponing having children until they are older, while minority mothers are still having babies at younger ages, according to a US study published...
Daily Mail (11-Mar-2010)
Frosty Welcome For UK Electronic Borders Plan
Government claims over the roll-out of its new electronic border controls are 'not credible', according to opposition parties and some travel...
97.4rockfm (11-Mar-2010)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT LANDED A JOB IN LORDS
AN illegal immigrant worked in the Houses of Parliament for six months without any security checks, a court was told...
Daily Express (11-Mar-2010)
Gold Service traffickers exposed by The Sun
TODAY The Sun exposes a gang that offers illegal immigrants door-to-door delivery into Britain in a scam which they call the Gold...
Online Sun (10-Mar-2010)
Illegal immigrant worked at House of Lords for six months after using fake passport to get kitchen job
An illegal immigrant worked for six months serving lunch at House of Lords after using a fake passport to get the job, a court heard today. Nigerian Modupeola Fatoyinbo, 41, was employed as a casual catering assistant in the Palace of...
Daily Mail (10-Mar-2010)
Fewer asylum seekers to Norway
In February this year 711 asylum seekers arrived in Norway.
The Norway Post (10-Mar-2010)
Brown meets MP over flats deaths
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet an MP to hear how a community coped following the apparent suicide of three asylum seekers. The bodies of the mother, father and son were found at the bottom of a 31-storey block in Petershill Drive in the Springburn area of the city on...
Press Association (10-Mar-2010)
WILLIAM HAGUE: LABOUR HAVE BLED US DRY
THE Shadow Foreign Secretary speaks to Daily Express readers about Gordon Brown s appalling regime and how the Tories plan to rebuild our broken...
Daily Express (10-Mar-2010)
Lumley named in row over Gurkha charity
Minister attacks campaigner's 'silence' as inquiry is launched into donations solicited in...
The Independent (10-Mar-2010)
Team in war on night crime
WAR has been declared on Newham's night-time crime economy. Police, the council and immigration oficers are working together. The team's first operation raided nine chicken shops and arrested nine people for immigration...
Newham Recorder (09-Mar-2010)
Homes help for asylum seekers
AN Oldham vicar is helping to lead a campaign to improve housing conditions for asylum seekers in the North-West. Reverend John Simmons, of Christ Church in Block Lane, Chadderton, is also one of the leaders of the Greater Manchester Citizens for Sanctuary group, made up of faith, voluntary and...
Oldham Evening Chronicle (09-Mar-2010)
The battle for a Yorkshire marginal
As the Conservative candidate in a marginal seat, I see that while BNP support is a threat, the Labour vote has...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (09-Mar-2010)
Bates Wells hip hop lawyer wins Snoop Dogg immigration battle
Bates Wells & Braithwaite has paved the way for US rapper Snoop Dogg to enter the UK after a long-running battle with UK immigration.
The Lawyer.com (09-Mar-2010)
Social Care: Foreign and destitute
Around 20,000 asylum-seeking families are living in destitution in the UK. Nancy Rowntree asks whether the system needs reform. Asylum seekers. Image: Arlen Connelly Aicha was forced into prostitution after her claim for asylum was rejected by the UK authorities and her financial support was...
cypnow (09-Mar-2010)
Boarding Schools Association: 'still has concerns' over Tier 4 system
Despite a relatively smooth rollout of the new Tier 4 system for the immigration of international (non-EEA) students, the Boarding Schools Association (BSA) has expressed concerns over its future...
Politics.co.uk (09-Mar-2010)
Councils attacked for giving too much information on asylum-seeking children to UKBA
Local authorities have been accused of supplying more information on asylum-seeking children than they should to the UK Border's Agency (UKBA), which is allegedly using the information to make decisions on...
Community Care (09-Mar-2010)
Figures that reveal the cost of life for those with no hiding place
Asylum is protection given by a country to someone who is fleeing persecution in their own country. It is given under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of...
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
Asylum is a complex and emotive issue that will never satisfy everyone
If we can be sure of anything, it is that the mysterious and harrowing tale of the Russian family who jumped from a Glasgow tower block was not the typical story of failed asylum-seekers.
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)