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Former Immigration Minister Phil Woolas campaign ‘to make white folk angry’

The BBC reports that the former immigration minister Phil Woolas set out to “make the white folk angry” in his election campaign, a specially convened court heard.

Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 12 September 2010

Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 12 September 2010
http://www.immigrationmatters.co.uk/category/news

London Mayor Boris Johnson demands immigration cap is scrapped

Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson has broken party ranks over immigration, warning that plans to limit the number of migrants to Britain will damage the economy.

London still booming

Migrants and students have a better chance of finding work around London, which is teaming with hotels, shops, bars and restaurants, and more tourist attractions than almost anywhere on earth. London is also a magnet for an estimated half a million overstayers and illegal immigrants, which is why Mayor Boris Johnson favours an amnesty for illegal immigrants against his own party line. See London Mayor Boris Johnson favours amnesty for illegal immigrants

There is a Business Case for Amnesty

By Gene Alcantara
 
25 November 2008
 
 
Mayor Boris Johnson has opened up a long-overdue but vital debate on illegal immigrants. Those lambasting the London Mayor are going on about irresponsibility and naivety but seem to be missing an important point: that there is in fact a business case for the regularisation of illegal immigrants.
 
The Government [...]

London Mayor Boris Johnson looking at amnesty for illegal immigrants

The Mayor of London is to commission a study to examine the viability of an amnesty for illegal immigrants in the capital.
 
Boris Johnson said that deporting thousands of people working illegally in the UK was “just not going to happen”.
 
He told Channel 4 News that allowing long-term illegal immigrants to earn the right [...]