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Migration Watch UK and Lies, damned lies and the media
Source: www.immigrationwatch.info
Immigration: Facts or Misinformation?
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Headlines: 'More than two million immigrants will arrive in Britain'Orwellian Newspeak word: Clandestine(s)
Comment: "Now we have to tolerate a new right-wing organisation, Migrationwatch UK, which is suddenly being treated with undue respect."
Sangatte closure: "I read it almost every other day now in The Times . . . it borders on fascism."
Withdrawal of Asylum Support "These are certainly harsher measures than the Tories introduced in 1996"
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Facts
Through BBC online: "The Home Office says that Migration Watch UK's figures should be treated with - considerable caution" Others said "Little more than idle speculation" "Scaremongering" "Whether this is a double-counting of asylum seekers is not clear" "What this does is give the far right ammunition to propagate their own particular views" Plus "Leading article: A nasty little group playing an old, and unwelcome, trick" from the Independent NewspaperThe Joint Committee on Human Rights
"When the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill reached its Report Stage in the House of Lords, the Government sought to introduce a number of substantial amendments. . . The Committee has considered the amendments, and concludes that they give rise to potential incompatibilities with rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESC), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child."
Anti-immigrant racism gets academic veneer
Leftspeak/Rightspeak/Newspeak
". . . clearly anti-racists, left-wing and minority parties need to beware the wolf in sheep's clothing."
'Labour justifies harsh laws on such issues as asylum by stoking up our fears of fascism'
"The leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, acknowledged their help when he said: 'The asylum-seeker issue has been great for us. This issue legitimates us.' If Blairites believe they are responding to a future BNP threat, then they must acknowledge it is a threat they helped create. Orwell imagined a sedate English fascism which didn't actually call itself fascism. Today we are getting a touch too close to far-Right policies from a party which doesn't actually call itself far Right."
This asylum-seekers Bill is repugnant and pushes Britain morally out in the cold
"So let’s get one thing clear: these centres are not for accommodation; they are for detention. They will be a constant reminder that, in 2002, this country legislated in order to discriminate."
The unholy alliance against immigrants
"This scale of coercion, and the repressive political narrative that supports it, is a direct threat to an open society."
It's time to stand up for your liberalism
"In Europe, the Right is using immigration to suppress the Left. In Britain, it is New Labour that is leading the way "
Europe can defeat fascism
"All over Europe, in response to crime and growing immigrant populations, there is a re-emergence of a fatal DNA in the European values gene, a murky cocktail of racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, anti-immigration and calls for ultra-hardline criminal justice policies."
License to hate
"‘The most serious trend we have seen is a rise in reports of incidents when the issue of asylum seekers and refugees is brought into the public domain by reputable politicians making inflammatory statements.’"
Lies, damned lies and . . . statistics
Asylum: Can we trust the figures?
"only about 5% of those (refugees) who arrive in Britain each year are genuine" "More than two million immigrants will arrive in Britain"
Source: MigrationWatchUK Website"The 42% official "recognition rate" (for refugees who arrive in Britain) explodes the popular myth"
Migration Watch UK
'an independent, non political organization which monitors migration'?
"We believe that the prevailing misinformation and the failure to address the substance of these matters gives rise to rumour and suspicion which can only encourage the rise of the extreme right, to which we are strongly opposed"
Source: MigrationWatchUK Website
Bill Morris - General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers’ Union
"Placing asylum seekers on a parallel universe may satisfy the extremists in society but it will make a mockery of a tolerant Britain. It is hypocritical to tell immigrants to speak English and promote social inclusion on one hand, yet shut asylum seekers away from the language and culture of our society on the other."
David Blunkett MP - New Labour
We can only "defeat the right if we tackle the most obvious problems in our current system". Phoey. What the home secretary is doing is pre-empting the right by stealing its clothes. He will be ecstatic over the Times's front page headline: "Labour's new iron curtain for refugees". But agreeing to ride roughshod over fundamental human rights will only encourage the right to ask for more. "
Jack Straw - New Labour - Home Secretary - 27th July 1998
"In opposition, I said that, in a civilised society, genuine asylum seekers could not be left destitute, and I am honouring that commitment today"
Withdrawal of Asylum Support - New Labour Statement - 2nd December 2002
"Single people and childless couples will receive no support - no food, cash or accommodation - unless they claim asylum as soon as they arrive at a UK port"
Government (New Labour) policy to leave thousands homeless and hungry
"The Refugee Council believes these measures will result in a worse chaos than a similar decision made by the previous (Conservative) Government in 1996, which the 1999 legislation was partly designed to rectify. At that time, the Refugee Council, other agencies, and faith groups had to set up emergency soup kitchens and night shelters to deal with the number of people sleeping rough, and left destitute."
Nick Hardwick - Chief Executive - British Refugee Council - 2nd December 2002
"We are appalled by these new measures which will throw thousands of asylum seekers into destitution and add to the chaos in the asylum system. & There is no sound factual basis for discriminating against those who claim asylum once they are in the UK - in fact the Home Office's own figures show that currently around 65 per cent of positive decisions are given to in-country applicants"
Nick Hardwick - Chief Executive - British Refugee Council
"This represents a kick in the teeth to commitments made in the past. We already have by far the worst record across Europe for locking up asylum seekers - people who have not committed a crime."
Union leader denounces Blunkett's Bill on asylum seekers as 'apartheid'
Daily Mail prompted hate campaign
"A national newspaper has been warned it is responsible for a hate-mail campaign"
Related story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2327035.stmHome Office set to rewrite Geneva refugee agreement
U.K. Asylum Proposal Denounced
"The right to seek and enjoy asylum is an individual right. Governments cannot make a blanket decision to exclude refugees simply on the basis of their country of origin," said Reilly. "Such a proposal could result in returning refugees to countries where they could face persecution, torture, and even death-without serious consideration of their asylum claim."
New asylum law could result in miscarriage of justice
"These measures are highly undemocratic"
"Is the Home Office really suggesting war-ravaged Somalia, which has no recognised Government, is safe?” “We cannot understand how a Government that repealed the 1996 Conservative legislation that resulted in thousands left destitute, living on the streets and relying on soup kitchens and charity, can now reintroduce similar policies by the backdoor without consultation. " "A reintroduction of the ‘white list’ of purported ‘safe countries’ . . .constitutes a fundamental breach to the very core of the United Nations Refugee Convention"
A new iron curtain
"Which is better: a rightwing government drawing asylum procedures so tight they breach the Geneva convention; or a social democratic administration doing the same thing?
Asylum and Immigration
"hundreds of online resources relating to: asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, court cases. deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human trafficking, law, media, migration, policy and studies."
Asylum: Myths and Reality
Observer Online
Refugees in Britain
Guardian Online
The Road to Refuge
"the decade we live in has seen more of the world's people than ever before seeking refuge from war, persecution or disaster"
UN World Refugees report
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Links
An advanced internet search shows that the extreme right British National Party, as one of the first organisations to provide a hyper link to MigrationWatchUK.
For a larger image click here . . .
Note: The name Immigration Watch was filed for registration with the Patent Office in 1999