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Migration
Watch UK et al
Source:
and latest info:
http://www.immigrationwatch.info
Immigration: Facts or Misinformation?
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damned lies and . . . | misinformation
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Headlines: 'More than two million immigrants
will arrive in Britain'
Orwellian
Newspeak word: Clandestine(s)
 :
http://www.clandestines.info/
Comment:
"Now we have to tolerate a new right-wing organisation,
Migrationwatch UK, which is suddenly being treated with undue
respect."
:
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=357634
Sangatte
closure: "I read it almost every other day now in
The Times . . . it borders on fascism."
:
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/
. . .
Withdrawal
of Asylum Support "These are certainly harsher measures
than the Tories introduced in 1996"
:
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/dec2002/relea094.htm
More details . . .
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
Newspaper
The
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."
:
http://www.asylumsupport.info/humanrights.htm
Anti-immigrant
racism gets academic veneer
:
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org.immigratonwatch.info
Leftspeak/Rightspeak/Newspeak
".
. . clearly anti-racists, left-wing and minority parties need
to beware the wolf in sheep's clothing."
:
http://www.carf.demon.co.uk/feat04.html
'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."
:
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/
. . .
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."
:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/
. . .
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."
:
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/
. . .
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 "
:
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/
. . .
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."
:
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/
. . .
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.’"
:
http://www.carf.demon.co.uk/feat52.html
Lies,
damned lies and . . . statistics
Asylum:
Can we trust the figures?
:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2468311.stm
"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"
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees
. . .
Misinformation
. . .
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."
:
http://www.asylumsupport.info/publications/tgwu/unworkable.htm
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. "
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders.
. .
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"
:
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/
. . .
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"
:
http://www.asylumsupport.info/law/restrictions.htm
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."
:
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/dec2002/relea094.htm
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"
:
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/dec2002/relea094.htm
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."
:
http://www.asylumsupport.info/akickintheteeth.htm
Union
leader denounces Blunkett's Bill on asylum seekers as 'apartheid'
:
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=339667
Daily
Mail prompted hate campaign
"A
national newspaper has been warned it is responsible for a
hate-mail campaign"
:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2320361.stm
Related
story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2327035.stm
Home
Office set to rewrite Geneva refugee agreement
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/
. . .
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."
:
http://www.asylumsupport.info/publications/hrw/denounced.htm
New
asylum law could result in miscarriage of justice
:
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/oct2002/relea086.htm
"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"
:
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/oct2002/relea087.htm
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?
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders.
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Resources
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."
:
http://www.asylumsupport.info
Asylum:
Myths and Reality
Observer Online
:
http://www.observer.co.uk/asylum
. . .
Refugees in Britain
Guardian Online
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees
. . . .
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"
:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/in_depth
. . . .
UN
World Refugees report
:
http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/sowr2000/sowr2000toc.htm
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.
Note: The name
Immigration Watch was filed for registration with the Patent
Office in 1999
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