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76% of the
British public favour an annual limit on immigration. |
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Net migration
into the UK has averaged 166,000 a year over the last 7 years. |
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The UK’s
population is projected to rise by 7.2 million from 2004 to
2031 – 6.0 million (83%) of this rise is due to immigration.[3] That’s equivalent to two cities the
size of Cambridge every year, or 6 cities the size of
Birmingham over the 27 year period, needing to be built
because of immigration. |
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65,000 new homes
will be required in England each year for the period 2003-26 for
immigrants. |
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In 2004 12.0
million non-EU nationals arrived in the UK[. How many left? No one knows – we have no
embarkation controls. |
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In Inner London 57%
of all births are to foreign-born mothers. |
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70% of net
international migration is to London. In recent years a
net 100,000 migrants a year have been arriving in London and
there has been a net movement of 100,000 existing residents
from London to the rest of the UK. |
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The cost of
running the Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home
Office rose from £300 million in 1998-1999 to 1.9 billion in
2003-4.[9] Legal aid costs of
£170m a year are additional. |
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England is one of the most
densely populated countries in the world. It has nearly twice
the population density of Germany, 4 times that of France and 12 times
that of the USA. |
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Since 1997 about 376,000 asylum
seekers have been refused permission to stay here but only
85,000 have been recorded as having been removed from the UK.
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And those with
families whose claims have failed continue to receive benefits
worth an average of £15,000 a year tax free. |
