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High net immigration figures will be built up into a frenzy in the next weeks. A couple things to remember:
- the rise is driven by people on visas, not asylum seekers, who remain a tiny proportion
- the immigrants are people who bring huge positives to our communities #r4today
- the rise is driven by people on visas, not asylum seekers, who remain a tiny proportion
- the immigrants are people who bring huge positives to our communities #r4today
- The immigrants being from India & china “instead” of the EU is a neutral.
The only thing that matters is what rights they have on their visas
- More people’s visas now are short-term & highly restrictive, that do not have a pathway to settlement.
That’s not positive #r4today
The only thing that matters is what rights they have on their visas
- More people’s visas now are short-term & highly restrictive, that do not have a pathway to settlement.
That’s not positive #r4today
- Research from @Praxis_Projects has shown how these visa restrictions force many migrants into poverty: in the cost of living crisis, migrants in low income families have ‘no recourse to public funds’ so they can’t access any of the support keeping others going. #r4today
- Research from the GLA & LSE about 18 months ago demonstrated how barring migrants from accessing mainstream social support in this way, not only pushes people into debt & poverty, but ends up costing the taxpayer far more in emergency responses in local authorities #r4today
- My research strongly suggests it is the short-term visas that have proliferated, that are extremely expensive & complicated to extend & renew, that are the key factor forcing people out of the system, living here without authorisation & subject to a hostile environment #r4today
Finally, this insane scaremongering report on US border policy is a deliberate backdrop to our twisted conversation here in the UK
US experts have long warned the extended COVID restrictions on mobility was building up a human catastrophe & draconian response won’t work #r4today
US experts have long warned the extended COVID restrictions on mobility was building up a human catastrophe & draconian response won’t work #r4today
For goodness sake. Of course there’s a record numbers in the border backlog in the US: the government extended an artificial restriction on crossings for 4 years. When you block people at a border point, they build up. This isn’t rocket science but the framing is absurd #r4today
On high net immigration, credible analysts like @jdportes & @M_Sumption @MigObs will be blessing us with worthwhile takes on the ONS migration stats when they come, taking the heat out of the issue by dealing in facts.
Go to them before believing hysterical headlines pls #r4today
Go to them before believing hysterical headlines pls #r4today
Anyway, a lot of you have started following me from refugee stuff in the last year. Hi🥰
I want to emphasise, though, that my interest extends to the rights of *all* migrants, & we'll never have a decent, humane border system till we recognise the humanity of all people who move
I want to emphasise, though, that my interest extends to the rights of *all* migrants, & we'll never have a decent, humane border system till we recognise the humanity of all people who move
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