MIGRATION WATCH UK

The past week has seen yet another avalanche of reports on the multiple ways mass, uncontrolled and unplanned immigration – legal and illegal – continues and impacts our lives and reduces the quality of life.

The illegal boat crossings go on streaming across the Channel whenever the weather says, “yes.” Asylum applications last year were at record levels, the resulting cost of tackling illegal migration and the asylum system runs into billions of pounds every year. Meanwhile, lower-skill, lower-paid legal immigration has been costing the taxpayer astronomical amounts for more than 25 years. Throughout this period, the burgeoning population has driven what has become unbearable pressure on housing, the NHS, GP surgeries, schools and utilities, as well as increasing the congestion we all have to put up with in our daily lives.

We have written in recent weeks a lot about the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill now going through Parliament. The Bill is primarily aimed at illegal Channel crossings. Unfortunately, the eventual Act that makes it onto the statute book is going to be about as useful as a bikini in the North Pole in January. It is so futile that, as our Chairman told ministers and backbenchers on the Bill Committee a couple of weeks ago, it is much more likely to encourage illegal migrants and smugglers than deter them. What’s to stop anyone arriving illegally or overstaying their leave and claiming asylum, knowing that with a suitable, often uncheckable, back-story, the ECHR will provide the key to Britain’s door.

The government have said there is no question of leaving the ECHR, although, there were hints last weekend that Number 10 may be looking at the way parts of the Convention are implemented. For example, in respect of articles 3 and 8, which cover, among other things, the right not to be subjected to torture and the right to family life. It may be a tad cynical but we can’t help thinking that this sort of indirect word from the government about its intentions rarely leads to anything useful. The message we take from such stories is that thought is being given to whether something can be done. Here is a good, clear explanation from Stephen Webb of Policy Exchange in a discussion with the no-nonsense Nana Akua on GBNews.

Now, what about legal migration, many times greater than the numbers crossing the Channel and those claiming asylum? From the outset, when Lord Andrew Green and David Coleman, Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford, founded Migration Watch, we have warned of the risks, costs and wider implications of mass, uncontrolled immigration.

David Cameron’s government heeded our warnings 15 years ago and actually succeeded in reducing net migration from 255,000 in the year to September 2010 to 163,000 for the whole of 2012. Had it not been for free movement, net migration could well have come down close to 100,000; the tens of thousands goal. Compare this with where we are today.

Net migration close to three quarters of a million and Sir Keir Starmer’s government being advised by the ONS (who are no doubt being guided by others) that net migration will fall to 340,000 a year from 2029. This is wishful thinking, if not fantasy. It will only fall, even to what would still be more than double what it was in 2012, if the government are prepared to bring in the measures needed to do it and there is no sign of this happening.

We estimate that net migration is more likely to settle above half a million or more. With annual net migration of 600,000, the population increase between 2021 and 2051 would be nearly 20 million people (equivalent to about 18 cities the size ofBirmingham). The increase will be entirely due to migrants and their children if the total fertility rate (TFR) remains at current levels.

All this means is that the day when the “white British” become a minority in the country of their forebears will come that much sooner. We make no apology for repeating this point. It is not something that the British people have been asked about, nor have they given their consent to it.

Such rapid population growth not only has an economic impact but also heralds serious social consequences and implications for the future stability, cohesion and nature of our society. Meanwhile, we are importing divisions, conflicts and questionable practices from countries that do things very differently.

This is a very good article by Tom Jones in which he explains how the clannish behaviour in some South Asian countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh and African countries such as Somalia, impacts on elections in constituencies where particular ethnicities and groups predominate. As an addendum to his article, Tom refers to ‘Respect’, the party set up by George Galloway some 20 years ago. He writes: “Although not relevant, it is worth noting that in 2005 George Galloway campaigned to become Bethnal Green & Bow MP by visiting Sylhet [Bangladesh] in order to appeal to voters in Tower Hamlets; ‘Since his visit, voters in Bethnal Green have been receiving phone calls from their relatives in Bangladesh telling them to cast their votes for Galloway’.

So, the border is wide open, the asylum system is abused and costing taxpayers a fortune, while legal migration is out of control and driving unprecedented population increase and change. Our government’s reaction is to pretend to go after the gangs behind illegal boat crossings. With regard to legal migration, Sir Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, our Home Secretary, are still scratching their heads. The house is in flames and the fire chief is standing, hose in hand, by an empty fire engine.

SOURCE: Migration Watch UK Newsletter 

Mass migration and anti-white discrimination has broken British patriotism

How can we feel as if we’re all in it together when we plainly aren’t?

NEIL O’BRIEN

There are many reasons to feel pessimistic about Britain under Keir Starmer. A stagnating economy. An ageing society which talented young people want to leave. Large numbers of people invading the country illegally via small boats: and the government hiring yet more hotels to accommodate them.

But maybe the most concerning thing of all is the fraying of any sense of national identity.

That expresses itself in many ways.

Half of Generation Z think that Britain is a racist country and only 11 per cent would risk their lives to defend it in a war. Only 41 per cent of young people today were proud to be British, and just 15 per cent believed the country was united.

This is depressing but unsurprising.

On the one hand, Britain has been through breakneck demographic change. We ended up in a situation where around one in every fifty people had arrived in the country in the last two years. The so-called “Boriswave” of hugely increased immigration in recent years has profoundly changed the nation.

Not everyone can see revolution, because the effects are unevenly spread. In 2000 I moved to London from Huddersfield and rented a house. Today young British people struggle to do that given soaring rents, and even if they do, they find themselves in a small minority. In London as of 2017, immigrant households accounted for nearly two thirds of all households in the private rented sector and the proportion of social housing occupied by immigrant households is close to 50 per cent, up from 40 per cent ten years before. This implies that the majority of new allocations over that period went to immigrant households. The proportions are much higher in many areas of the city.

Mass migration inevitably frays the sense of national identity, and the effects are more pronounced among younger people. Just under a quarter of primary school pupils don’t have English as their first language.

Good schools try to create esprit de corps between children from many different backgrounds. That is hard enough anyway: schools now have to manage complex sensitivities over holidays and timings; over food; over what can be taught; and of course, over religious observance during the day.

Given these difficulties, you might think we would be working hard to build a strong sense of national identity to bring us all together.

But instead, young people are fed a relentless diet of demoralising anti-British propaganda. Every major cultural institution seems to spend taxpayers’ money looking for new ways to claim that every aspect of our history and culture is racist and shameful.

This week was the turn of Shakespeare: his birthplace is being “decolonised” by the trust that owns it, because of its concerns about the playwright being used to promote “white supremacy”.

But there is a story like that every week. Endless universities, museums, galleries and schools have similar madness going on.

Moves are afoot to “decolonise” everything from folk music to hiking, and from Maths to Mozart.

But as with individuals, self-hatred is not healthy at the nation level.

Why would you want to fight for something you have been told is appalling your whole life?

Even if you did, the same self-hating ideology would try and get in your way. The Royal Air Force unlawfully discriminated against white men in a recruitment drive aimed at boosting diversity. Even with our armed forces desperately below strength people were being pushed away for the crime of being white.

It’s similar in the other services: the Army “Race Action Plan” even proposed to relax security checks for recruits as part of a diversity drive.

Many of Britain’s top institutions discriminate against the white British. The BBC advertised jobs and said they were for BAME people only.

The Bank of England has internships only open to people from a black background – the “Black Future Leaders Sponsorship Programme.” There are similar schemes at KPMG, Nat West and Transport for London. There are racially exclusive scholarships at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, Bristol and many more.

The Labour-run Westminster Council wants to recruit from what it calls the “global majority”. It has an explicit policy that whenever there are two similar applicants for a job it will always go to the applicant from the “global majority” background. Labour’s mis-named “Equality Act” of 2010 allows this.

The cultural cringe is so embedded in our institutions it over-rides common sense. The Metropolitan Police recently shut down their gangs database (GVM) because of concerns that black people were disproportionately represented on it.

And in just over a week Starmer’s government is about to introduce rules from the Sentencing Council which make such two-tier justice the law of the land: you will be treated differently and given options that make it less likely that you will go to jail if you are not white.

Pitiful Starmer says he doesn’t agree, but claims he has no choice but to go along with it.

Why don’t young people want to fight for Britain? Well, even if you do have roots here, why would you fight for a country that legally regards you as a second-class citizen?

If there is a ray of hope anywhere it is that the conversation is changing. Kemi Badenoch recently said that as well as capping immigration, we need to start regarding the country as “our home, not a hotel”. She is so right. The public are desperate for a change. Not just an end to mass immigration, but the end of self-hatred and the end of anti-white racism from our institutions.

We need to stop treating people like replaceable economic units and recover our national identity, national pride, and a sense that we are all in it together.

The Telegraph: continue reading

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Islam is Destroying Western Culture Here And Abroad

ROBIN M. ITZLER

If you wish to experience Europe with all its unique nations, hurry because the entire continent is rapidly changing due to (legal and illegal) unchecked Islamic immigration, demographic shifts, and political pandering. Even with no future immigration, Muslims in Europe will increase their population. They are giving birth at a much higher rate than non-Muslims: 2.6 children compared to 1.6 children. It doesn’t take a mathematician to see where this goes.

In 2006, Muammar Gaddafi said:

We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

Most European leadership is blind to what is happening—or doesn’t care.

If you visit Europe, be sure you know where you are walking. The Migration Research Institute in Budapest, which is affiliated with the renowned Matthias Corvinus College, estimated in 2024 that there are 900 NO-GO ZONES across Europe. This is the result of Europe’s open-border policies that brought in an influx of Muslims who do not wish to assimilate into their adopted homeland. Instead, they want their adopted homeland to become an Islamic “Sharia paradise.”

German playwright Botho Strauss wasn’t afraid to say what many have been thinking:

In the course of the demographic change due to the majority of Muslim population in the metropolises expected in the near future, other priorities could emerge with respect to tolerance and diversity. How ridiculous and senseless then it is to continue with the tired and saccharine tones of ‘tolerance’ towards a class of people who in our cities are rising to the majority.

Throughout Europe, if you say anything about what is happening to your country or continent due to the influx of legal or illegal radicalized Muslim immigrants, you’re quickly called Islamophobic—and possibly arrested. For example, Member of Parliament Paul Scully was verbally attacked in February for appearing on BBC Radio London, where he responded to another MP by saying:

There are areas where there are a tiny minority of people who make people uncomfortable about not being of their religion, of their culture, who are misinterpreting their own doctrine. That’s not to say Tower Hamlets itself is a no-go area.

Scully was quickly criticized for even implying that London has any no-go areas. The BBC quoted a source close to London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan:

Unfortunately, Paul Scully is resorting to a notorious Islamophobic trope – with the highly offensive and untrue claim that there are ‘no-go’ areas for non-Muslims in parts of London.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls anti-immigrant sentiment “far right” as if it’s a bad thing to want to protect your homeland from an Islamic invasion. Just ask the people in Wethersfield, England, who will only whisper the truth about what asylum seekers are doing to their once quaint village.

But what about America? Well, it’s here, too.

Paterson, New Jersey, once a solid blue-collar city, has morphed into Palestine, New Jersey. In 2022, Main Street was officially changed to Palestine Way. Guess which day they officially made the change? On Israel’s Independence Day.

In “New Jersey’s First Islamic City,” Amy Mek, writing in RAIR Foundation USA (Rise Align Ignite Reclaim), points out:

Muslim elected leaders with deep ties to radical Islamic organizations are prioritizing Islamic identity over American values, steering Paterson away from its historical roots. Every policy change, symbolic gesture, and political appointment moves the city closer to becoming an Islamic enclave.

Just 30 miles from Dallas, Yasir Qadhi, a Pakistani American imam and theologian, is building a self-contained Muslim Sharia city of 1,000+ homes in East Plano, Texas.

Hillel Fuld, an American Israeli technology business advisor, blogger, and vlogger with a large following, posted on X:

If the west doesn’t wake up soon and start recognizing how radical Islam is penetrating every pillar of society, if people don’t stop labeling anyone who acknowledges the agenda of radical Islam an Islamophobe, if we don’t reverse the trajectory that we’re on, western civilization will join every other empire that threw morality out the window right before its demise.

The west is falling, and radical Islam is rising.

Please, people, wake the hell up. This shouldn’t be a political issue of the left and the right. This is a question of survival and if we don’t open our eyes soon, radical Islam will accomplish its goal and achieve its mission. They state it clearly. They (Islamists) want the destruction of the west. They’re using our politicians, our students, and our youth to spread the very dangerous cancer that is radical Islam. We need to diagnose the cancer and administer chemotherapy immediately.

Time is not on our side and history is quite clear about what happens next. I hope I’m wrong. But I’m not. I never, in my wildest darkest dreams imagined I’d see Americans marching in the streets of New York calling for the murder of Jews and declaring their support and loyalty to genocidal terrorist organizations full of murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. But here we are. Wake up. We are approaching the point of no return.

Of course, not every Muslim is looking to kill Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and other non-Muslim people. But what if only 1 percent of the world’s Muslims want to harm “infidels”? One percent doesn’t sound like that much, does it? However, as of 2020, there were over 1.8 billion Muslims in the world. That’s more than 25 percent of the world’s population, second after Christianity.

If just 1 percent of the world’s Muslim population is violently radicalized, that would equal 18 million Islamic jihadists. Ah, but we keep hearing that Islam is the religion of peace:

• Syria – Muslims are massacring Christians!
• Africa – Muslims are slaughtering Christians!
• Europe – Muslims are murdering Christians!
• Israel – Muslims are killing Jews! On October 7, 2023, they killed, raped and/or kidnapped about 1,400 innocent Israelis of all faiths.
• United States – Muslims are rioting for Hamas and/or planning or killing innocent Americans.

Leftists in Europe and Democrats in America refuse to respond to growing radical Jihadist threats. Instead, in cowardly fashion, they call us “Islamophobes” because we express valid concerns about radical Islam destroying Western civilization. Maybe leftists in America and Europe should learn how to say “Auschwitz” in Arabic.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at [email protected].

VIA Edwin’s Newsletter 

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