The centre - left think - tank IPPR warned earlier this summer that international students should be cut out of immigration figures altogether. (politics.co.uk)
* The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act allowed illegal immigrants already living in the United States to apply for legal status if they met certain requirements, which resulted in a dramatic upswing in immigration figures in the late 1980s and 1990s, totaling about 2.7 million people over that period. (edweek.org)
The party knows it must differentiate itself from the Tories and highlight the economic cataclysm of May's ideological Brexit, which would casually smash livelihoods along with immigration figures. (politics.co.uk)