Sentences with phrase «economic migrants»

He ruled out introducing a work permit scheme, but announced that economic migrants from those countries would be required to register with the immigration authorities.

This is because the majority of so - called immigrants are British nationals, refugees and asylum seekers as well as economic migrants.

But the events that have created the European migration crisis put this distinction between refugees and economic migrants into question.

All are assumed to be merely economic migrants with «frivolous» reasons for seeking asylum.

In the long term we should up - skill British workers so that we do not need as many economic migrants to fill jobs.

Prof Peres added: «Given the enormous supply of cheap unoccupied land, Brazilian Amazonia continues to attract a large contingent of economic migrants from more populated regions.

Immigration We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

According to the Guardian, «the essays, brought together by the IPPR thinktank, also point out that Labour first devised the idea of a points - based system for economic migrants in 2000, but took until 2008 to bring it into being».

From this understanding, the South Africa must also protect its resources from unwanted economic migrants (including refugees and asylum - seekers) who are in the country to use up its resources.

We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

Britain says it will not take part in the quota system and has called for economic migrants to be pushed back to where they came from.

Last week, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, met with leaders from countries all along the Balkan route and appealed to economic migrants not to come to Europe, as he warned that «No European country will be a transit country.»

A limit on economic migrants from outside the EU, changes to the rules on family and student visas and a crackdown on bogus colleges have helped bring down net migration by nearly a third from its peak.

Kammenos, who is a member of the Greek government's junior coalition party Independent Greeks, said that «If Europe leaves us in the crisis, we will flood it with migrants, and even worse for Berlin if in that wave of millions of economic migrants there will be some jihadis of the Islamic State too,» according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

I stand by my argument that saturating our labor markets and swelling our already ample underclass with third - world economic migrants is exhausting our capacity to aid the vaster numbers who are left behind, let alone the needy Americans who have nowhere else to go.

A London economic migrant myself (I first arrived here at 23 as a fresh - faced trainee - solicitor), I can not now conceive of living outside its boundaries or tiring of city centre living.

Secondly, crushing majority of the so - called «refugees» are in fact economic migrants, thus neither EU as a whole nor any Member State has any obligation to accept them.

To term the «creation» of jobs out of thin air by spending tax revenues on wages (often paid to economic migrants creating new load on pubic services) an «investment» is an economic deceit.

Bulgaria and Romania were granted accession earlier this year despite concerns over the transparency of their legal systems, but the biggest worry among existing members is the expected flood of economic migrants seeking work within their borders.

Britain can not exclude economic migrants from the EU and now the British economy is recovering while the eurozone economy continues to flatline, this type of immigration is increasing.

Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of the TGWU, said the government should adopt «sensible» policies that avoid making criminals out of law - abiding economic migrants.

In April we introduced a limit on the number of economic migrants able to come to the UK from outside the European Economic Area.

They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans — «Angels» in Walter Benjamin's terms — who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Its title corresponds to the geographic distance between Pakistan and Greece, the two locations that constitute the start and end point (even if temporal) of the networks that smuggle economic migrants from the subcontinent into Europe.

>> > Charles Clarke will unveil proposals designed to screen out unwanted economic migrants and prevent failed asylum seekers from remaining in Britain.

He said in the speech: «The government has agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

Tuesday Questions — Formula governing levels of NHS spending in the different NHS regions in England; action to assist first - time property buyers; benefits to the UK of ceasing to classify foreign university students as economic migrants; prevention of military assistance to Syrian rebels.

Historically, no country has understood this better than the United States — a nation that for generations welcomed wave after wave of economic migrants into its ranks.

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.

An economic migrant — a desert nomad — leads his family toward a land of promise, believing he is following the will of his Creator.

Miller's conceptual clarification highlights a distinction between «refugees» and «economic migrants»; between individual human rights and the requirements for democratic controls; and between individual freedom of movement within countries and between countries.

Similarly, the point about the «crushing» majority of the last waves of people arriving in Europe being «economic migrants» is flatly wrong.

Our judges would continue arbitrarily to overturn deportation orders, and there would be no upper limit to the number of economic migrants or refugees.»

Senior Tory ministers insist the interim cap on non-EU economic migrants will cut the number of permits available this year by as little as 1,300.

It's quite possible to be a refugee and an economic migrant.

Mr Healey insisted that the changes introduced by the prime minister would not alter the allocation of housing on the basis of need or the policy that economic migrants are barred from applying for social housing within their first five years of settling in the UK.

Rather, Holloway drew jeers from Labour members and was taken to task by Stephen Doughty MP for «constantly blurring the lines and definitions between refugee, migrant, economic migrant and asylum seeker».

And she added: «People don't know or understand the difference between a migrant, an economic migrant and an asylum seeker, they all merge into one.

Ukip's Health spokesman says any visitors or economic migrants should have to prove they have health insurance before entering the UK.