Sentences with phrase «immigration figures»

The centre - left think - tank IPPR warned earlier this summer that international students should be cut out of immigration figures altogether.

* 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.

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.

But the findings threatened to undermine Theresa May's mission to keep student numbers in the official immigration figures.

Critics want foreign students removed from the general immigration figures so the sector can continue to try to attract as many as possible, but government ministers have refused to budge.

«The oil tanker has turned around» Immigration figures released today showed that the government was finally beginning to reduce net migration to the UK, leading Green to restate his goal of cutting net immigration to the tens of thousands by 2015.

«It seems very convenient that this decision should be announced as once again, the quarterly immigration figures show that the government's policies are having limited impact on numbers,» he commented.

As Nuttall tries to focus on new immigration figures out today, he has been distracted by awkward questions about what he did before politics.

With polls tightening as Brits wake up to our powerlessness on soaring immigration figures, Cameron and Osborne are resorting to increasingly fanatical fearmongering.

Business secretary Vince Cable has been a cheerleader for efforts to separate overseas students from the headline immigration figure, but moves to clamp down on student visas have already had a damaging effect internationally.

«This week immigration figures revealed that one in nine people living in Britain was born overseas, highlighting a significant change in population make - up under Labour.»

Immigration minister Phil Woolas «crossed the line» when he accused independent statisticians of «sinister» motives in publishing embarrassing immigration figures, MPs said yesterday.

Noting this potential to reinvigorate our economy, Canada's Immigration Minister John McCallum stated earlier this year that immigration figures are set to rise.

Party members say: take students out of the immigration figures

Damian Green is shadow immigration minister and responds here to the attempt by Phil Woolas, the minister he shadows, to prevent publication of the Office for National Statistics» immigration figures.

Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant questioned whether the government was taking action against London Met because of the limited progress of the immigration figures.

The second is yesterday's immigration figures, showing that just four per cent of those coming to the UK are asylum seekers.