Sentences with phrase «immigration numbers down»

That tells us that we must refine and smarten the points - based system that was left to us by the previous Government so that it does the job of ensuring that we get immigration numbers down to sustainable levels.

This is not a government that wants to hear about concerns, it is a government obsessed with getting immigration numbers down at all costs.

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The estimate in Silicon Valley is that the number jumps higher to like 50 %, so anyone who talks about shutting down immigration should have their head examined.

There are some predictable lines: the Tories are still failing on immigration; government is missing its own target; the Bill won't tackle biggest problems; «illegal immigration» is up and deportation numbers down; The Bill does nothing about exploitation in the labour market.

Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Joe Crowley say federal immigration agents appear to be «targeting» a number of «immigrant rights leaders across the United States,» and demanded a sit - down with agency brass about «the rash of enforcement actions.»

Senior Liberal Democrats say it was their presence in government which prevented the Conservatives capping student immigration, kept open the post-study work route and prevented a more draconian crack - down on the numbers of people entering Britain.

Ms. Gillibrand's potential problems stem from a number of positions she held while in the House, including her support of gun rights and for cracking down on so - called sanctuary cities like New York that do not enforce all immigration laws.

This country needs a tough, practical immigration policy that pushes the numbers down.

It looks like the government's plan to hammer down immigration numbers by focusing on foreign students is paying off.

«Fear of being labelled «racist» has paralysed the entire political class — leaving the way clear for Labour ideologues to use mass immigration to remake British identity, all but collapsing public services under the weight of numbers and driving down wages to undercut British workers... whereas Labour concealed what it was doing to dupe its core vote, the Tories have concealed what they are not doing in order to dupe their core vote» — Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail

The Windrush scandal exploded when it emerged a number of Caribbean migrants who arrived between the 1940s and 1970s were wrongly declared illegal as the Tories sought to crack down on unlawful immigration.

International student numbers are a relatively easily factor to control in immigration and experts warn the government will be tempted to focus its effort on them in order to get numbers down to Cameron's promised «tens of thousands».

The suspicion among lawyers is that the Home Office had found an excuse to hammer down the immigration numbers, picking on overwhelmingly young students and freshly - arrived workers.

Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.