Sentences with phrase «migrants coming to the country»

Speaking on BBC Newsnight the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said there were too many low - skilled EU migrants coming to the country.

Not exact matches

The different countries and aid organizations» resources are already stretched to a breaking point and failing to find accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants coming to Europe.

It is the result of massive migration in the post-World War II period, which in turn has had a variety of causes: economic and political pressures in the countries from which the migrants came, labor shortages and an easing of immigration barriers in the countries to which they moved, and in the latter countries probably also an easing of the prejudices that had in the past resulted in high barriers (though arguably this new tolerance could turn out to be a temporary phenomenon).

Reeves also said Labour would extend the period for which EU migrants are prevented from claiming out - of - work benefits from three months to two years, a move that might deter some coming to the country even if they had a job offer.

The government has insisted there is no question of having an «open door» to migrants coming to the UK from Romania and Bulgaria when the countries join the EU next year.

When it comes to irregular migrant children, deportation data shows that children and families with children are not a priority group for immigration officers; this means that these children are more likely to spend a significant part of their childhood in the country of residence in a situation of protracted legal limbo.

Although government evidence shows that 370,000 people who came to the country as foreign nationals are claiming benefits, Miliband pointed out that proportionately fewer migrants were claiming benefits than in the UK labour force.

I'm a second - generation migrant, my parents came to this country from Pakistan, just like the Windrush generation, obviously a different part of the world, from South Asia not the Caribbean, but other than that, similar in almost every way.»

And it's why we will look at any practical proposals they come up with to extend the period new migrants have to work and contribute before becoming entitled to full support and addressing the anomaly that allows child benefit to be paid out for children not living in this country.

«The anecdotal research is that migrants coming into the EU from outside, as we have recently seen, and migrants within the EU, are extraordinarily well informed about the systems operating in different countries and how they will be able to interact with them - and will make calculations about their own net position at the end of the week or the month.

But Mr Cable insisted that migrants who come into the country made an «overwhelmingly positive contribution» to the economy.

Labour backbench MP David Lammy slammed the Home Office's response saying that the Windrush migrants were already citizens when they came to the country 70 years ago.

(Not least because the governments of Poland, Lithuania, Spain and other countries with large flows of migrants to Britain will never accept having to go to their own voters at election time having made it harder for them to come to Britain to work.)

It's a 24 - hour period when migrants like me and supportive Britons will come together to send a clear message that we're better off together and that losing Britain's migrants would be a blow to the country.

Through their study of people in diverse places, including those countries from which migrants to Australia have come, students come to recognise their similarities with other people, to better understand their differences, and to demonstrate respect for cultural diversity and the human rights of all people in local, national, regional and global settings.

Here are a few headline - grabbing incidents of migrant smuggling from across the world: United States Thousands of unaccompanied minors, many of whom originate from countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador, have been migrating to the United States for a while, but the situation came to the limelight with a sudden increase in activity in late summer / early fall 2014.

While Trump calls for mass deportations, migrant bans and a wall to keep away people from coming into the country, Clinton wants a pathway to citizenship, immigrant integration and protection from deportation.