The Tier 2 Intra Company Transfer (ICT) route often used by multinational companies to transfer workers from overseas, although not part of the annual cap, also came under scrutiny by the public accounts select committee, based on
the number of migrants entering via this route.
Italy, and particularly its poorer southern regions, have been struggling with an influx of migrants for years, however, and has repeatedly called on its European neighbors for help in the increasingly arduous task of patrolling the Mediterranean and processing
the numbers of migrants entering Italy.
Rochdale's Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Rowen, MP for the last five years, said: «To label Mrs Duffy a bigot for raising concerns over
the numbers of migrants entering Britain from Eastern Europe because this Government failed to put the correct controls in place is ridiculous.»
Not exact matches
Becoming increasingly overwhelmed with the thousands
of migrants arriving, Hungary closed its borders with its Balkan neighbour Serbia by building a fence forcing the asylum seekers to
enter neighboring Croatia, which now says it is struggling to cope with the
numbers arriving as a result.