Sentences with phrase «paid by migrants»

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«I think it's very interesting that one of the comments that was made yesterday by a senior Hungarian Conservative MP, he said that watching the migrants come into Hungary, seeing the cellphones they had and some of the clothes they were wearing and knowing how much money they had paid to the traffickers to get them there, he made the observation that actually they were better off than the people living in rural Hungary and that is an interesting point.»

Most social hardship is caused by their misguided neoliberal economic policies, but migrants represent convenient scapegoats for low - paid labour and struggling public services.

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.

They comply with the view that the welfare state has been made unsustainable by the workshy, that migrants are responsible for housing shortages and low pay, and that the only thing Labour can offer is some palliative relief to the inescapable realities of the world.

«Migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open,» he will say, «by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work».

Said only Labour could unite EU Leave and Remain voters, by running the economy better so that one blames migrants for driving down pay and conditions.

They didn't hear him go on to point the finger at employment agencies, not migrants themselves: «What we wouldn't allow is this practice by agencies, who are quite disgraceful the way they do it - recruit a workforce, low paid, and bring them here in order to dismiss an existing workforce in the construction industry and pay them low wages.»

The prime minister has apologised and pledged to pay compensation in an attempt to end the row over the injustices meted out to children of Windrush - era migrants who had been unable to produce the documents demanded by the Home Office to establish their right to remain.

«This will also help stop the abuse of migrant workers from unscrupulous employers who pay very low wages in the anticipation that these will be topped up by tax credits and family benefits,» he argued.

His spokesman told journalists: «He is not concerned about numbers,» adding that rather than seeking controls on immigration, Labour would seek to mitigate its effects on low - paid workers by reintroducing a «migrant impact fund».

He says the answer is for governments to manage migration better by ensuring that migrants are documented, paying taxes and not competing unfairly with natives on wages and hours.

A report from Grain also shows that employment generated by plantations often goes to foreign migrants, not locals, and that most of the jobs are seasonal, poorly paid and dangerous.

The absurdity of this was recognised as early as June 2013 by the Human Rights Joint Committee who urged the government to «pay attention to the impact of withdrawing legal aid for non asylum immigration matters» and «consider the cost - benefit case for providing legal aid to all unaccompanied migrant children».

The proposals, if implemented, will have the effect that many migrants and prisoners will no longer be eligible for legal aid; access to judicial review will be restricted; contracts for criminal work will be the subject of competitive tendering; and fees paid to legal aid solicitors and barristers will be reduced, by more than 50 % in some instances.

Isn't it possible for EU migrants to have NHS healthcare paid for by their country of origin through a reciprocal arrangement (like the British pensioners in Spain) or by using the EHIC card?

Employers and recruiters need to be jointly financially liable for all fees paid to work by migrant workers.