Immigration news

A study carried out by the Resolution Foundation think tank has found that migrants fuelled a 20-year jobs boom in Britain’s biggest cities, before the Brexit vote. According to the Resolution Foundation’s research, migrant workers accounted for 67% of ‘net employment growth’ – additional jobs – in the South East of England.

 

Meanwhile, migrant workers have also been attributed with jobs growth in the West Midlands (74%) and Outer London (107%). However, in Wales, migrant workers accounted for just 27% of employment growth.

According to a new study, 69% of US undocumented immigrants are in jobs deemed ‘essential’ to the nation’s fight against coronavirus. The study carried out by pro-US immigration group FWD.US, and based on the 2019 American Community Survey by the Census Bureau, also estimates that nearly one in five essential workers is an immigrant.

 

In contrast to the study’s findings, the Trump administration has maintained that protecting American workers against the influx of migrant labor is ‘crucial to fixing the economic harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic’.

Tighter UK visa restrictions for EU workers in the post-Brexit era has the country heading toward its biggest care crisis in decades, the director of a national live-in care provider has warned.

US immigration authorities should enforce workplace protections for illegal immigrants, according to documentary production firm CEO, Jon Ossoff. Mr Ossoff, a Democratic challenger in one of the two Georgia Senate runoffs in January 2021, said: “DACA recipients are every bit American as any of us.”

 

Ossoff vowed to ‘have the backs’ of so-called ‘Dreamers’ in the US Senate. During a recent campaign event, Ossoff was told by a young DACA recipient woman that she ‘feared being separated from her daughter or deported.’

By Sanwar Ali:

Over about twenty years we can find no evidence that the OISC (Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner) has undertaken any type of discrimination survey.

A new survey has revealed that the UK government has underestimated how many Hong Kong nationals will take-up its BNO visa offer. Research by Hongkongers in Britain (HKB) shows that as many as 600,000 people could take up the offer within the first three years of the scheme, while the Home Office estimated 500,000 would arrive in the UK.