A selection of recent media reports
Bates Wells hip hop lawyer wins Snoop Dogg immigration battle
Bates Wells & Braithwaite has paved the way for US rapper Snoop Dogg to enter the UK after a long-running battle with UK immigration.
The Lawyer.com (09-Mar-2010)
Social Care: Foreign and destitute
Around 20,000 asylum-seeking families are living in destitution in the UK. Nancy Rowntree asks whether the system needs reform. Asylum seekers. Image: Arlen Connelly Aicha was forced into prostitution after her claim for asylum was rejected by the UK authorities and her financial support was...
cypnow (09-Mar-2010)
Boarding Schools Association: 'still has concerns' over Tier 4 system
Despite a relatively smooth rollout of the new Tier 4 system for the immigration of international (non-EEA) students, the Boarding Schools Association (BSA) has expressed concerns over its future...
Politics.co.uk (09-Mar-2010)
Councils attacked for giving too much information on asylum-seeking children to UKBA
Local authorities have been accused of supplying more information on asylum-seeking children than they should to the UK Border's Agency (UKBA), which is allegedly using the information to make decisions on...
Community Care (09-Mar-2010)
Figures that reveal the cost of life for those with no hiding place
Asylum is protection given by a country to someone who is fleeing persecution in their own country. It is given under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of...
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
Asylum is a complex and emotive issue that will never satisfy everyone
If we can be sure of anything, it is that the mysterious and harrowing tale of the Russian family who jumped from a Glasgow tower block was not the typical story of failed asylum-seekers.
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
IMMIGRATION: NO PARTY CAN CONTROL IT SAY VOTERS
WESTMINSTER politicians from all main parties have failed to convince voters that they can control immigration, an exclusive opinion poll for the Daily Express reveals...
Daily Express (09-Mar-2010)
VOTERS' CONCERNS ON MIGRATION MUST NOT BE IGNORED
AS we inch closer to the general election the political parties are ever more vocal with policies, pledges and promises as they clamour for...
Daily Express (09-Mar-2010)
Tottenham gypsy brothers face fraud charges
A FAMILY of Romany gypsies are facing allegations of fraud following accusations they cheated the benefits system. The four Dumitru brothers, who all live in council houses in Tottenham, are accused of benefitting from a scam designed to sidestep immigration laws in order to receive National...
Haringey Independent (08-Mar-2010)
Illegal workers found at Great Yarmouth restaurants
Immigration officers from the UK Border Agency found seven illegal workers during a raid of two Chinese restaurants in the Great Yarmouth area on...
Evening news 24 (08-Mar-2010)
Alastair Stewart: 'If they lie, I will be the toughest policeman on the block'
The ITN newsreader will chair the first live TV debate between the party...
Guardian Unlimited - Media (08-Mar-2010)
Fake ID bride-to-be's 'special' day ruined when she was arrested going down the aisle
A pregnant would-be bride was arrested moments before her wedding for using a forged Nigerian passport under a false...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (08-Mar-2010)
Female campaigner for gipsy rights 'ran £2.6m benefit scam for Romanians'
A campaigner for Roma gipsies' rights has been charged with helping scores of Romanians illegally claim millions in benefits.
Daily Mail (08-Mar-2010)
Police inquire into identity of Glasgow flat deaths
Police are working to establish the identities of two men and a woman who died after falling from a high-rise block of flats in Glasgow. Strathclyde Police said the incident happened shortly before 0845 GMT on Sunday at the Red Road flats complex in the city's Springburn...
BBC News (08-Mar-2010)
MILLIONS MORE FOR MIGRANTS!
TAXPAYERS will be forced to fork out millions more in benefits for EU migrants because of changes in the law. At the moment immigrants from eastern European countries can only claim UK benefits after working here for 12...
Daily Star (08-Mar-2010)
IMMIGRANTS PROFIT AGAIN
BRITAIN'S benefits bill will increase even more when new rules allow EU claimants from eastern europe to receive handouts after just three months rather than...
Daily Express (08-Mar-2010)
Fashion guru urges Tories to get 'selfish' on immigration
THE Conservative Party's latest high profile supporter has claimed that Britain needs to start being "more selfish" over immigration policy. Tessa Hartmann believes that, as far as the Labour government is concerned, 'enough is enough' Tessa Hartmann, the woman behind Scottish Fashion Week, was...
The Scotsman (08-Mar-2010)
Death fall asylum trio 'faced order to leave UK'
THREE asylum seekers who fell to their deaths from the 15th floor of a Glasgow tower block were facing deportation, neighbours claimed last night. The Red Road flats where the three fell to their deaths The bodies of two men and a woman were discovered at the foot of the Red Road flats yesterday...
The Scotsman (08-Mar-2010)
NEVER FORGET THESE 13 DREADFUL YEARS OF LABOUR MISRULE
WITH the general election only weeks away the pressure on the Tories is becoming...
Daily Express (08-Mar-2010)
Red Meat Toryism? Part 2.
Commenting on this post, Tim Montgomerie writes: Did you actually read what I wrote Alex? Not once did I call for an end to the new Toryism. I advocated blending new and old...
The Spectator (07-Mar-2010)