Thursday, June 30, 2005

Who is playing the immigration card now?

Are Labour exploiting fears of too many illegal immigrants when they link estimates of 570,000 illegal immigrants in the UK to the need for ID cards? How can Immigration Minister Tony McNulty dismiss the estimate as being "impossible to quantify" and then use the same figure to justify an unpopular policy?

In April, the then Immigration Minister Des Brown was saying "Until we change the system of checking people in and out of the country... we will not be able to give appropriate and accurate estimates". He meant to say "Until we win the election... we will not be able to give appropriate and accurate estimates" as I am not aware the system has changed so.

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