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Sid,
Every single government, to my sure knowledge, has lied about immigration for the past forty years.
The 1968 Commonwealth Immigants Act and the 1971 Immigration Act were supposed to be the end of large scale immigration into the United Kingdom.
At present best estimates put the number of illegal immigrants as between 600,000 and 1,000,000 (i.e. at least 1% of the total population). This figure does not include the children born to foreign nationals who are illegally in the U.K.
Included are 250,000 failed asylum seekers who have no right to be here, whose cases have been considered by the Home Office.
(fortunately most asylum seekers can not get as far as Dover/Heathrow to persue their claim otherwise we would be admitting literally hundreds of millions of people who fulfil the criteria as set out in the 1951 Act).
The only serious way to sort this out is to withdraw all benefits for anyone not legally in the UK. Health, Housing, Schooling etc etc and to do that we need an identifier for who is legally in the UK i.e. an ID card which Lib and Con are against.
Plus we need a bit of bottle when it comes to removal and to forget the bleeding heart liberals who protest because 'they were doing so well in school','he's such a good worker','the family are part of the whole community' and the rest of the crap.