I don't think Cameron's lot are going to be making any improvements to the immigration situation when they get into government, if anything things are likely to get worse because they'll just make cuts in manpower and resources all round and I don't think the UKBA is likely to be spared.Originally Posted by Dedworth
It's over the last 12 years that this shower has allowed uncontrolled immigration, so called "asylum" seeking and has failed to deport criminals & prisoners etc. It is only recently with an election looming that under the spin of smoke and mirrors it is introducing, in it's eyes, stricter measures.
If immigration had been consistently, properly governed and controlled since 1997 we wouldn't need new security checks, gaudily uniformed UKBA staff etc etc
See this thread
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php?t=20627
about how the numbers of bogus "students" has soared since supposedly stricter new rules were introduced 12 months ago. You couldn't make it up
They may as they have promised to do, introduce their simplistic, headline grabbing, absolute cap on immigrant numbers per year, but the real problem isn't legal immigration it's illegal immigration.
I'm not sure how the members of this forum would feel about an absolute cap on immgrants on an annual basis as Cameron proposes, as it may mean that someone's wife or fiancee will be refused a visa because the limit for that year has already been reached and depending on how the cap figure relates to present legal immigration figures, it may create a backlog of perfectly legitimate people waiting year after year for a visa to be issued.
Iain.
