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Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has called for a total ban on permanent immigration into the UK for five years. He has also said that no one who comes to work in the UK should be able to claim benefits for five years after arriving in the country. He says that to be able to put the immigration ban into place would require the UK to leave the European Union.
Sam Dastyari, an Australian Labor Party senator from New South Wales, has written an article in Australian newspaper The Australian calling for a 'big Australia'. Mr Dastyari says 'I believe in a big Australia. We need the best and the brightest to come to Australia.
Mr Dastyari was born in 1983 in Iran to an Iranian mother and a father who was from Azerbaijan. His parents took him to Australia when he was five. He joined the Labor Party at 16. He was appointed to the Senate, the upper house of the Australian parliament, in August 2013.
The former Polish president Lech Walesa has accused the UK's prime minister David Cameron of behaving 'irrationally and short-sightedly' over immigration. Mr Walesa was speaking on Polish television.
Mr Walesa became a globally famous figure when he led a strike by the Solidarity union at the Gdansk shipyard in 1980. After the fall of communism in eastern Europe, Mr Walesa became the first democratically elected president of Poland in 1990. He lost power in 1995.
The UK's Office for National Statistics has released information about the make-up of the country's immigrant population since 1951. The main finding s that the immigrant population quadrupled from 1.9m in 1951; 4.5% of the resident population, to 7.5m in 2011, 13% of the population.
The composition of the immigrant population has changed too. From 1951 until 2001, the largest immigrant group in the UK was the Irish. In 2011, the Irish were replaced as the most populous immigrant group by the Indians. There were 694,000 Indian born residents in England and Wales at the 2011 census.
Vince Cable, the UK's Business Secretary, has told the BBC that the immigration target set by UK Prime Minister David Cameron is 'arbitrary' and 'impractical'. He added that the government 'almost certainly won't achieve' the target by the next election.
The UK government has committed itself to reducing net immigration to below 100,000 annually by 2015 from a previous level of 250,000 a year under the last Labour Government. Mr Cameron told the BBC in 2010 that he wanted to see net immigration falling to 'tens of thousands' annually.
A health minister in the UK government has announced that the UK is to introduce charges for health care for all migrants. Foreign nationals living in the UK, as well as UK nationals resident abroad and tourists, will be expected to pay for medicines, for some emergency care and for eye and dental treatment.