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According to research published by Migration Watch – an organisation that lobbies for stricter UK immigration controls – benefits, employment levels and wages differ vastly across different migrant groups in the UK. The report has been criticised as being misleading.
New research, published on July 22 2015 by the University of New Hampshire Casey School of Public Policy, shows that the number of Mexicans entering the United States, legally or otherwise, has decreased sharply in recent years.
Researchers at the Univeristy of Texas and the University of New Hampshire say that the number of Mexican immigrants entering the US hit a peak in 2003. Since then, numbers have declined by more than half.
Recent restrictions to the Tier 4 Visa should come as no surprise. Previously in a speech from UK business secretary, Sajid Javid, on July 10 he said that the UK visa system will not be loosened for international students, despite experts saying that doing so would improve Britain's slowing productivity. In fact the opposite is now happening. It is becoming more difficult for Tier 4 visa students to study in the UK.
According to the Road Haulage Association (RHA), businesses are potentially losing £1 billion worth of goods every year because of the actions of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel into the UK. The RHA says that migrants stowing away in trucks are damaging goods, leaving companies with no choice but to destroy cargoes because they cannot take the risk of delivering contaminated goods.
Chief executive of the RHA, Richard Burnett, said: "Business owners are being forced to take extreme action by scrapping cargo. They can't take any risks if goods have been tampered with or contaminated."
The issue of supposed sanctuary cities – which refers to cities that do not fully comply with federal US immigration laws – has become a focus of discussion in the US Congress after Donald Trump raised the subject while campaigning for the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential race.
On Tuesday, July 21, Republican Chuck Grassley - Senator of Iowa and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee – revealed new legislation that would target areas of the US "harbouring" undocumented immigrants.
The town of Freital in Saxony, Germany, has witnessed the rise of a new anti-immigration group after some locals were shocked to find that a new 'central asylum camp' had been opened in their town at a hotel (Hotel Leonardo).