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As it is revealed that the Border Agency has managed to 'lose' over 124,000 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, the Migration Watch petition reaches 100,000 signatures in less than a week. As we know all too well, the Tories are quite prepared to play the 'immigration card' when they are feeling vulnerable. This has been true of Tory leaders going back decades. It is even true of David Cameron, that most politically correct of Tory Prime Ministers ,who is on record as pledging to reduce net immigration into Britain to the 'tens of thousands' per year. He also felt obliged to make all manner of claims regarding this subject at his recent party conference. Listening to the rhetoric, an uniformed observer could be forgiven for thinking that Britain has a government that is interested in keeping control of immigration. Two scandals uncovered during the last week belie that somewhat. First we learnt that the Border Agency had managed to 'lose' over 124,000 immigrants and asylum seekers. A report published on Friday by the Commons home affairs committee revealed a sevenfold increase of 'lost' immigrants, from 18,000 in November 2010 to 124,000 in September of this year. It was also revealed that the rather Orwellian title of 'controlled archive' was given to the collection of data regarding these 'lost' immigrants. Perhaps it was hoped that by giving it such an innocuous sounding title, the contents of this 'archive' would never be scrutinised. To add insult to injury, MPs also learned that six senior Border Agency officials received bonuses of £5000 to £10,000 during the period in which a number of immigrants equating to the population of Cambridge were 'lost'. In addition to this, the agency spent £7m writing off bad debt and spent £4m on overpayments to staff and asylum claimants during the last year. Hot on the heels of these shocking revelations, we have learned from a leaked government document that Tory Home Secretary Theresa May extended a secret relaxation of the country's border controls recently. Border Agency staff had been instructed not to carry out full checks on hundreds of thousands of people entering the UK for a six week period. Despite not having the necessary information to make an informed assessment of the consequences of this policy, Mrs May extended the scheme for another six weeks. With such scandals being uncovered on a regular basis, there is little wonder that many of our people are increasingly saying 'enough is enough' and have signed the petition launched by Migration Watch that we featured here. Migration Watch have announced that the petition has received 100,000 signatures in a single week, making it one of the most popular e-petitions since the initiative was launched. We in the English Democrats congratulate Migration Watch on the excellent work that they continue to do to highlight this important issue and we would like to thank everyone who signed this petition as a result of reading our article on this subject. Read more here: Migration Watch UK: Immigration Petition Reaches 100,000 Signatures in Just One Week Robin Tilbrook's Blog: Foreign criminals let in by Tory cuts?
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Voters Make a Stand on Immigration
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Labour immigration controls = Tory immigration controls!