New UK Immigration Restrictions to Affect South Asians

By: Amy Crawford 3:40 pm

With all the controversy at home, sometimes we forget that other countries have controversies over immigration as well—especially the European Union. For example, the UK enacted regulations last week that will restrict the number of immigrants that can come to the country from outside Europe.

The UK’s Migration Advisory Committee, a division of the UK Border Agency, introduced criteria for hiring outside the UK: the job must be skilled and the company must be able to prove it could not hire a UK resident. This is in lieu of a quota system for immigrants from outside Europe, which some in Parliament had called for.

The British government is calling this a “points system,” and it would apply to positions on an official list, including nursing, engineering, consulting and education. Jobs not on the list—for example, general practitioner MDs, IT technicians and low-paid cooks—could not be filled by foreign workers. Since EU citizens are already allowed to work in the UK, this new system would primarily affect South Asians, who make up the bulk of immigrants to the UK.

The restrictions come as many Britons say they believe the country already has too many immigrants, and as popular TV host Noel Edmonds is declaring the country “full,” and saying, “It is a fact that there is a finite number of people who can fit into a lift.”

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    European governments a fortune reaping Immigrants from all over the world of their money by brandishing their ailing economies as flourishing grounds through their vast control of international mass media. Many Immigrants to the UK and Europe only learn of the disadvantaged positions they are to fill up too late, in harsh reality and after they have spent fortunes on falsely advertised degrees, job opportunities and promise of a better life.
    However the tide is changing currently and people of all nations are waking up to the fact that all that glitter is not gold. I migrated to the UK for study about 8months ago due to the highly publicised standards and opportunity for work "Fresh Graduate Worker" but it took me only a few months to find out i had fell to the extensive lies of the UK educational system, an ailing institution that depends mainly on international students and employs massive marketing campaigns based on false acclaims. I hope to go back to my country ASAP and i have succeeded in desuading more people from falling into the trap of coming here to study. It is definitely no worth the hassle, not to mention the 10000 pounds i had to part with for a year's fees and further 8000 for living expenses. I have spoken to many international students and it is a general consensus, so my stomach churns when i read articles like these that seem to disregard the fact that majority of the immigrants to Europe and UK in particular were deceived by the misrepresentations of these institutions who have robbed immigrants of their careers and livelihood.
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    I was born in Britain and moved to the United States 20 years ago. This action is long overdue and the rest of Europe needs to follow. England should be English, France should be French, Italy should be Italian...not Nigerian, Pakistani, Jamaican, Indian, or Moroccan.

    I second you, Jamel, about America's unfortunate conversion into third-world Mexico. Even worse are grating lectures about slavery (which my ancestors had no part in) and preferences for African-Americans over me because of it.
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    Bravo to Britain! I was wondering when any of my brothers and sisters of the Western World were going to wake up and do what is necessary to protect their own homelands. Something that the Left-leaning peoples of all Western countries need to understand is that White people, especially the native White peoples of Europe, are not all evil racists who want to rule over and/or genocide people of other ethnicities. The Netherlands, England, and Germany have all severely curtailed immigration after a period of amnesia toward history and the end game of mass population movements.

    As an American of Lebanese, Irish and English ancestry, I beseech the peoples of Europe to follow the lead of the English, Dutch and Germans. Maybe America will do the same some day soon; people here are ticked about the Latin Invasion and tired of hearing about slavery, ended 1865.

    Do not feel personal responsibility for any of the various events that minorities and the Left use to endlessly bludgeon us into self-hatred. We Europeans are a wonderful people with a millenia-long history and culture of discovery, adventure, and courage. Our homelands, our traditions, our peoples, our languages... these are all worth preserving.

    When it all comes down to it, only Europeans will defend Europe and all that makes it a beacon of light to the modern world that its peoples have constructed. It's good to see the resistance to unfettered immigration simmering, but more must be done. I encourage you: do whatever you must to ensure that the Europe of your grandfathers and ancestors will also be the Europe of your grandchildren and your descendants.

    Only time will tell if the West is able to awaken from its almost 50-year coma and take the steps necessary to save themselves from annihilation. I pray to God that we do.

    Be proud of who you are.
 
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