The known and ignored risks of an “open door” immigration policy

The Times reports that:

"Labour's “open door” immigration policy knowingly risked allowing dangerous people to settle in Britain unchecked, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times.

The Whitehall correspondence, which was illegally withheld by the Home Office for four years, shows how ministers were told by the country’s most senior immigration official that his staff were to be “encouraged to take risks” when granting visas, work permits and extended residency to hundreds of thousands of new migrants.

The cover-up of this policy of risk-taking was so concerted that Richard Thomas, the then information commissioner, sent a team of investigators into the Home Office to trawl all the relevant papers. Earlier this year he rebuked the department for breaking the law and ordered it to release the material under the freedom of information (FoI) law.

The documents help to explain the huge rise in the flow of migrants into Britain as the Home Office rushed to clear a backlog of 45,000 cases.

Officials agreed to fast-track 337,000 applications with minimal checks. This led to a rapid rise in immigration. In 1999, 170,000 visas were granted; by 2002, this had risen to 300,000.

As officials were being ordered to take risks, several potentially dangerous people entered the UK. In late 2001, more than 20 Taliban, who had fled from Afghanistan after their defeat by American and British forces, were allowed to stay in the UK. "

This latest revelation follows several other recent pieces of news that show this Labour government have lied, lied and lied again to this country about immigration and are mostly unrepentant. Do read the Times article to remind yourself of the duplicity of Labour over immigration policy, from Beverley Hughes's lies about the implementation of the "Brace" policy, the deliberate Home Office cover-up with the adding of the words “to be withheld” to the top of at least one document, Steve Moxon's efforts to get to the truth that he knew was being withheld. The article also reminds us of David Neather's recent claim that that uncontrolled mass immigration had been a deliberate, covert policy to change the country’s demographics.

The Time piece ends with what may be a key passage and no doubt one that the BBC will ignore for as long as they can:

"Chris Mullin, a former minister, recalled in his memoirs that ministers had “barely touched the rackets that surrounded arranged marriages . . . terrified of the huge cry of ‘racism’ that would go up

. . . There is the added difficulty that at least 20 Labour seats, including Jack (Straw’s), depend on Asian votes”.

With up to 80% of ethnic minorities voting Labour, it is obvious that the more immigrants who get the right to vote, the greater is Labour’s electoral share. Perhaps Mullin has stumbled on a smoking gun. "

And yet the BBC and others in the ruling elite wonder why the BNP are gaining popularity at the expense of the Labour party. Meanwhile a number of areas of some UK cities bear more resemblance to Ludhiana, Dhaka, Lahore or even Mogadishu rather than a European city.