'10 Reasons our Visa System is Rotten to the Core'

A fascinating Migration Watch article from December 2009. Do read the whole piece, but here's an extract:

'the Government's new visa system is a disaster whose full results have yet to be seen.... 370,000 student visas were issued last year.

How many of those were bogus students coming here to work on the black market? And how many were potential terrorists?

The simple answer is, we don't know and we may never know.

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This system was brought into effect before there were effective measures to record people arriving and leaving Britain. The true dimensions of this scandal are, as usual with Home Office failures, concealed by bland statements. It is only a matter of time before the full consequences — which could include a terrorist attack on Britain — become apparent.'