Immigration update

From Burning Our Money comes one of their well researched articles, including this extract:

"As we blogged here, the independent and authoritative National Institute for Social and Economic Research has dredged through rafts of official stats and came up with the following conclusions (based on the Labour Force Survey for Q1 2007):

4.6% of the British population arrived here in the last decade- an extraordinary 2.7m people
Only 20% of arrivals were working in high skill jobs ("professional, managerial, and associate professional occupations")
1.3m were not working at all- ie roughly half of all arrivals
0.5m were not even of working age- ie roughly one-fifth of arrivals were children and old people
So nearly half of all arrivals are not contributing directly to GDP, but they are most certainly consuming public services. Not just schools, hospitals, and social housing, but also our criminal justice system: as we blogged here, foreigners are now responsible for more than half the murders in London, immigrant crime is costing us somewhere in the range £3- £10bn pa, and foreign prisoners are occupying 14.3% of our jail places (end 2006)."


Do read the rest...