Thursday, March 04, 2010

Migration system mismanaged for decades – Huhne

Commenting on the recent Office for National Statistics migration figures, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:

“Public confidence and trust in the migration system has been shattered by decades of mismanagement.

“The abolition of exit checks by Conservative and Labour Governments means that we can only guess at the numbers coming in and out.

“People over-staying on short-term visas are probably the biggest source of illegal immigration and we still cannot say whether they are leaving when they are meant to do so.

“Exit checks must be reintroduced immediately.”


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Huhne is an authoritarian nightmare and doesn't belong in the Liberal Democrat party. Why on earth does he think it's the government's job to know where everyone is at any given moment? We don't need exit checks and the Liberal Democrats should be opposing the government's thoroughly objectionable e-borders scheme with all their might.

Frank Little said...

But we definitely need to know how many former immigrants are leaving the country in order to balance the statistics.

Anonymous said...

In an age of Terrorism, we need to know who is in the country and who's out of the country. Labour got us into this mess, they need to put measures in place to improve homeland security.

Anonymous said...

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