400 foreign criminals allowed to stay in Britain
Up to 400 criminals involved in a foreign prisoner scandal, including some of the worst offenders, have been told they can stay in Britain, the Home Office has disclosed. / The Daily Telegraph, 20 November 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3490635/400-foreign-criminals-allowed-to-stay-in-Britain.html
Less than a third of the 1,013 convicts have been deported two and half years after the scandal broke and subsequently cost Charles Clarke his job as Home Secretary.
And many more could end up staying because 90 are still missing, 31 are in jail again and 160 are still going through the process. The figures emerged as immigration minister Phil Woolas admitted too many migrant workers have been let in under previous Government policies. He also launched another attack on asylum lawyers as he revealed the case of a Nigerian who had his claim rejected four times and was removed, only to have to be brought back because his solicitor lodged a judicial review."

Home from Home: Addressing the Issues of Migrant Workers' Housing / Building and Social Housing Foundation, 2008
http://digbig.com/4xtjb
"Migrant workers come to the UK to seek employment but all too often find themselves living in expensive, overcrowded and poor-quality accommodation. This report seeks to make a fresh assessment of this important issue."

Help white working class, or risk fuelling anti-immigrant surge, warns Trevor Phillips / Equality and Human Rights Commission, 29 October 2008
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/newsandcomment/Pages/CBIMigrationsummit.aspx
"Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, today warned that Britain risks fuelling anti-immigrant sentiment unless it takes active steps to help those hit hardest by the economic crisis -- including the white working class."

Tougher rules aimed at curbing population rise• Woolas believes points system will act as brake / The Guardian, 25 October 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/25/immigrationpolicy-immigration-points-system
"Phil Woolas, the immigration minister, confirmed a toughening of Labour's immigration policy yesterday by indicating for the first time that the government is to use its new Australian-style points-based system to restrict the growth in Britain's population. Woolas signalled the shift in emphasis during a BBC Today programme interview yesterday given to counter the accusation that he had been gagged by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, after his withdrawal from this week's edition of BBC TV's Question Time."

Office of National Statistics link to report?? cannot find

ICE multifaceted strategy leads to record enforcement results / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS)
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0810/081023washington.htm
"Reflecting the impact of heightened, strategic enforcement efforts, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts reached record levels in virtually every enforcement category in fiscal year 2008, from criminal, gang and fugitive alien arrests to federal prosecutions and formal deportations..."

Environmental migrants: UN meeting aims to build consensus on definitions, support, protection / EurekAlert, 8 October 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/unu-emu100608.php
"A growing international consensus to formally recognize and protect people uprooted by environmental problems is expected to accelerate at a major conference in Bonn, Germany Oct. 9 to 11. Featured at the conference will be the presentation and discussion of early results of the first comprehensive empirical study, funded by the European Commission, gauging the extent to which environment problems influence migration decisions."

Immigration minister Phil Woolas stands by UK population 'promise' / 24dash.com, 24 October 2008
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"Immigration minister Phil Woolas has said he stuck by his controversial promise that the Government will not allow the UK's population to rise as high as 70 million."

Welfare groups condemn minister's pledge on migrants Phil Woolas's promise to make it harder for foreign workers to settle in Britain sparks fury / The Independent, 19 October 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/welfare-groups-condemn-ministers-pledge-on-migrants-966240.html
"Britain's new immigration minister was accused yesterday of leading a "baying pack" after he suggested the growing economic crisis could force a reduction in the number of migrants allowed into the UK."

Security body 'overspent by £17m' / BBC, 17 October 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7675153.stm
"A government body which licenses bouncers and other security workers has overspent by more than £17m, the National Audit Office has said. The Security Industry Authority is also accused of failing to keep track of who exactly is working in the sector."

[USA] Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2007 / U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS)
PDF - http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2007.pdf

U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain / Government Accountability Office (GAO), 25 September 2008
PDF - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08935high.pdf
GAO-08-935

U.S. Asylum System: Significant Variation Existed in Asylum Outcomes across Immigration Courts and Judges / GAO, 25 September 2008
PDF - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08940high.pdf
GAO-08-940

[USA] Democracy in the Age of New Media: A Report on the Media and the Immigration Debate / Brookings Institution, September 2008
http://digbig.com/4xrkt
"The U.S. media have hindered effective policy making on immigration for decades, and their impact has been increasing in recent years as a result of an ongoing evolution in the media industry. Deeply ingrained practices in American journalism have produced a narrative that conditions the public to associate immigration with illegality, crisis, controversy and government failure..."

U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain / GAO, 25 September 2008
PDF - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08935high.pdf
GAO-08-935

[USA] ICE arrests more than 1,700 during largest ever nationwide gang surge / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), September 2008
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0810/081001washington.htm
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today the arrests of 1,759 gang members and associates, criminals and immigration violators as part of a comprehensive law enforcement operation led by ICE agents. Law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local level partnered during this four-month long public safety surge, which ended yesterday, that targeted violent street gangs and their criminal associates in 53 cities across 28 states."
Factsheet: Operation Community Shield: Targeting Violent Transnational Street Gangs
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/opshieldfactsheet.htm

Indian IT/BPO industry supports new UK points based system / workpermit.com, 4 September 2008
http://digbig.com/4xrkp
NASSCOM, an industry organization and leading advocate for India's information technology and business process outsourcing industry (IT/BPO) has voiced its support for the United Kingdom's new points based immigration system."

International Migration Outlook 2008 / OECD, 10 September 2008
http://www.oecd.org/document/3/0,3343,en_2649_33931_41241219_1_1_1_1,00.html
"OECD countries should adapt their labour migration policies more closely to likely future demand for workers in all areas of their economies, opening up to lower-skilled workers as well as to those with high skills, according to an OECD report."

European Union: 'Blue Card' gains new life / workpermit.com, 26 September 2008
http://digbig.com/4xrkn
"European Union interior ministers met in Brussels on 25 September to discuss an EU-wide immigration pact that would include endorsing the 'blue card' skilled immigration directive. First proposed in October of 2007, the blue card faced opposition at first but is now being accepted by most of the 27 member nations."

EU opens immigration 'job center' in Africa / workpermit.com, 6 Ocotber 2008
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2008-10-06/europe/eu-opens-job-centers-africa.htm
"The European Union has opened a job center in the Mali capital of Bamako to help people in Africa find legal work in the EU, according to the BBC. Each year, thousands of people illegally migrate to the EU from Africa and many die trying...."

New formula predicts how people will migrate in coming decades / Eurekalert, 29 September 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/ru-nfp092608.php
"Nearly 200 million people now live outside their country of birth. But the patterns of migration that got them there have proven difficult to project. Now scientists at Rockefeller University, with assistance from the United Nations, have developed a predictive model of worldwide population shifts that they say will provide better estimates of migration across international boundaries."