Skilled Indians rally to oppose UK immigration laws

100,000 Indians take British government to court

London: Likening the British government to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, 49,000 mostly Indian professionals and their families are to get a court hearing next week over their bid to block changes to the terms of their stay in Britain on the grounds of human rights and race relations.

To stay, migrants have to prove they are earning at least 40,000 pounds a year and were below 32 years of age when they first applied.

Why, despite perennial griping, doesn't immigration matter more in the U.S.?

VDARE asks the question.

And, because of the magnitude of their defeats, we now have to endure the slings and arrows of the MainStream Media and its non-stop pontificating about how immigration reform doesn’t resonate at the polls.

See, for one example, Collins’ editorial cited above with its reference to the “fringe”.

Or read former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda’s gloating conversation with a Miami Herald reporter wherein he called Hunter and Tancredo “two crazies…who went nowhere…” in the presidential primaries. [A Mexican view of U.S. immigration debate, By Casey Woods, Miami Herald, February 17, 2008]

Growing, but still tiny, opposition to the new UK laws (part trois)

Small businesses are complaining because the immigration laws in the UK demand their enforcement. If they make a mistake, say, and hire an illegal, there is a ten thousand pound penalty, up from five thousand before the new law was passed.