BNP IMMIGRATION BULLETIN
JANUARY 22, 2007


British National Party
www.bnp.org.uk




1. RUSSIA EXPELLING FOREIGN LABOUR

Our congratulations to the government of Vladimir Putin, who is putting
the Russian people first by expelling the hordes of foreign labour,
riddled with criminals and Islamic terrorists, who have taken jobs and
depressed wages in Russia. Russia is still desperately poor, by Western
standards, and struggling to recover from the economic collapse brought
about by the capitalist extremism that followed communism.

http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20070123-
122536-3314r

Thousands of migrant workers from the Caucasus, Central Asia and China
are leaving Russia as the government institutes tough new measures aimed
at cracking down on illegal immigration.
Campaigners against illegal immigration are welcoming the measures,
saying low-paid migrants were distorting the job market and taking work
from Russian citizens. But critics say the moves are ill-advised because
they will drive up retail prices and create a labor shortage that could
hurt Russia's booming economy.
About 12 million people, mostly citizens of impoverished ex-Soviet
republics who do not require a visa to enter the country, are currently
working illegally in Russia, according to analysts.
The new rules set the quota for legal foreign workers at 6 million,
while at same time imposing fines of up to $30,000 on companies that
employ foreigners illegally. Also, as of this month, only 40 percent of
workers in Russia's retail markets are allowed to be foreigners, and
none should be by April 1.

Foreign workers have traditionally dominated in Russia's retail markets,
with people from Azerbaijan, for example, selling fruits and vegetables,
and Chinese selling cheap manufactured goods. Illegal migrants, mostly
from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, are also heavily employed as laborers in
the construction industry.

'We aren't wanted anymore, so I guess we'll be going home,' said Artak,
an Armenian who sells cigarettes and alcohol at a kiosk in central
Moscow. 'I'll be surprised if they can find a Russian who is willing do
this work all day for what they pay me.'

With illegal migrants difficult to track, it's not clear exactly how
many are leaving Russia. But Russian police have been out in force to
enforce the new laws, and signs are that few are taking the risk of
staying.

Many stalls at food markets across Moscow are empty as vendors leave the
country. Some markets have closed altogether, while others have posted
signs looking for vendors with Russian citizenship. Russian television
has shown images of empty markets in the Far East, where Chinese
stallholders have fled across the border.

A Russian union organizer who works with illegal migrants in the
construction industry said companies are throwing thousands of workers
off job sites in fear of being prosecuted.

'You used to be able to get off the plane and immediately find work. Now
everyone wants to get back on planes to go home,' said the organizer,
who did not want his name used because he worries that he'll be targeted
by authorities.

The new measures appear to be a response to a surge in ethnic
nationalism and opposition to immigration that has occasionally erupted
in violence. In August, a bomb tore through Moscow's Cherkizovsky
market, killing 13 persons, mostly illegal workers from Central Asia.

Racist attacks have grown dramatically, with at least 53 persons killed
last year in racially motivated assaults, according to the human rights
group Sova.

Last fall, President Vladimir Putin denounced 'ethnic gangs' that
control Russia's markets and called for regulation to protect 'the
native Russian population.'

Alexander Belov, the head of the influential Movement Against Illegal
Immigration, welcomed the new rules as 'a step in the right direction.'
But he said Russia needs to go further and impose full visa requirements
on 'people from poor countries who take jobs from Russians and give
nothing back to our society.'

Russia's population is shrinking by 750,000 people a year and has fallen
below 142 million due to low birth rates and high mortality rates,
especially among working-age men. There are fears the new measures could
lead to an economic slowdown if foreign workers cannot be replaced.

'Most of the migrants working in Russia are doing jobs Russian citizens
don't want,' said Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Migration and
Law Network, which assists immigrants.

She said the measures are little more than a populist move ahead of
elections to the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, later
this year. This could backfire, she added, because the crackdown may
also drive up costs in retail markets, hurting Russia's poor.

The average Russian earns only about $5,000 a year, and low-income
Russians do most of their shopping in retail markets. 'This is going to
damage not only migrant workers but also all the people who won't be
able to afford to pay more for fruits, vegetables and meat,' she said.

The government appears to be hedging its bets promising that prices will
not rise and that the April 1 deadline for foreigners to be banned from
markets could be extended.

'The laws are aimed at regulating the normal functioning of markets and
not at reducing the quantity of goods traded,' Economic Development
Minister German Gref said in televised comments. 'If we see any threat,
the time limit can be extended by a government decision.'






2. CONSULTANTS FAKE VISA APPLICATIONS FOR INDIANS

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ahmedabad/Consultants_fake_pap
ers_for_visa-seekers/articleshow/1259577.cms

Don't earn enough? Then just fake it. All those desperate to get a visa,
but fall short of requirements now make a beeline to unscrupulous
consultants ready to fake papers for a fee.

Fraudsters in the form of chartered accountants, private companies and
immigration consultants are conjuring up fake pay slips and income tax
returns to get you points on the visa chart.

Even if you do not earn a single paisa, it will cost you just Rs 50,000
to show visa authorities an annual income of Rs 5 lakh.

Neeta Parmar (name changed) almost lost her chance of studying in the
US, when her father faked tax returns on an income of over Rs 20 lakh.

Her visa was rejected. "She later obtained a bank loan, apologised to
the US immigration department in writing, then obtained a visa," says
her consultant, advocate Sudhir Shah. Visas such as UK's Highly Skilled
Migrant Programme (HSMP) and US's Student Visa require a certain number
of points for eligibility.

Under HSMP, for example, it takes 75 points to get you a visa, the
criteria for points being age, educational qualifications and annual
income.

If you are a PhD under 27 years of age (both get you maximum points
under respective criteria), you score 70 points.

For the remaining points, you need a minimum income £ 3,000 (around Rs
2.58 lakh). "Not many are PhDs or under 27 years.

It's easier to fake your income to get the remaining points," says UK
immigration consultant Sandeep Jani. That's exactly what happened when
this correspondent went as a desperate HSMP aspirant to a top consultant
— a chartered accountant — on CG Road.

A bachelor's degree and 28 years of age totalled only 40 points. To get
the remaining 35 points, an income of Rs 5.4 lakh became essential. Can
be done, said our man.

"I can create your presence on the payroll of a company, get you a pay
slip for Rs 5.4 lakh and even file your tax returns," he said.

I-T returns and pay slip are the two most important pieces of evidence
given to the immigration department. His charges: Rs 1.5 lakh plus Rs
50,000 extra "for finding an 'employer".

"That isn't too difficult," he added, "there are several companies who
need to 'adjust' their taxes at this time of the year."

This consultant's modus operandi entailed paying actual tax on the fake
income. "That way it's foolproof," he said.

However, there are consultants who can manage to waive that too for some
more money. Frauds of this kind prompted the UK immigration department
to change its rules last month for HSMP. The objective: "To ensure
greater transparency".

"Rules that were unwritten so far are now on paper, such as, the use of
third party verification to cross-check documents," said UK immigration
consultant Prasanna Acharya.





3. IMMIGRATION TERROR LIST FIASCO

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007030478,00.html

Foreign terrorists are free to enter Britain because immigration bosses
are banned from seeing an EU “wanted” list of suspects.

Top cops have told MPs national security is at risk because of the
loophole.

Only 15 EU countries have access to the Schengen Information System,
which has a database holding 15million entries, including terrorists.

Suspects who show up on the computer can be detained or turned away in
France, Germany, Spain or Italy. But there is no way British officials
can check on the database.

The UK was blocked from using it after failing to fully join the scheme
at its 1995 launch.

The security lapse emerged after the Home Office failed to log names of
27,000 Britons convicted abroad on police computers.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “There is no reason why we can’t
cooperate with our allies and have this information.”

Last night the Home Office said talks were “ongoing”. A spokesman added:
“The issue is being considered as part of a review of Criminal Records
Bureau checks.

“It will form part of the inquiry into the cases of Britons convicted
abroad.”






4. CANARY ISLANDS A BACK DOOR INTO BRITAIN

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/20/ncanary1
20.xml

Illegal immigrants heading for Europe via the Canary Islands pose a
"potential threat" to the UK, according to an internal Home Office memo.

More than 30,000 people completed the often-deadly boat journey to the
Spanish territories from Africa last year, despite increased EU patrols,
in a bid to get to mainland Spain.

But the briefing paper suggests more are coming from English-speaking
nations and so could head for the UK.

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And it warns that unless the routes are closed down they may start to be
exploited by organised criminals such as people traffickers.

It says: "Notwithstanding that the short term impact on the UK is likely
to be minimal there are developments which are of concern from the UK's
point of view and which may pose a potential threat in the medium to
long term.

"The nationality profile of the irregular migrants arriving in the
Canary Islands is starting to change. As the routes have been displaced
southwards they are becoming much more accessible geographically to the
Anglophone countries in the region - Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra
Leone and Liberia - whose populations do have much closer links to the
UK and to varying degrees are traditional source countries for irregular
migration to the UK.

"In addition this route is much more affordable and quicker than the
alternative air or Libya/Italy routes. Indeed increasing numbers of
Gambians have already been seen arriving in the Canaries, though the
recent co-operation agreement between Spain and Gambia has resulted in
many of them being repatriated."

The paper, obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act,
also warns that the recent arrival of Sri Lankan and Pakistani nationals
indicates that traffickers from further afield are also exploring this
route.

"Both countries are of course significant sources of irregular migrants
coming to the UK.

"Earlier this year there was a spate of incidents involving Chinese
nationals using the Canaries as an air transit point to access the UK."

The Home Office said the Government was committed to preventing illegal
immigration into the UK and the European Union.

But the Refugee Council said a "significant proportion" of those risking
their lives to make the crossing were genuinely fleeing war and famine.






5. SCOTLAND BEING FLOODED WITH ECONOMIC MIGRANTS

http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.1136957.0.
largest_increase_in_economic_migrants_in_a_decade_as_40_000_register_for
_work.php

The number of migrant workers registered for work in Scotland has risen
dramatically in the past two years, with more than three-quarters of the
increase coming from the European accession countries.

An analysis by labour research consultancy Slims shows that there were
morethan40,000migrantworkers registered for National Insurance, a rise
from 15,000 two years earlier.

The figures do not include those working in the "black economy" who have
not registered to pay National Insurance, but they do include students
at Scottish universities and colleges. Once they have registered for
work, migrant workers can move on to other parts of the UK or outside
the UK so the registration numbers are only a snapshot of what is
happening in the labour market.

continued...

The influx of new workers and their families has helped to reverse
Scotland's population decline; 2004 and 2005 saw the first substantial
increase in the country's total population for many years. But Slims, an
independent consultancy funded largely by public sector bodies, warns
that the 2004 level of immigration is not sustainable in the longer
term.

The report concludes: "In other words, the economy is unlikely to be
able to create enough jobs to employ both the new arrivals as well as
the existing population if immigration were to be maintained at 2004
levels for a decade or so."

Nigel Guy, the manager of Slims, said: "The number of migrant workers
will mean problems for specific sectors in particular areas such as the
hospitality industry. It means that some indigenous workers may not be
able to get into the jobs market. These are issues which policy makers
may have to address. But over the longer term it's good for industry
overall, and overall I'm sure it's good for the economy."

However, the research shows that, contrary to some suggestions, Scotland
actually has a smaller proportion of new migrants than the UK as a
whole. Just 6% of National Insurance registrations have been in
Scotland, whereas the country represents 8.25% of the UK's total
population.

The Slims report says: "It is little more than two years since the
expansion of the EU produced the most rapid influx of migrant workers
seen in the UK for many decades. From January 2007 the EU grew yet again
with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria."

The Slims report says it is hard to draw longer-term conclusions on the
effect of migrant workers on the Scottish economy, but it suggests: "A
gradual decline in the level of immigration from the A8 countries the
eight eastern European nations that joined the EU in 2004 is perhaps the
most likely scenario over the next few years. But it may be that the
number of newcomers to the job market in Scotland stabilises at a higher
level than it was before 2004."

The figures show that the migrant workers are unevenly spread across the
country: the biggest numbers of National Insurance (NI) registrations
are in Glasgow and Edinburgh; while per head of population the biggest
proportion is in Aberdeen and the Highlands. Despite some perceptions,
Glasgow has attracted little more than the average for the rest of the
country.

But while migrant workers from the eight accession countries are more
evenly spread, NI registrants from the rest of the world are
predominantly found in Scotland's four major cities.

The report says: "The total number of NI registrations as a proportion
of the workforce is small. Arrivals from anywhere outside the UK has
amounted to 1% of the workforce in each of the past two years. A8
arrivals have accounted for less than half of this total.

"However, since immigrants are unevenly spread across the occupations,
they have a much more substantial impact on some sectors of the economy,
such as hospitality and agriculture."

Almost half of the migrant workers from the eight accession countries
work in agriculture and hospitality. The report shows that one in eight
takes jobs in food-processing, while a further 15% work in what the
report describes as administration and business services, mainly
recruitment agencies.





6. ISLAM'S HISTORY OF FORCIBLE IMMIGRATON

Here's an article from India that makes an important point: immigration
is a weapon of conquest, and Islam has a long record of this.

http://desicritics.org/2007/01/17/070633.php

Whenever there are terrorist attacks against west, there is a tendency
in the Muslim world to interpret that these attacks against western
societies as a natural backlash of the colonization of the Islamic world
by Europeans for almost two centuries. I was reminded of this argument
again, when I recently watched the video of the discussion of the noted
secular Muslim activist Wafa Sultan on Al-Jazeera TV where an Egyptian
Muslim cleric presenting this claim asking her, who colonized whom,
whether UK colonized Egypt or Egypt colonized UK.

European colonization began with the discovery of America by Christopher
Columbus in CE 1492 and this was a unique historical event with
political, cultural, military and religious aspects that lasted for half
a millennium and the consequences of this well discussed and much
written chapter of history continues to produce more and more related
discussions and of course, will cause more and more related events in
the future as well.

European colonization had been in two different ways, one that happened
in Americas and in Australia, where the indigenous population was
systematically oppressed and were forced to flee from their own land and
the Europeans migrating to theses lands. This was the
transculturalization of a region wherein the indigenous people of these
lands finally lost their existence and the United States and Canada and
even the geographically east Australia and New Zealand collectively
being known as being part of the western civilization, there was a
cultural destruction.

In the first case there were large scale immigration from Europe to
Americas and Australia and the ethnicity of the majority changed and
that was the reason why these continents are now regarded as being part
of the west. But indigenous masses of Latin-American don't claim that
they are part of the west, but express their identity whenever possible,
even as the evil of colonialism still hunts them. Any way western
colonialism could not make the natives a part of its own civilizations
or west had no such intention.

Another way was what happened in Africa and Asia where the indigenous
people were relatively not forced to flee their lands and there was no
large scale immigration from Europe to these two continents but the
Europeans just ruled over them so that the cultural and social identify
of the people of Africa and Asia were not much affected. These regions
continue to be part of the pre colonial civilizations to which they
actually belonged. This was the way that the Islamic world too had been
colonized by Europeans, there were only political and military effects
and the culture and religion of the so called Islamic world were
unchanged, there was relatively no cultural destruction.

The spread of Christianity in Europe too had its own cultural impacts,
but the people of Europe are not unaware or ashamed of their pre
Christian pagan past but they are proud of it. Admittedly, paganism in
Europe was heavily struck down by Christianity from the very day that
Emperor Constantine the great decriminalized that religion in his
portion of the empire in CE 313 and later in the entire Rome that he
reunified in CE 324, the empire that had been partitioned by Diocletian,
his predecessor.

Pagans were subject to strong persecution, pagan temples were either
destroyed or were converted to Christian churches, Pagan books and
literature were burned. The destruction of this European or classic
Paganism was imminent as the imposition of Christianity over Europe was
very rapid given its support from the successive rulers and was finished
by the time of Emperor Justinian-I. Historians may go ahead with their
debate on the intensity of the influence of paganism on Christianity, as
argued by Edward Gibbon, but the destruction of European paganism as a
religion and a culture was almost total.

Europe, where Christianity flourished, was the seat of two other
prominent civilizations, Greek and Roman. The Greeks embraced
Christianity, but only as another religion, they haven't lost their
logistic, cultural and civilization identity and they find esteem
dignity in the civilization that existed before the introduction of
Christianity.

The Roman civilization may no longer be there as it had been known as it
has now been divided into different cultures like Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese. This was a natural process as Latin as a language began
dying and new languages derived from Latin. Modern people of these
cultures find no reason to be ashamed of the that much celebrated pre
Christian pagan Roman civilization to which they once belonged.

The justification that many Muslim intellectuals find for Islamic terror
is that it is a result of the long political oppression of the Islamic
world by the west in the colonial period and they allege the west of
being egotist ethically, culturally and intellectually. But not only
Muslim society was the victim of western colonialism, so were the Hindu
(Indian), African and scenic (indo-china) societies. None of these
societies have produced terrorism and the contemporary rise of Hindu
nationalism in India can not be viewed as a product of western hegemony.

When the term Islamic world is used, one has to be aware of the fact
that the so called Islamic world is because of an Islamic colonialism,
stronger and powerful than that of the west. A careful analysis will
conclude that Islam was the greatest colonizer of all time and the most
egotist ideology ever known to humanity.

This is where we need to look back on the spread of Islam. Islam spread
to all the territories that it conquered. Not only did the indigenous
population of these conquered countries embrace Islam for one reason or
another, but the cultural, social and intellectual aspects of these
lands were subject to a concrete transformation without immigration.
Finally these civilizations became extinct and became known as part of
the Islamic civilization even while the ethnicity of the people of these
lands did not change.

The shores of all the rivers referred to as the cradles of civilization
,except the Huang-He-Yangtze in China which was not subject to Muslim
conquest, the Tigris-Euphrates in modern day Iraq, the Nile in Africa,
the Indus in the Indian subcontinent have all lost their connection to
their profound inheritance. The Muslim masses on the banks of these
rivers are either unaware or ashamed of their great pre Islamic
heritage.

What happened with Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Egypt was even worse -
that Arabic, the language of Islam, was forced upon them and that these
regions lost even their languages, Egyptian in the case of Egypt and
Sumerian in the case of Mesopotamia. Even in this case, the Indus valley
or the modern Pakistan is only a partial exception, as Urdu which was
not the tongue of the land but one that was born out of Islamic conquest
is the official language. This was a cultural holocaust.

The most notable point here is that, the invaded masses who embraced
Islam are totally in the dark about their pre-Islamic heritage and are
ashamed of the same, which did not happen with the people colonized by
the west. At least as far as the non Arabs conquered by Islam are
concerned, for them Islam was not just a submission to Allah, it was a
submission to Arab language, Arab culture and Arab tradition and a
submission to fight for the Arab cause, Arab superiority and Arab
Imperialism. Whereas communities colonized by westerners defended this
conquest later, because of the unique colonial nature of Islam, people
conquered by Islam found a cause in being conquered and the conquered
joined the conqueror in fighting for this cause, triggering a chain
reaction of Muslim conquests.

No colonized people glorify and iconize invaders or alien rulers as
their heroes but Muslims do. We can not imagine Native Americans
glorifying Columbus or Indians of the subcontinent glorifying the
British or Russians or Ukrainians glorifying Genghis Khan. The best
example of this peculiar psyche would be that of Invaders like Mahmud of
Ghazni and Muhammed Ghuri who attacked the people of the Indus valley.

Even though they looted their properties, massacred their forefathers,
gang raped their foremothers and enslaved them, they are the heroes of
Pakistan and its people. Finally, this glorification and iconization
turned so ridiculous where Pakistan naming one of its missiles after
Muhammed Ghuri and Afghanistan opposing this saying that Pakistan has no
claim over Afghan heroes and that only peaceful concerns may be named
after them!

That the invaders glorify the invasion is understandable, but here, in
the case of Islam, both the invader and the invaded glorify these bloody
invasions. Western colonialists did try to brainwash the natives through
the education system that they introduced, but even this kind of attempt
was not very effective

Islam as an Identity of the invader was so potent that it has been able
to brainwash and indoctrinate the indigenous people to that extent that
they find pride in being invaded. This indoctrination was clever enough
to cleanse out all these people had in their memories about their past,
so that for them their history and civilization began only with this
invasion.

Along with the western factor, Islam too has been a threat to the
social, cultural, linguistic and religious identities of the colonized
societies. But the hands and arms of Islam have even been mightier than
that of the west, as far as the indigenous people of the lands invaded
by Islam, from Morocco to Pakistan to Indonesia are concerned, and they
consider themselves to be a part of the Islamic world. The people of the
territories ruled by west are not treated, or they don't treat
themselves as being a part of the western world.

Islamic colonialism was so horrendous and destructive when compared to
the characteristics of western colonialism, as it was not only something
political or militarily but something more influential, cultural,
religious and psychological too. To be more exact, even the one fifth of
the humanity which identifies itself as Muslims is a product of this
ultra-colonial nature of Islam.

The ethical, cultural and intellectual egotism of the west may be a
fact, but such egotism and hegemony are even deeper for Islam. This has
always been apparent in its intolerant nature towards other cultures and
religions; the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas is a recent example.
This will be apparent again, if Islam becomes more powerful than the
west, politically or militarily.
















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