1,650 NEW MIGRANTS INVADE UK EVERY DAY
Immigration hit record levels


Friday August 22,2008

Immigration has hit record levels with 1,650 people moving to the UK every day.

The number of foreigners living here has risen by 1.1million in three years – enough to fill a city the size of Birmingham.

More than one person in 10 now living in the UK is foreign born. The number of people leaving the country has also reached unprecedented levels and nearly half of them are native Britons.

Statisticians had expected net immigration to have fallen by now but so huge is the influx that instead it is continuing to rise.

Our society is being fundamentally changed against the clearly expressed wishes of the public

Soaring numbers of births to foreign mothers are adding to the population explosion. Figures also show there are now more pensioners in the UK than children for the first time. The startling statistics led to calls last night for an annual limit on immigrant numbers.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said: “Our society is being fundamentally changed against the clearly expressed wishes of the public.â€