Immigration and Nationality - Key Issue Series
We go behind the published policy summaries to explain in some detail how UKpopdem goals and policies work together on one of today’s major issues.
1. Immigration and Nationality
The problem
Everyone in Britain, except a few Labour and Lib/Dem MPs and a matching number of bureaucrats, believes immigration is too high; way too high. Even established immigrants themselves think this. Historically, Britain is a nation entirely made up of immigrants, but whereas the past had seen gradual small scale immigration that was absorbed into the British mix, today’s influx of millions over a short period cannot be absorbed. Britain is not the America of two centuries ago with open land and a wild west that needed filling and taming. No, Britain is a small, established, crowded land where every new person from overseas must show they add value to Britain’s interests, rather than take slices out of it. With a forecast population rise to 70million, drastic action is needed.
Control for new immigrants
First, UK Popular Democrats will control and reduce immigration by restricting entry to Britain except for those foreign nationals who can show: a) provable work with registered employees; b) provable study at registered and approved institutions (registered employers and organisations will be responsible for accommodation, health, other services and repatriation); c) provable funds, sponsorship and approved health insurance for those starting a business; d) registered accommodation, funds and health insurance for short stay visitors outside certain nationalities. New EU members will be included in these restrictions and we’ll work to back-track restrictions on EU Eastern Bloc countries. The process will involve a card visa waiver based on the American system, together with supporting documentation and registration database checks. UKpopdems term for this initiative is ‘EASYVISA’.
Existing legal and illegal immigrants
At the same time, foreign nationals already in Britain will begin to be registered in the same way as with ‘EASYVISA’. Organisations linked to foreign national recruitment, education, accommodation and insurance will register en-bloc initially, and these will be repeatedly checked, approved and re-approved locally by a very large expansion of immigration officers and police officers located directly in the community and with local knowledge. Foreign nationals who cannot be successfully registered within a time limit will be detained and deported over the shortest reasonable time. Spouses and children of registered foreign nationals already in Britain, but not individually registerable themselves, are expected to be maintained by their registered spouse rather than the state, and be repatriated together at the end of the registered period. Registered foreign nationals guilty of imprisonable offences will be deported. Registered foreign nationals given permanent residence will be treated differently (see below).
The task of identifying illegals
Maintaining future entry conditions and reducing future immigration will be fairly straight-forward once resources and processes are in place. But finding and separating out illegal and legal immigrants is a huge task. There may be millions of legally registerable foreign nationals already in Britain, and millions of illegal immigrants – no-one knows. Illegal entrants may be unemployed and unemployable, may be armed and deeply involved in crime of all kinds, drugs, slavery, prostitution, violence, trafficking etc. and will be hidden within normal society. Finding, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants and caring for those who have been hurt by them must be treated as the very highest priority and will involve and affect everyone in Britain until the job is done. It means looking into every dark corner, stopping and identifying people at random, relying on information from local people, using undercover investigators and entering suspected premises. A difficult job that must be done while protecting the rights of millions of innocent Britons.
Working conditions
To reduce the need for immigration, UKpopdems will improve employment opportunities for all Britons who are looking for real work. We will give tax benefits to high earners in corporations when they employ British workers, especially those who are unemployed, disabled and disadvantaged. These are special conditions that are expected to be supportable in EU law. In any case, we will make sure that all British citizens who want work will get real jobs in the public sector front-line and in government sponsored companies. Companies that do employ foreign workers will, in future, have to employ for a minimum period and provide accommodation, health insurance, services like pensions and stand guarantor for repatriation. Hiring foreign nationals will no longer be a cheap option at the expense of British workers and British tax-payers.
Permanent residence and British nationality
It must be assumed foreign nationals already in Britain today who have been given permanent residence have it because they deserve and want British nationality. UKpopdems will make British nationality hard to achieve and, therefore, something to treasure. In order to prevent abuses and give a period of reflection to foreign nationals when nationality is eventually achieved then it will be a provisional entitlement for seven years conditional upon behaviour on either side. Likewise, when British nationals marry foreign nationals then British nationality will be an entitlement only after seven years of marriage. New permanent residency must be determined in future by Britain’s needs and by individual foreign nationals being able to fulfil those needs. This will be based on a points system tried and tested already in several other countries.
The route to British nationality
UKpopdems vision for Britain is a single nation with different but valuable cultural accents. That is where individuals are easily identifiable as British in their beliefs and culture but with subtle overtones of their own. Foreign nationals will need a lot of schooling and experiences as they move towards British nationality over seven years. This will include language fluency; involvement in the community; working for integration; historical and geographic understanding; secular law and how this transcends religious law; the workings of Monarchy, government and church; demonstrating tolerant, compassionate and honourable behaviour; financial and personal management; freedom, rights and responsibilities. Readers may think this tough regime more onerous than for existing Britons, but we think our nation should be strengthened by new entrants, not weakened. In any case, UKpopdems education policy makes clear that British children should also be taught against the same principles.
Asylum
Asylum should be sought in the first country of safety that is reached; but if asylum seekers do get to these shores then we are honour bound as a civilised nation, to consider their cases. Those looking for asylum have suffered, are under threat, and may have many physical and psychological problems. What Britain must do is to properly look after their possibly complex needs for health, welfare and education and prevent them being left alone to their own devices in a damaging and difficult first-world experience. UKpopdems feel this can be done better by keeping refugees and asylum seekers together in places of safety, where specialised resources can give support immediately it is required. When conditions in the home country are normalised and danger no longer threatens, then refugees can return home.
1. Immigration and Nationality
The problem
Everyone in Britain, except a few Labour and Lib/Dem MPs and a matching number of bureaucrats, believes immigration is too high; way too high. Even established immigrants themselves think this. Historically, Britain is a nation entirely made up of immigrants, but whereas the past had seen gradual small scale immigration that was absorbed into the British mix, today’s influx of millions over a short period cannot be absorbed. Britain is not the America of two centuries ago with open land and a wild west that needed filling and taming. No, Britain is a small, established, crowded land where every new person from overseas must show they add value to Britain’s interests, rather than take slices out of it. With a forecast population rise to 70million, drastic action is needed.
Control for new immigrants
First, UK Popular Democrats will control and reduce immigration by restricting entry to Britain except for those foreign nationals who can show: a) provable work with registered employees; b) provable study at registered and approved institutions (registered employers and organisations will be responsible for accommodation, health, other services and repatriation); c) provable funds, sponsorship and approved health insurance for those starting a business; d) registered accommodation, funds and health insurance for short stay visitors outside certain nationalities. New EU members will be included in these restrictions and we’ll work to back-track restrictions on EU Eastern Bloc countries. The process will involve a card visa waiver based on the American system, together with supporting documentation and registration database checks. UKpopdems term for this initiative is ‘EASYVISA’.
Existing legal and illegal immigrants
At the same time, foreign nationals already in Britain will begin to be registered in the same way as with ‘EASYVISA’. Organisations linked to foreign national recruitment, education, accommodation and insurance will register en-bloc initially, and these will be repeatedly checked, approved and re-approved locally by a very large expansion of immigration officers and police officers located directly in the community and with local knowledge. Foreign nationals who cannot be successfully registered within a time limit will be detained and deported over the shortest reasonable time. Spouses and children of registered foreign nationals already in Britain, but not individually registerable themselves, are expected to be maintained by their registered spouse rather than the state, and be repatriated together at the end of the registered period. Registered foreign nationals guilty of imprisonable offences will be deported. Registered foreign nationals given permanent residence will be treated differently (see below).
The task of identifying illegals
Maintaining future entry conditions and reducing future immigration will be fairly straight-forward once resources and processes are in place. But finding and separating out illegal and legal immigrants is a huge task. There may be millions of legally registerable foreign nationals already in Britain, and millions of illegal immigrants – no-one knows. Illegal entrants may be unemployed and unemployable, may be armed and deeply involved in crime of all kinds, drugs, slavery, prostitution, violence, trafficking etc. and will be hidden within normal society. Finding, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants and caring for those who have been hurt by them must be treated as the very highest priority and will involve and affect everyone in Britain until the job is done. It means looking into every dark corner, stopping and identifying people at random, relying on information from local people, using undercover investigators and entering suspected premises. A difficult job that must be done while protecting the rights of millions of innocent Britons.
Working conditions
To reduce the need for immigration, UKpopdems will improve employment opportunities for all Britons who are looking for real work. We will give tax benefits to high earners in corporations when they employ British workers, especially those who are unemployed, disabled and disadvantaged. These are special conditions that are expected to be supportable in EU law. In any case, we will make sure that all British citizens who want work will get real jobs in the public sector front-line and in government sponsored companies. Companies that do employ foreign workers will, in future, have to employ for a minimum period and provide accommodation, health insurance, services like pensions and stand guarantor for repatriation. Hiring foreign nationals will no longer be a cheap option at the expense of British workers and British tax-payers.
Permanent residence and British nationality
It must be assumed foreign nationals already in Britain today who have been given permanent residence have it because they deserve and want British nationality. UKpopdems will make British nationality hard to achieve and, therefore, something to treasure. In order to prevent abuses and give a period of reflection to foreign nationals when nationality is eventually achieved then it will be a provisional entitlement for seven years conditional upon behaviour on either side. Likewise, when British nationals marry foreign nationals then British nationality will be an entitlement only after seven years of marriage. New permanent residency must be determined in future by Britain’s needs and by individual foreign nationals being able to fulfil those needs. This will be based on a points system tried and tested already in several other countries.
The route to British nationality
UKpopdems vision for Britain is a single nation with different but valuable cultural accents. That is where individuals are easily identifiable as British in their beliefs and culture but with subtle overtones of their own. Foreign nationals will need a lot of schooling and experiences as they move towards British nationality over seven years. This will include language fluency; involvement in the community; working for integration; historical and geographic understanding; secular law and how this transcends religious law; the workings of Monarchy, government and church; demonstrating tolerant, compassionate and honourable behaviour; financial and personal management; freedom, rights and responsibilities. Readers may think this tough regime more onerous than for existing Britons, but we think our nation should be strengthened by new entrants, not weakened. In any case, UKpopdems education policy makes clear that British children should also be taught against the same principles.
Asylum
Asylum should be sought in the first country of safety that is reached; but if asylum seekers do get to these shores then we are honour bound as a civilised nation, to consider their cases. Those looking for asylum have suffered, are under threat, and may have many physical and psychological problems. What Britain must do is to properly look after their possibly complex needs for health, welfare and education and prevent them being left alone to their own devices in a damaging and difficult first-world experience. UKpopdems feel this can be done better by keeping refugees and asylum seekers together in places of safety, where specialised resources can give support immediately it is required. When conditions in the home country are normalised and danger no longer threatens, then refugees can return home.
posted by United Kingdom Popular Democratic Party at 2:17 pm
