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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: 565,000 immigrants to UK last year More than 1,500 immigrants arrived in Britain every day last year, official data showed. The Office for National Statistics said 565,000 people came to live here for at least a year during the course of 2005. Meanwhile, 1,000 people a day left the UK to live abroad - an estimated 380,000 - half of whom were British citizens. It means the country's net population rose by 500 a day, or 185,000 during the 12 months. The ONS's Total International Migration figures said the 565,000 estimate was 17,000 fewer than the 2004 figure, but added: "This still continued the overall trend of high in-migration into the UK that began in the late 1990s." The largest group of migrants were people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, who accounted for two-thirds of net in-migration. However, the largest single nationality coming to Britain was Poles. The number of people arriving for at least a year from the eight former Soviet Bloc countries which joined the EU in May 2004 - including Poland - increased by 50% to 80,000 last year, it said. "This increase can be explained by 2005 being the first full calendar year following the date of accession," said the ONS report. The net in-migration figure for the eight former Communist states was 64,000. However, these figures did not appear to tally with previous Home Office data on arrivals from the eight eastern European states, which said 205,000 came here to work in 2005.
Poster Comment: Immigration is a problem in the UK where they have a Bilderberg Prime Minister Tony Blair. Years ago I remember reading an article on what they pay the unemployed in England on the same day I was looking at my friend's travel guide to London. All I needed to know about the country was that an unemployed man received less in benefits for a week than it cost for a 7 day all zone subway pass. So how is he supposed to look for work? He stays in his neighborhood which dramatically cuts his economic prospects. And bringing in 565,000 legals and who knows how many illegals forces his wages even lower. But that is the point. Less for them. More for us.
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