Sunday, April 29, 2007

UK majority favour 'pathway into citizenship' for illegal immigrants

This report shows that the illegal immigrant issues in England are the same as here and that a similar number (66%) of their citizens think law abiding, hard working immigrants should be allowed to stay and be legalized. DP

Independent Catholic News

indcatholicnews.com: Two out of three (66%) British people believe undocumented migrants who have been in the UK for more than four years and who work and pay taxes should be allowed to stay and not be called illegal.

Two-thirds (67%) also believe asylum seekers should be allowed to work.

The findings come in an ORB poll commissioned by Strangers into Citizens, a broad-based campaign by the country's largest alliance of civic institutions, the Citizen Organising Foundation.

66% of those polled believe that those who work and pay taxes should be allowed to stay. 67% said those who have been here for more than four years and who work should be allowed to stay. The same percentage believe asylum-seekers should be allowed to work.

The poll showed that only 21% think the Government is doing a good job in handling immigration. It also showed that the British people favour a crackdown on benefit cheats, but view asylum seekers and overstayers favourably as long as they work and pay taxes.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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