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Minister raps politicians' silence on immigration�Damian Green said it has been 'impolite' to discuss immigration
�He said ministers' silence has allowed BNP to win votes
By Ian Drury
PUBLISHED: 23:02, 26 August 2012 | UPDATED: 23:25, 26 August 2012

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Critique: Damian Green said ministers have failed to discuss immigration
A minister has criticised the �failure of mainstream politics� to discuss immigration as the Government launched a three-pronged crackdown on illegal migrants.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said for years it had been �almost impolite� for politicians to raise concerns about unprecedented numbers flowing into the UK, a silence which he said had allowed extremist parties, such as the BNP, to harvest votes.
He spoke out as it emerged a university had become the first in the UK to be stripped of its right to educate foreign students.
A UK Border Agency audit found numerous failings at London Metropolitan University, including allowing students to take lessons without valid visas and failing to report that some who had been granted visas, then failed to enrol on or attend courses.
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Theresa May launched a drive to stop abuse of the UK�s marriage laws which have allowed migrants to stay here illegally.

Ministers will change the rules so ceremonies can be delayed for investigations. Last year a vicar was jailed for staging 300 fake weddings - including couples who did not speak the same language.
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Mr Green said the silence around the UK�s doors being thrown open was filled by extremist parties such as the BNP, who then harvested votes from those who were concerned.
Nearly 3.5million immigrants arrived in the UK during Labour�s 13 years in power between 1997 and 2010, with the tide increasing when ten former Soviet Bloc countries joined the European Union in 2004.

Open borders: Mr Green said the immigration policies under Labour were too slack and insisted the coalition get to grips with the situation
Critics say public services, including schools, hospitals and transport, have struggled to cope with the influx, while some employers have been accused of using cheap, or illegal, foreign workers.
In a radio interview with LBC Radio, Mr Green said immigration had been like �turning on a tap� under Labour.
He added: �On top of that, it was almost impolite to talk about immigration and the result of those two things happening at once was the rise of extremist politicians who scapegoated, really unpleasant parties like the BNP.
�You saw that they rose at a time when politicians were afraid to talk about immigration so it�s very important that mainstream, moderate politicians of all parties actual deal with it as a problem.�

Home Secretary Theresa May wants to crack down on the abuse of UK marriage laws
He compared immigration under Labour to �an oil tanker steaming hard in the wrong direction� but insisted the Government was �getting to grips� with the issue.
He spoke out as it emerged a controversial university had become the first in the country to be stripped of its right to educate foreign students.
London Metropolitan University�s licence will be revoked after the Home Office branded it a �threat to immigration control�.
Officials at the UK Border Agency identified so many failings at LMU, which has 2,600 students from outside the European Union, that it could not be trusted to ensure foreign students did not become illegal immigrants.
An audit found the university allowed students to take lessons without valid visas to stay in Britain, did not report that some granted visas failed to enrol on or attend courses, and did not test students to check they could speak English.
Malcolm Gillies, LMU�s vice-chancellor, said the university was �disappointed� by the news.
He said in the past six weeks the university had �done everything it could to demonstrate that it... has worked to remedy past weaknesses�.
Mr Green said a national campaign to crackdown on foreigners who stayed in the UK after their student visas had expired had caught 2,000.

Benefiting: The Immigration minister said that the silence on the immigration issue has led to extremist parties such as Nick Griffin's BNP gaining votes
He said: �We find that a lot of those are people who came here on a student visa, maybe did study for a year or maybe didn�t study at all, but they then hang around after their visa is over and it�s clear that their main intention for coming here was to work. That kind of abuse enrages people.'
Mr Green said: �At the moment a registrar has the duty to marry someone if they can�t see any legal impediment then they have to marry them.
�What we�re going to do is give the powers to say, �Actually I�m not going to marry you, because this doesn�t look like a proper marriage to me�.�
In the third prong of the crackdown, migrants who falsely claim benefits after coming to Britain to work, study or visit face being stripped of welfare payments, according to leaked documents.
Nearly 20,000 people who arrived from outside Europe will be the first to be targeted in the new crackdown which will begin next month.
They will receive a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) telling them to send back a idiot of their passport or residence permit within 28 days, according to the Sunday Telegraph. If they cannot, they must email the UK Border Agency (UKBA) with a range of identifying information.
In total, 370,000 people who came to Britain as visitors, students or workers are now on work-related benefits.

Get out of the EU that gets rid of the legal immigrants and they can be sent home, there should be no illegal immigrants or refugees in our country at all unless they are french/dutch/irish as these are the only countries next to us.
Taking the step of getting out of the EU gives our country not only independance but more work, homes and less load on our schools and hospitals.
After we have left the EU we only have to get rid of the fifth column we have living in this country who want to change our religion and laws to suit themselves and make it easy for them to breed us into a minority, that should be easy to do.

2Anne · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 399 Location: Norfolk

Weasel words and downright lies. Thats the Tory policy on immigration. Keep promising to reduce numbers but actually allow them to rise.
I went into my local market town shopping yesterday and what did I see but several negro families fresh off the boat.
Don't tell me these blacks are working as their board and keep,health and education clearly comes from the British tax payer.
What are they doing here? Why are they allowed in? The whole of Africa is a nightmare so why give some refugee status. We need to close the door firm shut and let the blacks stay in the hell holes they have created.