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Should the government enact a stricter immigration policy?

In 2021 there were approximately 6.0 million people with non-British nationality living in the UK and 9.6 million people who were born abroad. The UK’s migrant population is concentrated in London. Around 35% of people living in the UK who were born abroad live in London.

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Response rates from 1.5k N16 5 voters.

55%
Yes
45%
No
41%
Yes
35%
No
7%
Yes, but make the process easier for skilled workers
6%
No, and make the process easier for refugees
3%
Yes, and regularly review recent immigrants to ensure they have become productive citizens
2%
No, accept anyone who's not a violent criminal
2%
Yes, strictly screen immigrants for criminal backgrounds
2%
No, the current policy is sufficient
1%
Yes, we currently have too many immigrants

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 @9JWRHL9answered…10mos10MO

No, but the system needs a total revamp. Additionally, the rights of migrants who have already settled in Britain should be secure.

 @9H8GTLZanswered…1yr1Y

Neither a strict nor loose system work as currently envisioned. The best way to decrease illegal immigration is to have a robust, safe and easy to access legal system that will fairly review each applicant. The current system is difficult to access for most migrants forcing them to resort to illegal entry to the UK.

So the government should retool the immigration system as a whole to work better in our modern world.

 @9GZYKWWanswered…1yr1Y

The current one is just fine, they honestly need to stop cracking down on ways around it though as most ways around migration would just make the immigrant an official working British citizen anyway. Examples (Collage visa, Marriage)

 @9GZYJSManswered…1yr1Y

we are all human and bleed the same blood no one shouldn't be able to stop someone from living a decent life

 @9GMTWNCanswered…1yr1Y

Yes in the fact that we should fight down on drug dealers terrorists and people who could be a threat to this nation but we must be a country of immigrants that try hard for us and are patriots

 @9NCVR3Kfrom Virginia  answered…6mos6MO

Yes, make the process easier for honest, hardworking people, strict screening of any criminal background and regularly review recent migrants.

 @9NCCKPHanswered…6mos6MO

Yes, better screening for criminals, easier application for sponsored / skilled workers. But better support for refugees

 @9N8T52Nfrom Georgia  answered…7mos7MO

Yes, for those for no "reason" to be in the UK, don't make it stricter for skilled workers or family of British born Citizens

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Mexican Shuts Down 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Threat

Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border, activists said Saturday.Some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers.The action comes a week after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican products unless the country does more to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States. Sheinbaum wrote on her social media accounts the same day that “migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border.”Migrant rights activist Luis García Villagrán said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of “an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.”The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles (430 kilometers) to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the tired migrants free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico.“They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,” said Bárbara Rodríguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.Rodríguez said by telephone she later caught a bus on her own to Mexico City.In a statement Saturday, the National Immigration Institute said the migrants voluntary accepted bus rides “to various areas where there is medical assistance and where their migratory status will be reviewed,” and said “upon accepting (the rides), they said they no longer wanted to face the risks along their way.”

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