More Immigration Insanity Across the Pond

The many benefits of membership in that great anti-democratic eperiment in socialism that is the EU are being keenly felt yet again in Britain. EU law, specifically Directive 2204/38/EC, requires member countries open their borders to all EU citizens. Yet more and more, the immigrant chickens are coming home to roost in the UK. This from the Guradian:

The debate over immigrant children in Britain's schools was reignited this weekend after the country's leading headteachers told The Observer that rising numbers of foreign pupils are putting some schools near breaking point because they do not have the resources to cope.

Members of the highly respected National Association of Headteachers will this week tell Parliament that the issue is starting to change the culture of some schools. Some heads said the issue was 'out of control'.

He said that while schools could absorb one or two foreign pupils, some were struggling with the sudden large increase in the numbers of children from overseas: 'If you get a sudden influx not only will it strain or even break the resources of the school, it will also change the culture of that school.'

Clarissa Williams, head of Tolworth Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames, south London, said she received £1,300 a year from the government to cover the costs of teaching English to foreign pupils but was having to spend £30,000 of her own budget to keep pace.

'These children just appear from nowhere,' Williams said. 'They turn up on your doorstep and if you have space you have to make the necessary arrangements. It places a significant additional strain on budgets.'

On Tuesday the association will tell the House of Lords economic affairs committee that education budgets have not kept pace with the increase in the number of pupils for whom English is a second language, or not spoken at all, who have entered Britain since the European Union expanded three years ago.

The ethnic minority achievement grant, the main funding stream for schools, has increased marginally from around £160m to just under £180m since 2005, when countries from the former eastern bloc joined the EU. But over the past three years, hundreds of thousands more migrant children have entered Britain's education system.

Figures compiled by the Institute for Public Policy Research think-tank show that, since EU expansion, there are now some 12,900 children from the Czech Republic in British schools, 30,400 from Lithuania, 170,000 from Poland and 28,700 from Slovakia. 'It's important all children are welcomed into schools and that they feel partt of the community,' Brookes said. 'But there is a lot of pressure on school capacity to absorb these additional children.' . . .

Read the entire article. It is disconcerting that even in the face of ever increasing immigration related problems, from the explosion in crime to the massive pressure on infrastructure, criticism of immigration is political suicide. Indeed, the Labour government refuses to alter even non-EU immigration. This refusal to acknowledge and adress the issue will likely have dire consequences indeed. The population of Britain is 61,000,000 today, but, between mass immigration and the high birthrate of immigrant families, Britain's population is on pace to explode. This today from the Telegraph:

The population of the United Kingdom could soar to 90 million by the middle of the century, government statisticians will say this week.

Such an increase, driven by immigration and a rising birthrate, would add 50 per cent to today's population.

It would be the equivalent of building a new city the size of Sheffield every year and would put extreme pressure on housing, transport and public services. . . .

Read the article here. And now we learn that half a million British born workers are no longer employed since the recent influx of immigrants, many of whom are now taking a good drink from the UK's generous welfare tit:

Experts admitted the fall in British-born workers was, in part, due to an ageing population but said the defining reason was Labour's relaxed immigration policies. Other ONS figures last week revealed that a growing number of Eastern Europeans are also claiming benefits. Nearly 80,000 have been approved for child-benefit payments and 45,000 are to receive tax credits.

Read the article here. The "experts" fail to note that Britain is also experiencing massive emigration of its native population. How long will it be before anglo-saxon England is but a memory among the chattering classes? Having destroyed the fabric of the nation, they are the one's retiring to the countryside of France to wile away their remaining years, still believing in the multicultural philosophy and still secure in their moral superiority.