Almost 2.5 million unemployed- yet foreign ‘graduates’ get work visas
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News
There was something of a song and dance last week following a report by Professor David Metcalf, Chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee, and the Government’s most senior immigration advisor. What there is to advise about, I don’t quite see, given that we all know that the immigration situation has been careering out of control for years and the only sensible thing to do now is to slam the door shut.
Illustrating clearly just how out of touch with the situation the government is, Professor Metcalf has expressed ‘stunned’ concern about is the number of colleges that are accredited to hand out degrees. A foreign student obtains a degree from one of the ‘lower tier colleges and this allows a non EU student a 2 year UK work visa. Such degrees include such erudite subjects as acupuncture and circus skills. What a joke!
But it gets worse! Apparently, as graduates, they are then designated as ‘highly skilled migrants.’ This entitles them to remain here even if they don’t have a job! 42 000 students were granted 2 year visas last year.
And the solution? Well, according to the Migration Advisory Committee, foreign students could be forced to find a job after graduating before earning the 2 year visa. In other words, the government would be overtly encouraging foreigners to take up jobs from the British labour market and then rewarding them for so doing with residential status. It’s just plain nuts!
The BNP advocate ‘British Jobs for British Workers.’ What we need to look at next is British college places for British students. We have a substantial and diverse population and we need to give priority to educating and training those who already reside here so that they can take up the jobs that this country needs doing. As it is, we have one sector of society who are unemployed, inadequately trained and caught in the benefits trap. And then we have foreign students coming over here and taking degree courses which enable them to gain the residency status to take up jobs that our own people should be doing.
Obviously, we can’t remedy the skills deficiencies of the long-term unemployed over night. But what we do need is to get our priorities straight and put our own people first when it comes to both employment and education and training. And we need to stop paying people to stay at home and do nothing.
