Facts on immigration
May 16, 2016 12:14 PM
By Antony Hook in Liberal Democrat Voice
Originally published by South Lincolnshire Liberal Democrats
By Antony Hook in Liberal Democrat Voice
Originally published by South Lincolnshire Liberal Democrats
Last Wednesday I went to a very useful presentation by the Samphire Project, a charity based in Dover. Samphire do no promote a policy agenda but communicate accurate information about immigration, detention, asylum and refugees in the UK.
They covered some popular beliefs about migration and compared these to reality. It was hughly educational. I am far from a believer in tabloid panic about migration but I did not know that the number of asylum applications in the UK was only 31,000 last year.
This helpful factual graphic was available to share:
