This govt is dearly beloved. highly skilled coloured people to get lost. bigger EU is in our benefit. Here is the report which shows the percentage of criminals. I can bet that you will not find any skilled immigrant/ work permit holder even international student in this list. I want to say to HO, just wait a bit and see when new EU immigrants will be able to apply for benefits.
Are skilled immigrants interested in unemployment benefits?? no I dont think so..we can earn much higher by working.. unemployment benefits are nothing..
The report and its link is given below.
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Eastern European immigrants carry out tenth of crime
A tenth of all crime in some parts of Britain is now committed by eastern European immigrants, shocking new figures reveal.
Police figures for the worst-affected areas show one in ten of all those arrested have come to the UK from the eight former Soviet states which joined the EU in 2004 - sending a massive wave of 600,000 immigrants flocking to this country.
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The figures emerged as a leaked Whitehall memo warned of an eastern European crime explosion on Britain's streets once Romania and Bulgaria become the latest states to join the EU in two months time.
The secret Cabinet Office paper sent to Tony Blair and senior ministers highlights the risk of a sharp rise in street violence, people-trafficking, prostitution, cash-machine thefts and fraud.
The document claims that Romanian crime gangs are behind an astonishing "80-85 per cent" of cash machine crime in Britain - even before the country joins the EU.
Last night opposition MPs demanded that ministers publish the leaked memo in full, claiming it had vital implications for public safety.
Romania and Bulgaria have a combined population of 30million, and it is estimated that up to 600,000 could head for Britain when they gain free movement within the EU on January 1 - including 45,000 known "undesirables" with links to crime.
Figures published yesterday by Westminster City Council - which is in the frontline of coping with hundreds of thousands of people arriving by coach from eastern Europe each year - showed that in one police division a tenth of arrests in the year to June 2006 - 400 out of 4,000 - involved "A8 Nationals" from the eight most recent EU accession states, with figures doubling year-on-year.
The report warns that "social unrest and anti-social behaviour has massively increased in the Victoria area and crimes, particularly shop-lifting, have increased."
A8 immigrants are "over-represented" in arrests for shoplifting, drunkenness, prostitution and burglary.
The true figures could be far higher, the report claims, as some larger stores "no longer call the police to A8 shoplifters", preferring to use their own security guards to keep known offenders out.
Council chiefs say half of all rough sleepers in central London are also A8 nationals - mostly Polish men - whose dreams of a better life in the UK have turned sour, and who are at risk of drifting into crime, prostitution and drug abuse.
With homeless charities "at breaking point", the council is urging ministers to continue special funding used to help destitute immigrants return home.
Yesterday's leaked Cabinet Office memo will bring little comfort for the Government.
According to the Sun newspaper it was drawn up by immigration minister Liam Byrne and Europe minister Geoff Hoon, and circulated to Tony Blair, Home Secretary John Reid, and the heads of MI5 and Scotland Yard.
The memo states: "There is concern that free movement will encourage people from Bulgaria and Romania to come to the UK, some of whom may be drawn towards organised criminal activities already well established in the UK."
On cashpoint crime, which cost Britons more than £60million last year, the documents states: "80 to 85 per cent of this nationally can be attributed to Romanian organised crime groups."
It goes on: "Aggressive begging, pick-pocketing and bag and mobile phone theft are particular activities which are cause for concern.
"There is a possibility of an increase in A2 [Romanian and Bulgarian] women trafficked into the vice trade."
Last night shadow Home Secretary David Davis wrote to John Reid demanding to know why ministers had failed to mention the leaked assessment in the Commons, adding: "Given the implications for public safety, I formally request that you publish any assessment you have made immediately."
Earlier this month John Reid announced plans to restrict the number of unskilled Romanians and Bulgarians allowed to work in Britain.
Critics claim the plans are meaningless, as all A2 nationals can enter the UK and are allowed to work if they are "self-employed."
Neither Downing Street nor the Home Office would comment on the leak, but a Home Office spokesman said tackling organised crime was a "top priority" for the Government.
