October 1, 2008 - By BNP News

Around 4,000 so-called ’short-term immigrants’ arrive in Britain every day and those who stay to work have increased by more than a quarter, official figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.

A short-term immigrant is someone officially defined as staying for less than 12 months — most commonly here for work under immigration provisions which allow foreign nationals, particularly from Commonwealth countries, to work in the UK for up to two years at a time.

Earlier, other figures revealed that the number of British nationals in work in the UK has dropped by a quarter of a million. Migrants have taken up to 80 percent of new jobs created since 1997.

The number of short-term migrants in Britain at any one time has also shot up to nearly 300,000. At the same time, far more Britons are leaving to work or visit overseas than foreigners arriving here.

The figures come two weeks after a former Archbishop of Canterbury warned spiralling immigration could spill over into violence on Britain’s streets if not addressed.

A total of 1,437,000 short-term migrants arrived in the 12 months to June 2006, the Office for National Statistics figures show. That was the equivalent of 3,937 people arriving each day and a 15 percent rise on the year before. It was also a 28 percent increase on 2004, showing the impact EU expansion to Eastern Europe had on in-flows of temporary migrants to Britain.

The document estimated 291,000 migrants were in the country at any one time during the year to June 2006 — a rise of 12 percent on the previous year.

In a separate, stark message the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, also warned that the “glue that binds our society together is weakening” and called for a cap on the numbers coming into the UK.

He said it would be arrogant to assume concerns over immigration could not spill over into violence as in other countries.

The former head of the Anglican Church also said it was not racist to raise concerns over large-scale immigration or question what it will mean to be British in the future.

* Almost two million new homes will have to be built just to cope with the immigrant influx, according to figures released by MigrationWatch UK, earlier this year.

It means 263 houses must go up every day until 2026 — the equivalent of five cities the size of Birmingham during the next 18 years.

Four in 10 of all new homes will go to new migrants, a report by Migrationwatch UK claims. Chairman Sir Andrew Green said immigration levels “are 25 times higher than at any time in nearly a thousand years of our history.”

He added: “The economic ‘benefits’ are trumpeted by the Government at every opportunity.”

“But very little is ever heard of the costs, such as the huge addition to infrastructure requirements in order to build the millions of homes required for new immigrants.” The extra pressure on schools, transport and health services “will have massive ramifications for everyone living in this country for decades to come,” he added.

The Migrationwatch report also attacked what it calls the Government’s “four favourite fibs” on the benefits of immigration. It dismisses claims that migrants are needed to fill 600,000 job vacancies — because around 900,000 people have come since 2001 but the vacancies remain the same.