""More than 1.44 million graduates have left the UK to look for more highly paid jobs in countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia.
That far outweighs 1.26 million immigrant graduates in the UK, leaving a net "brain loss" of some 200,000 people.""

It would appear that the tide of immigration, like any other, ebbs and flows according to circumstances. Not exactly the claimed flood!

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""I see claims that over 9 million people living in the United Kingdom are foreign-born if you include the children they produced.""

The children permanent immigrants have are no more immigrants than the children I have. Mine are English, born and bred, and SO ARE THEIRS.

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On the subject of immigrant healthcare professionals, I have some slight inside knowledge of this area, and it is certain that:-

1. No British government department has ever forced a foreign doctor or nurse to immigrate.
2. No customs or other official at sea or air ports has ever prevented a doctor or nurse, immigrant or British, from leaving our shores.
3. Most immigrant healthcare and social care professionals regularly send money home to support their extended families in their countries of origin, and I know personally one or two who virtually support whole villages.

I am in favour of prevention of illegal immigration, but I cannot see the number of legal immigrants we have as anything less than a benefit to this nation.

Ake, and others, make much of their claims that nobody discusses or addresses this question, when what they really mean is nobody enthusiastically joins their proposed witch hunt, except of course the BNP.

If I had to support the agenda of a racist, Fascist, bigot in order to put forward my argument, I'd keep my mouth shut.

Since time immemorial, it has been the habit of the uninformed to blame all the ills of a nation on "Johnny Foreigner", and it always was, and still is, true that the root cause is generally much nearer home.

Don T.