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'Queue jumping immigrants' are a myth, says study

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jul 4, 2009 6:07 AM EDT
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The claim that immigrants jump the queue for council houses will be exposed as a myth next week by an exhaustive national survey.

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It will undermine Gordon Brown's promise to let local authorities give "more priority" to people with local links in the allocation of empty properties. His move was widely seen yesterday as a response to the suspicion – successfully exploited in last month's local and European elections by the British National Party – that white families were losing out to new arrivals in obtaining council or housing association homes.

The policy, echoing Mr Brown's ill-fated "British jobs for British workers" slogan, brought warnings from the opposition and immigration groups that the Prime Minister was allowing the BNP to set the political agenda.

The Independent has learned that a two-year investigation has failed to uncover "queue jumping" by immigrants and will describe the belief in its existence as a popular prejudice.

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Reply#1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 6:07 AM EDT
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I wonder if they give a financial aid incentive to the employers of the immigrants as they have in the past in the U.S.

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Reply#2 - Mon Jul 6, 2009 10:09 AM EDT
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