What the papers say: today’s round up of stories from the UK media touching on migration, migrant labour, trafficking and other immigration matters.
Asylum
HIV asylum seeker ‘used fake documents’
BBC News – 17 hours ago
The woman, who lived for several years in Belfast, is seeking to judicially review the decision to deport her by the UK Border Agency. …
Cleric: Don’t imprison asylum kids
Morning Star Online – Paddy McGuffin – 16 hours ago
He said: “In the UK the value and potential of many children is denied through the continued practice of detaining children in immigration detention centres …
Britain now tough on Zimbabwe asylum seekers
Zim Diaspora – 21 hours ago
BRITISH government officials says not all Zimbabwean claiming asylum in the UK need international protection and warned those not a risk that they are …
Immigration
Mother awarded compensation for UK immigration detention mistake
GlobalVisas – Liam Clifford – Feb 1, 2010
A Bolivian woman and her four children have been granted £100000 in compensation for their suffering after wrongly being held in a UK immigration detention …
Migrant Labour
An open door for migrants to work on Olympics (while 200000 British builders …
Daily Mail – Steve Doughty – Jan 9, 2010
A scheme to relax immigration laws to allow tens of thousands of unskilled workers to enter the country to build Olympic sites is being …
Extra foreign workers being considered for Olympics
Telegraph.co.uk – Jan 9, 2010
Research into whether large numbers of extra foreign workers are needed for the Olympic Games has been commissioned by Government immigration advisers. …
Labour isn’t working, for UK workers
The Economic Voice – Jeff Taylor – Jan 9, 2010
With the words of Alistair Darling ringing in our ears about forthcoming cuts and the possibility of a 30% reduction in funding for universities according …
Power plant pay’rip-off’
Mirror.co.uk – Jan 18, 2010
A power station where thousands demonstrated in favour of jobs for Britons was underpaying its foreign workers by more than £1000 a month, a report revealed …
Union anger at Staythorpe power station workers’ pay gap
Times Online – Angela Jameson – Jan 18, 2010
Italian construction workers building a power station in the East Midlands have been paid on average €1300 (£1140) a month less than their British …
Italian firm CMN alleged to have undercut UK pay at Staythorpe plant
The Guardian – Jan 18, 2010
Protesters calling on Alstom to give British workers fair access to construction jobs at Staythorpe power station last year. Photograph: Christopher Thomond …
Row over ‘exploited’ power station staff
The Press Association – Jan 18, 2010
A trade union is planning a protest demonstration in London after news Italian workers on a British power station project have been underpaid by over £1000 …
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants 
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