....The problem with family-reunion immigration is not that the partners are an economic burden on the country, although they are (at least in the short term, while having children, although the IPPR concluded that most non-Western immigration was essentially a burden). The real evil is that nothing is better suited towards forming ghettos.
After Jack Straw abolished the Primary Purpose Rule in June 1997, annual marriage-based immigration from south Asia doubled within five years. By 2001 nearly three-quarters of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi children had a mother from abroad (according to MigrationWatch). And almost everyone marries someone from their own ethnic group. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
