If you take a look at the comments below the article there is quite a lot of feeling about this story. I was wondering what British Muslims felt about this - not because you're the immigrants they're talking about (it's talking about immigration in the last 10 years), but because I'm interested to hear a different point of view.

"Labour's “open door” immigration policy knowingly risked allowing dangerous people to settle in Britain unchecked, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times.
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Officials agreed to fast-track 337,000 applications with minimal checks. This led to a rapid rise in immigration. In 1999, 170,000 visas were granted; by 2002, this had risen to 300,000.
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As officials were being ordered to take risks, several potentially dangerous people entered the UK. In late 2001, more than 20 Taliban, who had fled from Afghanistan after their defeat by American and British forces, were allowed to stay in the UK.
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The documents indicate that, far from being a mistake, there was a deliberate policy — apparently endorsed at the highest level in the Home Office — to promote concerted risk-taking by immigration staff whose job was to decide whether non-European Union migrants applying to work, study or marry in Britain were genuine.
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When an FoI application was made to see their exchanges, ministers argued that the material was exempt from disclosure because policy advice given by officials to their political masters should remain confidential.
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But in March this year, Thomas ruled: “The public interest in favour of maintaining the exemption does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure.
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The government reluctantly conceded, placing the documents on an obscure part of the department’s website, apparently in the hope that nobody would notice.
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Why did new Labour secretly open Britain’s borders, while pretending to control the numbers under its so-called “managed migration” policy?
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[..Andrew Neather's] claim was that uncontrolled mass immigration had been a deliberate, covert policy to change the country’s demographics.
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But Labour’s core vote, the white working class, were drawn to the BNP at the resulting pressure on jobs, homes and schools. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6907991.ece

"BUT then who would do the jobs that no one else would do"

There are plenty of people on the dole who could do them. Change the benefits system and make them work. It's a wierd system that says the best thing to do is let it's own people rot in their own decay and pay them for doing it, and at the same time import foreign workers to do all the scummy work.
"That's interesting; but what would you say if the shoe was on the other foot concerning Britains seeking to either settle down in say a nice tropical country.. "

Erm, Australia, America, Canada. They don't let anyone in, you have to meet their immigration requirements. I know educated people who want to go to these places, but can't because they don't have the skills specified.

I would totally expect every country to only let in the people who would benefit their country, to do jobs that their nationals couldn't do.

The shoe *is* on the other foot....

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