who could contribute further to the economy, were those eligible under the
proposed green card system given legal residency. Doing so would raise billions of
pounds each year in additional tax revenues, in addition to reducing social harms and
crime.
The official figure the government uses for measuring immigration is annual net
migration (immigrants minus emigrants). This currently stands at 182,000 (from July
2012 – June 2013), a rise of 15,000 on the previous 12 months. However, this is a
crude measure, given that it fails to compare the skill set of the incoming and
outgoing migrants. The Tory-led government wants to reduce net migration to ‘tens
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