Make immigrants welcome

In the left-wing liberal daily The Guardian former Minister for Europe Denis MacShane puts the argument for immigration to Britain: "There are 300,000 'non-Brit' sudents at our universities providing an economic lifeline to stretched university finance as well as creating new cohorts of young men and women who, one hopes, will appreciate their stay in Britain and become economic and political friends of Britain when they go home. ... We create new barriers and type-cast 'non-Brits' as the unwelcome other at our peril. ... Britain has to be open for business, for ideas, for people. The immigration debate as defined by the Tories, the [daily newspaper] Daily Mail, [the interests organisation] Migration Watch and the [right-wing extremist] BNP [British National Party] is about shutting down Britain."

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