Race relations & Immigration in the UK, one of the most contentious issues in this election along with the economy I believe will be where the main parties stand of fall.
In a nutshell: Race Relations & Immigration
Conservative
Bring down net immigration to 1990s levels.
Ensure only economic migrants who will "bring the most value to the economy" are admitted.
Support Labour’s Points-Based System, but also establish an annual limit for non-EU economic migrants.
Set up a National Border Police Force with the power to stop, search, detain and arrest.
Apply controls on migrants next time new countries join the EU.
Enforce English language test for anyone coming to the UK to get married.
Crack down on student visa abuse.
Support community groups based on their effectiveness in countering poverty and deprivation rather than on the basis of ethnicity or faith.
Improve availability of English language instruction for migrants.
Labour
Continue to tighten the newly-created points-based immigration system.
Support the new Border Agency to guard ports and airports.
Continued funding for electronic border controls to count people in and out of the country.
Expand the Migration Impacts Fund to channel money to parts of the country which take in the most migrants.
Introduced compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals.
Continue to force employers to advertise skilled vacancies in job centres four weeks before appointing a skilled immigrant from outside the EU.
Ensure migrants pass a tough English test before they arrive.
Break the automatic link between staying in the UK for a set period and being able to settle or gain citizenship.
Lib Dem
Create a National Border Force with police powers and reintroduce exit checks at all ports.
Assess the needs and resources of UK regions as part of a points-based immigration scheme.
Support a common EU asylum policy.
Allow asylum seekers to work.
End the detention of children in immigration detention centres.
Increase cost to business of work permits for immigrant employees to pay for training British workers.
Create an "earned route" to citizenship for migrants who have been in the UK for 10 years.
Review social housing allocation policies to ensure fair treatment.
Establish Independent Asylum Agency to improve decision making, and cut appeals.
Introduce "name blanking" policy on job applications to cut discrimination.
Green Party
Open up ways for existing illegal migrants who have been in the UK for three years to become legal.
End detention for asylum-seekers and in particular their children.
No restrictions on asylum-seekers taking work.
Ensure that applications for refugee status are dealt with quickly and fairly, normally within three months, after which applicants should be given equal access to public services until a decision is made.
Give asylum-seekers full welfare benefits.
Ensure that the criminal justice system does not engage in stereotyping.
Take action to address limited representation of ethnic minorities in certain careers.
UKIP
Freeze immigration for permanent settlement for five years.
Aspire to ensure that any future immigration does not exceed 50,000 a year, using a points-based system.
Triple the number of illegal immigrants deported.
"no home no visa" work permits for immigrants.
Force all public employees to carry out their duties with their faces uncovered.
Require people to have uncovered faces in all public buildings and "certain private buildings".
End the "active promotion of the doctrine of multiculturalism" by local and national government.
BNP
Immediate halt to all immigration.
Immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants.
Offer legal immigrants and their descendants financial incentives to return voluntarily to their countries of origin.
End "positive discrimination" schemes that benefit ethnic minorities in the workplace.
Review all grants of residence or citizenship made since 1997.
Bar "foreigners who have not paid into the system" from access to benefits, social housing, state education and pensions.
Reject all asylum applicants who passed through "safe" countries on their way to Britain.
Repeal Race Relations Act and other equality legislation.
Increase funding to the UK Border Agency.
Ban the burka, "non-stunned ritual slaughter" of animals and the building of further mosques.
Has any one party got the right stance on the issue? Or is there a better solution?


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