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Old 23-02-2008, 01:35 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Default Illegal immigrants in the UK, England, referendum, nationals, EU, country, nearest

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Originally Posted by BenjaminFranklin View Post
At least your immigrants seem to be legal.
We have at least one million illegal immigrants in the UK (total population of the UK is 61 million) - and most of them are in England (population 51 million).

As we (the UK) are a member of the EU (something the UK never voted to join - no referendum was held before entry) we have to allow the nationals of 26 other EU nations (combined population 420 million) entry into the UK without a visa. Your country, the USA, does not have to (by law) let in the nationals of the 26 nations nearest to you geographically.
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