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UK News 11-02-2005
who: Home secretary Charles Clarke
what: Says migrant workers will have to pass a skills test to enter Britain
when: Monday
snippet: "A two-tier system will allow only skilled workers to settle, with the unskilled expected to stay for only short periods of time and then leave," says The Times. "Even skilled workers will have to pass tests in English language and knowledge of British life before being allowed to stay." Elsewhere in immigration news, The Guardian reports that 1,029,000 people have entered Britain from the eight new Eastern European EU states since May, including 90,000 who intended to stay for more than three months The Telegraph reports that Spain is offering an amnesty to a million illegal immigrants; and in The Independent, Peter Popham reports from the Canary Islands, where Spanish authorities found 227 illegal immigrants adrift off the coast at the weekend. [... more]
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