Immigration curb 'will miss target'
IC Wales Saturday 31st December, 2011
The Government's immigration curbs will not be enough to achieve David Cameron's target of cutting net migration to the "tens of thousands", a think-tank has warned. The best hope of fulfilling the Prime Minister's pledge was for an economic downturn to make the country less attractive to migrants and drive away EU migrants already here, the Insti...
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