{"id":21999,"date":"2023-05-27T20:34:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2023-05-27T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:34:20","slug":"what-is-behind-british-political-opposition-to-immigration-tv-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=21999","title":{"rendered":"What is behind British political opposition to immigration?  |  TV programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video duration 27 minutes 30 seconds <\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"video-duration__duration\">27:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Arrivals to the UK are at record levels despite tough government policies.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration is a central issue in British politics, with the current Conservative government taking a hard line against people who want to come and stay in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A minister has described the UK as facing an invasion, comments widely criticized by rights organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Government policies include proposals for processing applications from asylum seekers in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition Labor Party says it also wants to reduce the number of arrivals, but with different plans.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the negative political climate, figures released this week show that net migration is at record levels, with a net inflow of more than 600,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Why is there so much political opposition to immigration in the UK?<\/p>\n<p><strong>presenter<\/strong>: Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p><strong>guests<\/strong>:<br \/>Christa Rottensteiner &#8211; UK Head of Mission, International Organization for Migration<\/p>\n<p>Fizza Qureshi \u2014 CEO, Migrants&#8217; Rights Network<\/p>\n<p>Peter Geoghegan \u2014 Editor-in-Chief, openDemocracy, an independent news website<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/inside-story\/2023\/5\/27\/whats-behind-british-political-opposition-to-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video duration 27 minutes 30 seconds 27:30 Arrivals to the UK are at record levels despite tough government policies. Immigration is a central issue in British politics, with the current Conservative government taking a hard line against people who want to come and stay in the country. A minister has described the UK as facing an invasion, comments widely criticized by rights organisations. Government policies include proposals for processing applications from asylum seekers in Rwanda. The opposition Labor Party says it also wants to reduce the number of arrivals, but with different plans. However, despite the negative political climate, figures&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22001,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions\/22001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}