Letter: Hypocrisy of immigration policy

Letter: The hypocrisy of the Prime Minister's announcement that the government intends to clamp down on immigration is breathtaking.

His party promoted unchecked immigration. Anyone who questioned that policy was silenced by being branded a racist, but now, while every other aspect of our lives is governed by strict and stifling regulations, foreign workers are exploited and worked like slaves.

Meantime, unemployment and the benefits bill for our own citizens climbs exponentially, but this is only legal immigration I speak of. No-one actually knows how many have arrived in the past 12 years and overstayed their visas.

Without the immigration authorities rampaging around like the SS, it would be impossible to find them and enforce repatriation, and the costs would be crippling. It would be better for all if there were an amnesty, but there won't be because if there were, the scale of it would bury Labour forever.

Robert Jenkins

Stirchley