Jenrick: Immigration Reform Needed Now to Prevent Visa ‘Fire Sale’
Published on December 9, 2023
The immigration reforms announced this week must take effect immediately to prevent a “fire sale of visa applications,” former immigration minister Robert Jenrick said on Friday. Mr. Jenrick, who resigned from Cabinet on Wednesday over the Rwanda bill, also insisted that the bill won’t end the merry-go-round of legal challenges that prevented the swift removal of new illegal immigrants. “Integration is impossible if you let in over 1.2 million new people as we have done over the last two year,” Mr. Jenrick wrote in an article published in The Telegraph, adding that the level of immigration is also piling pressure on housing and public services....