Yvette Cooper: End student visitor visa loopholes
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Student visas loopholes are allowing tens of thousands of people to enter the UK without any checks, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says.
Ahead of a London speech she told the BBC genuine foreign students were being blocked while short-term student visas were being increasingly abused.
She said the focus on cutting net immigration meant the government was not tackling illegal immigration.
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n her speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research, Ms Cooper admitted that Labour had not always got it right on the issue while in government and the impact of immigration must be properly managed so it is "fair for all".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21693835
Labour outlines measures to restrict benefits for new EU arrivals in UK.
The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has outlined a package of measures to restrict immediate access to welfare benefits for new European migrants coming to Britain that could be swiftly implemented.
In a major speech outlining Labour's new approach to immigration, Cooper said the government was right to look at the area but says that specific practical proposals are needed instead of the current "frenzy of briefing and rhetoric" by ministers.
Labour's decision to more than match the government's attempt to tighten new migrants' access to benefits and public services comes in advance of the complete opening of the British labour market to Bulgarians and Romanians at the end of the year.
Coalition ministers are struggling to agree a clear set of measures. The latest cabinet committee meeting on the issue took place on Wednesday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/07/labour-measures-restrict-benefits-arrivals
Keeping herself busy today.
