Do to
influx of migrant workers in England,
the British government is looking to enact a law that would limit the amount of
time a migrant worker can stay in the UK to no more than five years. This
is being done in order to create a stronger “guest worker” labor force. This
new law would apply to all migrants except those who make £35,000 a year. It is
estimated that this law will affect over 40,000 skilled migrant workers in the UK. The hope is
that this new plan to limit the number of years a skilled migrant worker can
stay in the UK will cut the current net migration of about 250,000 down to “tens
of thousands” by the next general election. The British government believes
that setting the required income to remain in the country at £35,000 a year
will ensure that only the best and brightest get to stay.
There is
much to say about this proposed law. It only caters to the upper class. This
class favoritism is exactly the kind of thing that discourages workers from
choosing to work in that country to begin with. The government is essentially
saying, the wealthy get to stay, but the ones who don’t meet the financial requirement
cannot live here indefinitely. Many of these migrants are targeted because they
are employed through intra-company programs that is exempt from the limit of
migrant workers already established in that country. These companies mostly
bring in non-European workers through this program. So now this new law is
targeting workers that are non-European, a sort of subtle way of “cleansing”
the British population of drastically different ethnicities before they have
the opportunity to settle.
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/02/uk-to-cut-migration.html
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