英國移民政策又一樁

Telegraph原始新聞網頁(最後有新聞原文)



「超市們起來！想辦法開始暗中監視在英國的移民吧！」



看到這個標題就緊張。最近英國政府考慮要暗中監視在超市裡購物的消費者，來了解到底

這些來自東歐的移民者到底住在英國的哪些地方。真是太可怕了，連去TESCO買東西，

都可能被監視！雖然他針對的是東歐人士，不過身為外來的一員，心裡還是忍不住擔心。



這份計畫主要考量是移民所造成公共服務的沉重負擔，例如學校以及醫療。英國政府無法

掌握這些外來移民來英國時，究竟打算住在哪裡。意思就是，這些移民跑到哪裡去，英國

政府無從所知曉就是。



這時候，我只能說英國發揮了她警察國家的潛力，把公部門的手明目張膽地伸入日常生活

裡面，對我的意思就是說，偷偷來就算了。公部門考慮用超市系統來收集消費者資料。意

思就是說，你消費的行為會被監視，無論是你人出現在那裡，或是用信用卡、或是申請了

超市集點卡，都有可能成為被政府利用來監控你的資料庫。這還真是聰明，尤其像TESCO

這種地方。就像是7-11一樣，英國每一個郵遞小區，幾乎都有TESCO的存在。而很多人

的日常生活的吃吃喝喝，都是在超市消費，超市的確是絕佳的監控居民以及了解居民成分

的最佳資料庫。



嘆氣，作為外來的移入者，以後連買東西都要小心翼翼。



這一系列的移民政策，包括申請移民簽證在語言上的限制、未來十年內即將列管島內所有

的居民，尤其是移民居民，在加上這個暗中監視移民的政策，都看到英國移民政策的轉向

，以及其有愈來愈strict以及conservative的趨勢。



當然，這有一部分是受到英國島內所謂恐怖份子的行動，讓英國居民乃至於政府對於外移

者的戒心趨強。其次，對於移民的素質，也開始有所考量。雖然大量的勞工移民，降低了

英國工業的成本，這些勞工移民變成經濟的基礎，但是他們與主流社會的隔離、與當地社

會的衝突，以及在福利與教育系統上的無法控制，也造成社會成本。去年申請移民在英文

語言限制上的多加琢磨－英國移民政策宣佈申請移民的人一定要經過程度的英文考試－顯

示引進低廉的勞動力已經不是英國移民的主軸，移民政策逐漸從傾向進口勞工移民轉向技

術移民，唯有一定專業技術、或是在語言上有能力能融入當地生活的移民，才有辦法更容

易在英國申請到居留。



看來，未來移居到英國真是愈來愈不易。無論是在最近面臨的英國經濟大泡沫泡沫化、通

貨膨脹、房價的不穩定，或是對於新移民不友善的政策等問題。不過，如果真的有能力，

應該還是可以適者生存地留下來吧.... 



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Telegraph 新聞原文:

Supermarkets 'should spy on migrants'



The Government wants councils to spy on supermarkets shoppers to find

out where eastern Europeans are settling in Britain. 



The proposal, which is sure to alarm civil liberties campaigners, comes

amid concern about the strain being put on public services like schools

and GP surgeries from immigration, because the Government does not know

where migrants are going to live when they arrive in the UK.





Supermarkets are thought to have access to valuable data on shoppers.

Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary told MPs today: "The Local

Government Association has recently suggested that we look at footfall

in supermarkets. "They reckon Tesco has pretty good accurate information

about the people who use their stores.



"I welcome that kind of imaginative thinking if it can help us to get a

better and more accurate view at the local level of what the impact

[of migration] is."





The LGA said that it was holding talks with major supermarkets over the

coming months. Tesco was key to the plans because the company has a shop

in every post code area in Britain, apart from Harrogate.





Sir Simon Milton, chairman of the LGA, added: "Everyone needs to eat and

with the vast majority of people buying the food from supermarkets,

understanding how many people visit shops may help ministers to get a better

understanding of the number of people in a local area. 



"Retailers are extremely professional in ensuring that they have accurate data

on the number of people that are shopping, or being shopped for in their stores. 



"One proposal being examined is to look at ways of working with the retail to

sector to share or learn from them better techniques for collecting the information

we need to help taxpayers and local people." 



The LGA insisted that any data which was passed onto the Government would be 

"anonymised" to ensure that officials cannot spy on people’s shopping habits.



Miss Blears also said she was supportive of LGA plans to vet GP registers,

National Insurance numbers and school censuses to provide better figures on 

where people are settling.



She told MPs that legislation could be considered if negotiations with firms 

benefiting from overseas labour failed to reach agreement on voluntary contributions.



Language skills have been made a central plank of the Government’s immigration

policy, with anyone intending to stay more than a short time now expected to learn.



Miss Blears told a Communities and Local Government Committee hearing on 

cohesion and migration: "I feel quite strongly that employers should be taking a 

significantly bigger role in helping to fund some of the essential English language 

classes."



Miss Blears also disclosed that eastern European immigrants now make up around 

a quarter of one English town’s population.



Boston in Lincolnshire has seen a dramatic influx of foreign workers from new members

of the European Union such as Poland and the Czech Republic. 



Miss Blears told MPs investigating community cohesion that they now made up about 25

per cent of the town’s estimated 70,000 residents. She said representatives of the town

had been among those at a recent meeting to discuss the impact and how to deal with the

consequences.



"If you talk to Boston, in fact now something like 25 per cent of their population is

from Eastern European countries and they’ve said it is fundamental to their economy:

they absolutely need those people for the skills but equally there is a big impact.



"It is difficult to get a national evaluation of that impact; I think what’s really

important is to drill down into those communities, look where the impact is and then make

sure Government and local government are well prepared to be able to support those 

communities in coping with that pace of change."



A spokesman from the human rights group Liberty said: "Does the LGA really believe that

they can determine where Eastern European migrants have settled based on supermarket 

purchases of vodka?



"Surely a more sensible action would be to simply ask arriving migrants where they are 

planning to live."



Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, said: "If people give personal information

to private companies there must be absolutely no compulsion to hand over this information

to the Government.



"The Government need to sort out the shambles of its immigration policy but taking private

information in this manner is not the way to it."



Guy Herbert, general secretary of the No2ID campaign, said: "Using commercially available

statistics on the population as a whole would make a lot more sense than the individualised

intrusiveness of censuses and population registers.



"But no way should government be permitted either to 'share' ClubCard data, or collate 

school and medical roles to pinpoint individuals.



"It seems we have a Government whose first impulse if it has a policy problem is to spy on

people: that's what 'drill down into those communities' means. That's an entirely different

bill of goods."