Every year, about 90 million people come and go from Britain, including tourists, students, workers, business people and long-and short-stay visitors. Asylum seekers make up for a small fraction of these people.
In 2003, an estimated 61,050 individuals applied for asylum in Britain. In 2002, non-British people who actually settled here was a piffling 24,450, while 91,000 Britons left to live overseas - well over three times more.
So let's nail the insidious lie that we are being swamped.
-Malcolm Martindale, Brighton
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