How Labour's 'tough' rules let in 2,100 migrants a day

Daily Mail
"Britain handed out 2,100 visas a day following the introduction of Labour’s ‘tough’ new border controls.Official figures reveal for the first time that 1,554,327 non-EU nationals were given permission to enter or stay in this country under the previous government’s points-based system.The beneficiaries included workers, their partners and children and hundreds of thousands of foreign students.Incredibly, the numbers entering Britain continued to climb between 2008 and 2009 – despite the country being in the grip of a recession.A fall of fewer than 20,000 in the number of work permits being rubber-stamped for main applicants was dwarfed by a leap of 80,000 in student visas.The total number of visas handed out in 2009, including renewals for people who would otherwise have been forced to leave, was 778,617 – up from 775,710 a year earlier."