Wednesday 6 May 2009

Radio 1

Radio 1 Newsbeat, which carries quotes from Austen, goes out at 1245 and 1745 today.

News report here.

The news reporter joined the UKBA on raids on restaurants in Southampton -- as usual, a curry house. "The officers interviewed 15 kitchen staff and found a single Bangladeshi man suspected of overstaying his short-term marriage visa."

On SiC:

Thousands of people met in Trafalgar Square over the bank holiday weekend in support of an "earned amnesty" for immigrants that have lived here illegally for six years.

The pressure group Strangers Into Citizens, which organised the rally, says the government strategy of heavy fines and document checks is "inhumane, costly and complicated".

The group's director of policy Austen Ivereigh told Newsbeat: "They had an amnesty in 2005 in Spain and made about 600,000 people legal. It resulted in fewer people coming in, so it's actually a good way of tightening the borders.

"They start to pay taxes whereas before they didn't," he said. "And legal workers are not undercut by migrants being paid half the minimum wage."

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