Neglect, deflect, then scapegoat those you’ve exploited: that’s what passes for UK immigration policy | Nesrine Malik

The headline, now increasing in pitch, capital letters and exclamation marks, is that net migration is off the charts.

. It is at an all-time high. So high that we ask, how did it come to this? The answer is, it came to this predictably and, in fact, inevitably. The way immigration numbers are reported is a sort of classification error, one forced by the overriding, unquestioned presumption that immigration is bad, that it must…