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level. Home Office think it would be difficult to
administer and could be abused. Their arguments on
both counts are in my view weak. A more powerful
argument would be that introduction of the principle
of up-grading citizenship could undermine the main
proposed defence against the immigration of male
fiances and husbands from the Indian sub-continent.
Home Office have not raised this point, but I think
it is valid and compelling. But if the proposed immigration rule on male fiances/husbands were to
change, this scheme would be a possibility.
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5. The Home Office fear that transmission of citizenship to
It is this that motivates them rather
I think the
the second generation would somehow be exploited by the
immigrant communities.
than a belief that the present level of immigration from the
second generation born overseas is intolerable.
conclusions that the Home Office draw are not wholly rational.
For their fears to be realised it would first require a move- ment out of the UK from the ethnic communities, probably even
those born in the UK, and a movement back to the UK of their
grand-children born overseas. I see no reason to suppose that
the children born in the UK of immigrant families will move bad
to their parents' county of origin (or elsewhere) in any
significant numbers, nor should that happen
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