A population the size of the city of Birmingham immigrated to Britain
over the last four years, with at least nine out of ten originating
from non-European countries.

The latest shocking figures which reveal further the extent of how
this nation is being overrun by immigration are contained in the
latest edition of Population Trends, published by the Office for
National Statistics.

According to that report, the immigrant population in Britain rose by
twenty one percent, or more than one million, between 2004 and 2007.

Its analysis of the Annual Population Survey showed that the numbers
of people living in the UK who were not born here rose by twenty one
percent between 2004 and 2007, from 5.2 million to 6.3 million. This
is an increase equivalent to the population of Birmingham.

Most of the new arrivals settled outside of the south of England, with
the east of the country seeing a thirty four percent rise in its non-
UK born population and both the north west and east midlands recording
thirty two percent increases.

In London, one in three residents was born abroad by 2007. In the
boroughs of Westminster and Brent, there are more foreign-born people
than Britons.

Meanwhile, some areas have seen large decreases in their populations
of native Britons, including Birmingham (a fall of four percent),
Surrey and Sheffield.

Last year, MigrationwatchUK calculated that a net 2.3 million
immigrants arrived in Britain between 1991 and 2006, the majority of
them from Africa and Asia.

Only 205,000, or eight percent, came from the East European nations
that have joined the European Union since 2004, according to
Migrationwatch’s analysis of official population statistics.

Sir Andrew Green, Migrationwatch’s chairman, said the figures should
shift the focus of debate about immigration away from Eastern
Europeans and towards citizens of developing countries.

“As public concern has increased, supporters of immigration have tried
to give the impression that the majority come from the new EU member
states and that in time, as their economies improve, they will return
home — thus implying that public fears are groundless,” he said.

“But the Government’s own figures show that this is far from the case.
They also give the lie to those who claim that there is no point in
immigration controls that do not apply to EU citizens.”

There was a net outflow of people from Britain to the rest of the EU,
Australia, the US and Canada from 1991-2006.

The Indian subcontinent contributed a net increase of almost 600,000
people to Britain. African countries accounted for a gain of more than
450,000.

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