So we would have an annual limit on the number of economic migrants coming here.
Those boats were almost exclusively male and the Thai government said they were economic migrants.
We are controlling legal immigration - having introduced a cap on non-EU economic migrants.
Immigration has three aspects - desired economic migrants, sheltered asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
All too easily we would become a Europe of internal economic migrants and unwelcome neighbours.
When it comes to economic migrants, the charge that Labour has allowed more people in is irrefutable.
But critics say they have made the country an attractive destination for economic migrants seeking a better life.
This is why Malaysia has close to 500, 000 economic migrants from other countries.
Thailand in turn does not want to encourage people that it considers to be almost almost exclusively economic migrants.
Northerners say many never left, thanks to southern census record keepers who allegedly helped economic migrants acquire false documents.
But why make economic migrants disguise themselves as refugees in the first place?
The assumption is that people genuinely in fear of persecution will put up with these restrictions, while economic migrants might be deterred.
Christendom was the developing world of the day, spilling into Islam the economic migrants of the people's crusade and the children's crusade.
They were economic migrants, seizing the moment, riding a current of freedom.
This year has brought more than ever, with the usual number of economic migrants swollen by those unsettled by unrest in Tunisia and Libya.
For Migrationwatch, Sir Andrew said that while the UK needed some economic migrants, there should be more restrictions on people being allowed to settle permanently.
On that trip he realized he should establish a foothold there to cater to these economic migrants, who salted away their savings to buy gold.
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The bursting of the property bubble and high unemployment levels compounded the situation, forcing many economic migrants from South America and Eastern Europe to leave the country.
But other aspects of the proposed new asylum laws, which go well beyond a reasonable attempt to distinguish between political refugees and economic migrants, are much less defensible.
For the coming year, even as we have reduced the number of economic migrants overall by seven thousand, we have actually increased the number of Tier 2 visas available.
Second, he assumes that the current rigid cap on the number of visas issued to economic migrants is replaced with one that takes into account what the American labour market needs.
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In response to concerns that students visas are being misused by economic migrants, there will be limits on the hours of paid work which overseas students will be allowed to carry out.
The CNDH said it was investigating the reasons behind the disappearances, and stated that the figure included those kidnapped for ransom and economic migrants from within Mexico and Central America whose whereabouts were unknown.
Perhaps 3m Zimbabweans who fled the country as refugees or economic migrants were told they could not cast postal ballots: out of a total electorate said to be 5.7m people, that is a huge share.
"International economic problems could lead to our allies having to make considerable cuts to their defence spending, and to an increase in economic migrants between EU member states, and to domestic social or political unrest, " it said.
Like many economic migrants around the world, those who make for Moscow tend to be aspirational and moderately well-educated, but see their social status dip when they arrive as they take up jobs that native Muscovites balk at.
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It was, above all, at this stage an empire driven less by the state than by the personal ambitions of people with vastly different backgrounds and agendas: from fortune-seeking gentry to merchants looking for new markets, impoverished economic migrants and evangelical missionaries.
The economic reality is that migrants are going to follow economic opportunities, legally or not.
At the other end of the economic scale, migrants come from impoverished Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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