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New Home Office figures show work and family visas down sharply in 2025, yet local voters in Solihull still name immigration a top concern.
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00:00Refugees should always, if they're fleeing from war-torn countries,
00:05persecution, we shouldn't turn them away.
00:08Economic migrants is an entirely different thing.
00:14Long term, I think there's a lot of skilled people.
00:16I mean, working in the NHS, there's a lot of skilled people from all over the country.
00:20I'm an immigrant myself, I'm Irish, sir. I came over from Ireland
00:24when I was younger, sir. I think it can be good for the country, and
00:29it's multicultural, I think it's nice, all the different cultures.
00:32I don't think they stand a chance of reducing
00:35numbers from the small boats that come across.
00:39I don't have a problem with anybody coming out to this country and working
00:43and paying their taxes, because they are contributing to
00:48society and integrating, and it's going to sound really miserable
00:52what I'm going to say now. You should speak English as well, because the only way
00:56they integrate is if you speak English, the same language as the people around you.
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