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       Migration failing to drive economic growth and made housing crisis
       worse, warns report
        
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       Karl Williams, of the CPS, said: "Traditionally, the Treasury and much
       of the rest of Government have modelled immigration as an unqualified
       benefit to the public purse. But this is not the case."
        
       The report recommended abolishing the graduate route, which allows
       foreign students to stay for two years after getting their degrees.
       Instead, they could only remain if they had a graduate-level job
       within six months.
        
       This would be allied to scrapping the 600,000 a year target for the
       number of foreign students allowed into the UK, which was set by Boris
       Johnson.
        
       They recommended raising the salary thresholds for health and care
       workers above the national living wage, and minimum hourly wage in the
       care sector by 20p to 40p to help recruit more domestic workers. They
       also called for an immediate cap on the health and care visas set at
       30,000, down from the current 250,000 in 2023.
        
       Mr Jenrick said: "It would be unforgivable if the Government did not
       use the time before the general election to undo the disastrous post-
       Brexit liberalisations that betrayed the express wishes of the British
       public for lower immigration.
        
       "The changes we propose today would finally return numbers to the
       historical norm and deliver the highly-selective, highly-skilled
       immigration system voters were promised. These policies could be
       implemented immediately and would consign low-skilled mass migration
       to the past.
        
       "Immigration is consistently one of the top concerns of voters and
       they deserve a department whose sole mission is controlling
       immigration and securing our borders. For far too long, the Home
       Office has proven incapable of doing that."
        
        
        
        
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