Britain’s Labour government is feeling more and more heat over allegations that their high-immigration policy of the past decade has been deliberate social engineering, with the aim of electing a new people more sympathetic to the Labourites’ statist and egalitarian philosophy.

In the latest development, a key government document has been made public following a Freedom of Information request by Migrationwatch, an immigration-restrictionist group.

Gordon Brown pledged to secure “British jobs for British workers” as the recession led to a rise in unemployment … The document released yesterday suggested that Labour originally pursued a different direction. It was published under the title “Migration: an economic and social analysis” but the removal of significant extracts suggested that officials or ministers were nervous over references to “social objectives.”
The original paper called for the need of a new framework for thinking about migration policy but the concluding phrase — “if we are to maximise the contribution of migration to the Government’s economic and social objectives” — was edited out.

Could it be the case that our own open-borders and amnesty lobbyists have the same “social objectives” in mind? Are they, like their comrades fellow progressives across the pond, cynically seeking to import leftist voters, the domestic supply being insufficient to ensure their permanent dominance?

Yes they are.

“We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters,” stated Eliseo Medina, international executive vice-president of Service Employees International Union, or SEIU … Can you imagine if we have … two out of three? Can you imagine 8 million new voters who care about our issues and will be voting? We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle.