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British minister calls for ban on jobless migrants

This recent AFP photo shows Theresa May, the British home secretary.

The British home secretary has demanded a clampdown on jobless migrants seeking to enter the United Kingdom.

Theresa May criticized the "broken European migration system" for the continent’s current migrant crisis and urged EU leaders to tear up freedom of movement rules which allow free migrant travel across Europe.

The home secretary has suggested a crackdown to kick out foreign students at the end of their university courses if they do not have graduate-level jobs in the UK, according to the Sunday Express.  

This comes after Home Office figures last week revealed that the UK net migration hit a staggering 330,000 last year- the worst ever recorded.

May said the figures were "simply unsustainable" and claimed it would be wrong not to try and control migration going forward.

Writing in the Sunday Times, she urged a review of the EU Schengen agreement, which allows people to travel freely throughout Europe, claiming that it is being misused by migrants. 

Migrants cross the border between Macedonia and Greece near the Macedonian town of Gevgelija on August 29, 2015. The EU is grappling with an influx of people fleeing war in what the bloc has described as its worst refugee crisis in 50 years. (AFP photo)

 

May wrote: "When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.”

"Yet last year, four out of 10 EU migrants, 63,000 people, came here with no definite job whatsoever. We must take some big decisions, face down powerful interests and reinstate the original principle underlying free movement within the EU."

This is while Europe is said to be facing its worst migrant crisis since the World War II, as unprecedented numbers of migrants are reaching EU borders, surpassing 100,000 in July alone and reaching more than 340,000 this year so far, the Guardian said.

Italy and Greece are struggling with the daily influx of migrants and refugees, while Macedonia has declared a state of emergency.


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