Archbishop Nichols brands government immigration targets "inhumane"
Archbishop Vincent Nichols has branded the government's pursuit of immigration targets as "inhumane" and warned that the rules preventing foreign spouses of UK citizens from settling here are damaging the development of thousands of British children.
In a rare political intervention, the Archbishop of Westminster, urged the government to change a policy introduced last summer that prevents British people living with spouses who come from outside the European Union unless they can show an annual income of at least £18,600, well above the £12,855 minimum wage - the Guardian reports.
The measure was a scandal, Nichols said, adding: "Anyone truly concerned for the family as the building block of society, and realistic about the mobility of British people today, must see both the folly of this policy and how it is an affront to the status of British citizenship.
Click here to view the article that appeared in the Guardian on Monday 16 December.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/15/archbishop-westminster-vincent-nichols-attacks-immigration-targets