http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1830334,00.html
Sukhvinder Stubbs
"Tony Blair and the home secretary, John Reid, both appear transfixed in tackling security, criminality and migration. It's become a mantra, spoken in one breath and rather rapidly acquiring common parlance. For some years, I and others have questioned why migration should be lumped in with national security and community safety; where we place migration in the structure of government sends out a powerful message about our priorities. Last week, Reid took the first small step in addressing this issue when, as part of the new action plan to reform the Home Office, he announced that the Immigration and Nationality Department (IND) will be hived off, and become a separate agency from 2007. This is a good start, but it is overdue and addresses only part of the problem."
