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"HOTELS, farming and food processing in the North West would be plunged into a labour crisis without the region’s estimated 130,000 migrant workers. Industries which plug the skills gap with overseas workers would be at risk without managed immigration, according to Damian Waters, regional director for the North West Confederation of British Industry . Ministers are under pressure to abandon the UK’s open-door immigration policy for European Union workers before Romania and Bulgaria join up next year. Home Secretary John Reid is considering whether quotas should be applied as accession approaches. Foreign workers, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe, account for almost 20 per cent of North West hotel and catering staff and 17 per cent in food and drink pants."
