Julie Chavez Rodriguez is the Associate Director of Latino Affairs and Immigration for the Office of Public Engagement at the White House.

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The Home Office also said that the extra immigration staff deployed at borders was properly trained, rejecting media reports to the contrary.

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Mr Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill, said the latest projections by the Office for National Statistics assume immigration will continue at a rate of 200, 000 a year, meaning the UK population "will hit" 70 million in about 16 years and "continue rising indefinitely beyond that period".

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Immigration officers had been tipped off by staff at the Leicester Register Office following a suspicious wedding.

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He is being held at Dover's immigration removal centre and now has five days to appeal the Home Office decision.

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Felicia Escobar is Senior Policy Director for Immigration at the Domestic Policy Council and Doug Rand is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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