Our government has made a lot of noise about it being a top priority, but the reality is the complete opposite. They’ve used it as a distraction from their real doings.
The Tories started including students in the immigration figures to 'scare' voters. A friend of my son is a marketing manager for a university, and was really quite annoyed about it. 25% of the immigration figures are students, who, as you said, return after their studies have completed...
Leaflets were aimed at the Asian community to vote for Brexit, because future trade deals with India would include more immigration. Europeans were classed as queue jumpers (Theresa May) because of Freedom of Movement.
As for other European countries taking in asylum seekers, Britain is way...