BOSTON, UK, IMMIGRATION SCRIPT OPEN: WS OF TOWN, NICE SHOT (church bells) PAWEL I’ve come here to find a better life. I find here job and I decide to work and stay and build my life. They’ve let too many foreign people into our town. it’s destroyed all our children’s jobs. We’re not safe anymore in this town. It’s just totally destroyed our town. We’ve had enough of foreigners in the town. They’ve taken over all the jobs from the young kids. The young kids have got no where to work because the foreigners have taken over. And they’re working for like 24 hours a day for next to nothing. Sound up: Boston sign We’re going to take a drive now down West Street. SINCE THE 2004 ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO INCLUDE COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER EASTERN BLOC, MILLIONS OF MIGRANTS FROM POLAND, LATVIA, LITHUANIA AND OTHER PLACES HAVE MOVED TO THE WEST IN SEARCH OF WORK. THE CITY OF BOSTON, IN LINCOLNSHIRE, HAS RECEIVED A HIGHER PROPORTION OF EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE MIGRANT ISSUE HAS BECOME PERHAPS THE MOST CONTENTIOUS IN ALL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE COUNTRY HOLDS ITS NATIONAL ELECTION ON MAY 7. UKIP THE CITY OF BOSTON IN THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS A LONG, STORIED HISTORY. IT IS FROM THIS CITY THAT A SMALL GROUP OF RELIGIOUS DISSIDENTS LEFT FOR THE NETHERLANDS, AND THEN TO THE NEW WORLD, BRINGING WITH THEM NOT JUST THEIR MEAGER BELONGINGS AND RELIGIOUS PASSIONS, BUT ALSO THE NAME OF THE TOWN, WHICH THEY BESTOWED UPON A CITY IN THE NEW COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS. THE CITY IS THE NAMESAKE OF BOSTON, MASS. IT WAS FROM HERE THAT A SMALL GROUP OF NOW, THE TOWN HAS THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF MIGRANTS FROM EASTERN EUROPE IN ALL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE DRAMATIC INFLUX, WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE OVER JUST THE LAST DECADE, HAS MADE THIS CITY A KEY BATTLEGROUND OVER ONE OF THE MOST CONTENTIOUS ISSUES IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION. I come here to find a better life. I find here job and job change my life. DAVE SUTTON It’s just deteriorated. We have so many more murders knife crimes. we’ve got some bad things happening here now. JULIAN THOMPSON We’re going to take a drive now down west st. It’s one of the most affected streets in boston insofar as 95 percent of the shops are eastern european and its really taken away the identity of our town. I’m Boston born and bred. But this feels like a place where I no longer belong. // In Boston, everybody knew everybody. It was a small tight-knit community. NIGEL FARAGE And of course what has become the biggest issue in British politics is immigration. // Mass immigration has led to a real crisis. We’ve now opened the door to 10 former communist countries. As members of the European Union, there is nothing we can do to control the numbers that come here. And net migration into Britain now is running at net 300,000 people a year and that is too much. We don’t want to put up the drawbridge. We want to control who’s coming across the drawbridge. THIS GROUP OF GUYS ARRIVED HERE JUST A ____ AGO. AND FOR ONE CLEAR REASON. Work.