"The Nobel Prizewinning author Sir Vidia Naipaul complained about the latter group to Radio 4's James Naughtie last week.
This is what he said: "What I dislike about it is this element of parasitism. These people who want to come to other countries from their own benighted places. They twist the laws, they hire lawyers, they do bad things to get residence. And then, having got that, they wish to destroy (the society) which has welcomed them. I think that is simply awful.
"At the most basic level it's a kind of ingratitude."