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Indian steel tycoon Laskhmi Mittal and Russian oil baron Leonard Blavatnik are the new boys on the block at London's Kensington Palace Gardens, a street with houses so lavish it's known as billionaires' row.

Farther west in the suburb of Ealing, store fronts boast signs offering Polish delicacies to cater to an influx of less wealthy, but no less driven immigrants.

Come New Year's, Big Ben may be ringing in a new age of dominance for the capital of the United Kingdom.

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Immigrants, mainly from Eastern Europe, have increased tax revenue for British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown by about £18 billion pounds (USD $35 billion) since 1998, a report shows.

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The Queen's Speech includes a new Border and Immigration Bill. What will it contain?

When John Reid took over as the UK Home Secretary in May the first item in his in-tray was immigration, and especially sorting out the scandal of foreign prisoners who had not been deported after serving their sentences.

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Home Secretary for the United Kingdom, John Reid, revealed this week a renewed effort as part of on-going plans to arrest Britons involved in people-smuggling and to identify and assess fines against companies that hire illegal immigrants. Efforts to encourage and assist the public in reporting suspects and to provide other resources are also underway.

• Watch This VideoAccording to official UK government estimates, approximately 1,500 migrants arrived to live in the UK every day during 2005. The same figures suggest that 185,000 more people immigrated into the UK than emigrated to another country, yielding a net population gain of 500 per day.

The total for those arriving was lower than 2004's record, but continues a t

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