Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney aren'''t the only ones getting in a tussle over immigration (see Rudy getting booed at last night'''s debate here). It seems Morrissey'''s comments in the recent issue of NME regarding immigration in England has sparked a war between the former Smiths frontman and the U.K. music magazine. According to the BBC, Moz'''s barristers have threatened legal action against NME for defamation unless it publishes an apology for an article in which the magazine criticized him for telling a reporter that Britain had lost its identity due to immigration.

NME quotes Morrissey as saying: "Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. So the price is enormous."
"If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. But travel to England and you have no idea where you are," the singer is reported to have said.
The BBC reports his lawyers said they would begin legal proceedings if the magazine did not apologize by a deadline of 1300 GMT today, which has already passed.
In another strange twist, Tim Jonze, the freelance writer who interviewed Morrissey for the piece, insisted that his byline be pulled from the article because it had been rewritten. "I didn't want my name on something I hadn't written, even if some of it might have been similar to what I wrote originally," the BBC quoted him as saying.