Person A: I support high levels of immigration.
Person B: Weren't you complaining about wages being too low? High levels of immigration directly impact wage growth in a negative way.
Person A: Yeah, but we don't have enough people to care for and replace baby boomers, so we need those immigrants.
Besides telling boomers to get rekt, what's your initial response?
Obviously, it's hypocritical to dissuade citizens from having children, and then turning around and saying we don't have enough people so we need more immigrants.
But I feel like I'm missing something here and can't quite put my finger on it.
Immigration takes a toll on culture, national identity, leads to identity politics abuses and conflicts, my kids will get discriminated against for being white and looking at Sweden - Malmo in particular, France, UK and US I do not like the consequences of immigration. This on top of housing market spikes and stagnating income for low skill work that is creating increase disparities between rich and poor. Can you imagine growing in London 30 years ago and being 80-87% of the city British and now be bellow 40%, is that even an English city?
The question should not be how to take care of baby boomers, it should be what is the cost. Are we willing to sacrifice and accept all the issues above so that baby boomers have 10% better life? Are baby boomers on-board with this?
Granted, at this point it no longer matters, the sad truth is that marxists won.
What is crazy is that you will be attacked for saying that a country should be allowed to make their own immigration policy. I guess we technically have one but it’s ignored. I remember the media went crazy because Trump said Immigration should be based on what skills you have to offer
I'm not asking for much.
I'll just want the same immigration policies as, say, Mexico. Or Canada, before they started gushing about letting in all those poor refugee migrants.
Yeah, try to illegally enter Mexico and see what happens. Hell, try it in Canada, as a white person. Please. Spoilers: It's not going to go as well as liberals think it would...
I remember showing how strict immigration is in Mexico to someone and they were shocked. In theory Canada has skills based immigration right?
Skill based, and if you have any type of criminal record, they'll deny you automatically, just off the top of my head.
I also recall antecedent mentions of immigrants always constantly getting checked by Mounties, much more than they ever did living in America.
There's old 'askreddit' threads floating around about redditors trying to emigrate to Canada post-Trump election and getting rudely introduced to reality.
I've seen my company try to secure skilled worker visas in Canada and they were all denied. And we're talking about very skilled IT workers who would pay a fuck ton of taxes. (as would we as the employer)
Refugees are considered to be outside the immigration system which is fucked up. I don't see how asylum can continue to exist unless you just arbitrarily limit it to a small slice of people you for whatever reason favor.