No host population has ever given majority approval for mass immigration. Immigrants only want to to go to already prosperous nations, and prosperous populations are never served by mass immigration. It’s tautological.
That's probably one of the best single sentence summations of the issue I've heard.
I would counterpoint though on "and prosperous populations are never served by mass immigration"
The richest are served by cheap labour, and more importantly labour who's presence is based on compliance. A corrupt owner doesn't want 0 deportations, they want to be able to report uppity or non compliant workers and have them deported.
The few instances I've seen where people have voted on it, they overwhelmingly voted to stop immigration, but their votes were either ignored by the politicians or thrown out by activist judges.
Similiarly, politicians care about one thing--growth. Growth makes their jobs easy. If your population is growing, your tax base is growing, your income is growing, you don't have to make many hard choices. It's a game of kick the can down the road.
But growth for the sake of growth is a self-defeating action. While politicians care about AGGREGATE growth, what we as individuals care about is per capita growth.
While the wealthy benefit from cheap labor, the lower end of the labor pool suffers, greatly.
No host population has ever given majority approval for mass immigration. Immigrants only want to to go to already prosperous nations, and prosperous populations are never served by mass immigration. It’s tautological.
That's probably one of the best single sentence summations of the issue I've heard.
I would counterpoint though on "and prosperous populations are never served by mass immigration" The richest are served by cheap labour, and more importantly labour who's presence is based on compliance. A corrupt owner doesn't want 0 deportations, they want to be able to report uppity or non compliant workers and have them deported.
Or wait until payday before "remembering" they have no right to work or even be in the country.
The few instances I've seen where people have voted on it, they overwhelmingly voted to stop immigration, but their votes were either ignored by the politicians or thrown out by activist judges.
Similiarly, politicians care about one thing--growth. Growth makes their jobs easy. If your population is growing, your tax base is growing, your income is growing, you don't have to make many hard choices. It's a game of kick the can down the road.
But growth for the sake of growth is a self-defeating action. While politicians care about AGGREGATE growth, what we as individuals care about is per capita growth.
While the wealthy benefit from cheap labor, the lower end of the labor pool suffers, greatly.