Opher’s Solutions to the Immigration Problem.
- Obviously the first thing to do is rejoin the EU, to get our cheap labour, transient workforce back instead of importing more permanent workers (and their families) from the other side of the world.
- Only allow workers who have a job into the country (this can be done under EU regs but the Tories did not implement it because they wanted to promote our exodus from the EU and thought this would soften it – they wanted the public inflamed).
- Process illegals quickly (not putting them up in hotels forever) so they can be shunted off back to where they came from or integrated into useful work thus taking the burden off the tax payers.
- Have routes where immigrants can legally apply and be processed without resorting to people smugglers.
- Provide schemes to properly assimilate and integrate immigrants so that they are not causing resentment among the native population (language and customs classes, schooling, support).
- Deport immigrants guilty of crimes or antisocial behaviour.
- Demand that all immigrants obey all the laws of the land and live by British values of compassion, fairness and empathy.
- Ban unBritish practices – genital mutilation, Burqas, Niqabs, child marriage, honour crimes, religious intolerance, spreading militant extremism (fascism and religious intolerance – and make it clear that any such activity (even when practiced abroad to avoid the law of the land) will be dealt with harshly with deportation and criminal proceedings.
- Ensure that immigrants are not seen to be given priority over the needs of the native population.
- Regulate the numbers and type of immigration so that it meets our needs without putting undue strain on services and infrastructure or upsetting the natives.
I think a sensible programme of compassion, empathy, and support, coupled with a clear, strong set of demands, strong reinforcement and action and a transparent set of values and expectations, would meet the needs of the country and take the venom out of the immigration problem.
What do you think?