Immigration – Illegal and Legal
Immigration has become the foremost hot potato.
Illegal Immigration (June 2023-June 2024) – 38,784
Legal Immigration (June 2023-June 2024) – 1,160,000
The wealthy have been looking for a scapegoat to blame in order to take the attention away from their exploitative, greedy behaviour. They used the media, Tory Party and Reform to drum up fear and hatred against foreigners.
This racism was largely responsible for the hugely damaging Brexit (from which the wealthy made a killing).
Before Brexit we had a lot of eastern European immigrants providing cheap labour for the caring industries, hospitality, field work and NHS. We were told that if we gave up our rights to travel and work in Europe the British would fill these gaps in the market. That hasn’t happened.
Instead, we now bring in immigrants from India, China and Africa. Where the Eastern Europeans were mainly transient – coming to work for a few years to make some money and then heading home – the immigrants from further away are settling and bringing their families.
We obviously need immigration for our economy and because we have a retracting population. What we have done is replace one set of immigrants with another and we’re paying a fortune for the privilege and losing our freedom to travel in the process.
9/11, militant Islam and mass immigration (due to war, climate change and economics) has created a fear of immigrants that the right-wing have focussed on to deflect from what they are busy doing (exploiting us).
The huge focus on illegal immigrants is phony in my opinion. The real problem is the huge number of legal immigrants. We need to get the numbers and skills right. We also need to show a responsible compassion for those in dire need. That’s what British values are based on. We need to control it. It isn’t the illegals that are the main problem – it’s the number of legals that need regulating. It seems to me that the major problem with the illegals is the slow speed of the processing. They need sorting quickly instead of being stuffed in hotels rotting away at our expense. They should either be gone or working!
In my view, there is nothing wrong with immigration. We need immigrants to keep the country working. They are good for us and the economy. Without them things don’t work. It is merely a question of getting the numbers right, processing the right people and controlling it. As for the illegal immigrants – obviously we should have been providing legal pathways, processing them, shipping the ones who should not be here back to where they came from and assimilating the ones who qualify so they can work and contribute. Putting them in hotels at huge expense is stupid!
Then we come to the thorny subject of assimilation!!