Immigration

[andrewducker]

Leaving asylum to one side for a moment as a special case:
[Poll #1558346]

Comments

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

I'd like a no borders approach, but I think it's very important that you can afford to buy/rent the land/food/services on which you'd reside in your target country.

Rocking up and expecting the existing locals to provide it for you anyway doesn't obviously seem fair unless you have a bilateral agreement that the citizens from your country would do the same for citizens in the target country (which we do within the EU although the level of civil support in countries is currently very different).

It's a shame the Daily Mail has polarised the issue by regularly finding the corner cases where the system is apparently unfair, in that any system of workable rules will have odd cases, despite there being perfectly legitimate questions to ask on the subject.

The government completely failed to plan for the level of immigration we've seen - official figures estimated 5k-13k per year, compared to 185k that actually arrived. These immigrants place legitimate increased demands on hospitals, schools, housing, transport etc. which none of the services have planned for thanks to the governments completely hopeless numbers.

Bilbo Baggins' patience began to wear thin well before the thirteenth dwarf had arrived. Does that make Bilbo a bigot?