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Nick Ryan, With one fiasco after another, it is clear that the immigration situation is one big mess. Wouldn't it be better to freeze the number of immigrants and try and sort the mess first, rather than letting in new immigrants and then moaning about it all?
Asked by sundeep on Nov 17 2007 8:12:36 AM and supported by 26 members
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Well, right across Europe right-wing (and far-right) political parties are gaining in the polls. Switzerland's anti-immigrant Peoples Party holds the largest vote in that country. This kind of sentiment -- why not freeze or even kick out immigrants -- plays to the gallery well. Heck, Italy is now deporting Romanians it says are living illegally, after claims they're involved in a number of crimes. The trouble is that such pub-borne comments make little sense in reality: who would run the health services, the cleaning, the IT jobs, the plumbing even (!) if we just froze all immigration. The economy of this nation and others are built on immigration. Business can't just stop using immigration and cut off from the rest of the world. Better for our politicians to be honest in this debate, instead of landing cheap shots on one another.
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