Gustaf
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« on: April 18, 2015, 04:51:57 AM » |
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Don't have time to read through all the posts and links here but I'll just note that while I believe Gully and TheDeadFlagBlues are broadly correct for the UK and the US, this isn't true in many other European countries.
Sweden, for example has very low employment rates among our immigrant population and the current policy certainly is a net cost to the country financially speaking.
Immigration also comes in different forms. High-skilled labour immigration tends to be pretty beneficial to the host country, traumatized war refugees not so much.
That is leaving aside the moral aspect of humanitarian duties to other people, which is a separate issue.
Since it is my first post I should probably add that the humanitarian disaster in the Mediterranean is a huge shame for Europe, no question about it.
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