Migrant ship docks in Valencia, Spain; after being rejected by Italy and Malta

[ingemann]

3) What is your approach to the population decline in Europe? Do you think economic prosperity can be maintained without immigration?

The reason population decline in Europe is problematic is because it lower the percent of productive people in the different state and increase the non-productive people as people leave the work force. But here it doesn't help bringing in people who as a statistic population are also unproductive. That doesn't solve the problem but increase it. Most European countries doesn't lack unskilled labour and even the unskilled labour we do use tend to a skillset, which are miles ahead of most of these migrants, as a unskilled Pole/Dane/Frenchmen/etc have a command of the local language, a elementary education and a understanding of the society they live and work in.

Spain may have some use of these people in their agricultural sector, but most of us lack the same need for farmhands.

[ingemann]

European countries living up to their anti-immigrant caricatures I see.

Now if only we Americans could send our own demented racist "populists" to somewhere where they'd feel more comfortable demographically. They'd be happier, and so would I!

you can really feel the slimy smugness here.

I have nothing against the fact that USA do nothing for refugees, but when Americans; citizens in a country which takes in less refugees than Sweden a country with 1/30 of the American population, talk big about other countries not doing enough, the hypocrisy becomes so ridiculous that it's almost hilarious.

[ingemann]

Who's native people? If you want to keep non-native people out, should you quit the EU which allows Italians/Spaniards to arrive? Or are we talking about a different type of native people, in which case what distinguishes Jews (clearly native to Europe for well over 1k years) from Arabs (less long-standing, but equally "non-native")?

Migration of Europeans to other European countries is fine (as long as neighborhoods don't completely turn into foreign-dominated areas): Europeans tend to integrate perfectly well within other European countries. Ashkenazi Jews have been in Europe for so long (Ashkenazi means German...) that we have become European over time. Only larpers would insist otherwise. Arabs just aren't native to Europe and tend to integrate very poorly in European societies.

I dunno, a lot of eastern Europeans got very bad press during the 2000s or so in the UK, at least.

I honestly saw it as a way to talk against immigration without it being a "racist" issue by being against the immigration of swarthy and brown people.

Our attitude in Denmark are different, while a lot of people aren't happy about all the East Europeans coming to Denmark, it have not become a major issue, because their crime are relative low, they give a surplus to the Danish state budget and they don't create a lot of drama.