Genuine question, is immigration really an issue or just something right-wing tries to prop up as an issue? Where I live the right-wing also campaigned heavily on immigration issue claiming that immigrants are coming and ruining the country. Year after year the average immigration was less than 1% of the entire population and in the special occasion where it went above 1% was when we took in Ukrainian refugees. But right wing kept propping it up until some people started to believe we actually have an immigration issue.
With that I mind I think we should always question whatever right-wing presents because they’re not above making shit up. If some right wing politician says the sky is blue I would get a second opinion before believing it.
Immigration is always “an issue” regardless of what your political position is*, but only in the sense that the government should have a policy about it. The policy can be to build infrastructure in advance and create opportunities that benefit both immigrant communities and non-immigrants, or it can be to police the borders more like you’re holding back rising sea levels. Not responding in any way leads to instability and “crisis” (or more often, the opposition manufacturers the feeling of crisis).
I think you might’ve missed my point. Policy can be taken as “always as issue” in the same as taxation is “always an issue”, because people will always have opinions on how to do things. But my question was more along the lines of there being an actual problem with the current policy or did people just start complaining about immigration because the right wing complains about immigration.
My experience was that people didn’t really mind immigration until the right wing started complaining how the current policy is bad and we’re letting freeloaders and other questionable individuals in.
1% per year is huge. By the time someone is born and get into the workforce and look at buying a house the population has gone up ~25%.
Yea immigration is an issue depending on how you see it. If you want to keep wages down and house prices up it’s good.
If you concerned about increasing wages, having a house, your culture, low crime, less government spending then certain immigration is really bad. People against immigration aren’t usually against a doctor coming from a closely alined friendly country. People against immigration is against how it has become an issue, not immigration in general. People want a say on the matter.
But the stats on immigration. Not just the feels as portrayed by a lot of people on the left show there are significant issues with crime and how it impacts working class people, never mind culture changing drastically. But this isn’t immigration as a whole, this is some immigration.
But for a lot of people, even talking about it immediately makes you a Nazi. So people vote for people that don’t treat them like shit for wanting to keep the way of life as is rather than selling out everything in the life for the gain of businesses and the upper class at the expense of themselves.
This reads exactly like a list of right-wing talking points, no real numbers and just a bunch of fear mongering.
1% per year is huge
I said less than 1%, you present it as 1%.
By the time someone is born and get into the workforce and look at buying a house the population has gone up ~25%.
Which would also happen if you had high birth rates but somehow right-wing groups tend to promote more births. Why they do it is because the overall population in Europe is in decline. Without immigration and at current birth rates Europe’s population is projected to go down not up.
Yea immigration is an issue depending on how you see it. If you want to keep wages down and house prices up it’s good.
Immigration is not stagnating wages and forcing the cost of living up. Immigration can play a role in that but without you giving any actual numbers I have a hard time blaming immigration for that. You should be asking your government why they’re not addressing stagnating wages and rising cost of living instead of blaming it on immigrants.
If you concerned about increasing wages, having a house, your culture, low crime, less government spending then certain immigration is really bad. People against immigration aren’t usually against a doctor coming from a closely alined friendly country. People against immigration is against how it has become an issue, not immigration in general. People want a say on the matter.
This is literally the “immigrants are ruining our country” argument.
But the stats on immigration. Not just the feels as portrayed by a lot of people on the left show there are significant issues with crime and how it impacts working class people, never mind culture changing drastically. But this isn’t immigration as a whole, this is some immigration.
I love how you said how the left plays on feels and not stats, but I pretty much asked for stats send you’re playing for feels. Not a single number, just a bunch of vague “some immigrants are bad”.
But for a lot of people, even talking about it immediately makes you a Nazi. So people vote for people that don’t treat them like shit for wanting to keep the way of life as is rather than selling out everything in the life for the gain of businesses and the upper class at the expense of themselves.
And this is the crux of the issue. You acknowledge that workers are “selling out everything in the life for the gain of businesses and the upper class at the expense of themselves”, but then instead of blaming the wealthy you blame immigrants? That is literally what right-wing groups want. They take legitimate grievances people have and then instead of pointing at the culprits, who also tend to be their party members, they point at the outsiders, immigrants, and say they’re to blame.
If that’s all you have then I don’t think you have an actual immigration problem, just one propped up by the right wing.
People have an issue with immigration but you have your talking points. You said them while ignoring concerns and that’s the end of it. Yet the issues are still there.
Genuine question, is immigration really an issue
I guess it wasn’t a genuine question after all. I told you the issues people have with immigration and you just act like they don’t exist.
You want to know why people vote for the far right and I’m telling you. I have personally voted only voted for parties left of every single party that has ever been in power in my country. The last time I voted. I voted for the party that was most concerned about reducing immigration because I think it’s that much of an issue.
You was talking about how less than 1% of immigration a year is fine. That was your point. So I used your less than one percentage at least mathematically and did an estimation. If you said less than 0.5 or less than 0.01 I would have used those numbers. You used 1 that’s where it came from. You acted like anything less than 1 is fine, don’t act like you didn’t.
Of course immigration is stagnating wages it’s supply and demand. “No one wants to work anymore we need to hire foreigners” no no one wants to do that shitty job at a below market wage, raise your wages and locals will take the job. The actual upper class know how to keep wages down and they do. When working class had actual bargaining power they shit themselves and undermined them.
We live in a capitalist world the labour market will correct itself with a reduction in supply. Dont get things mixed up, I have issues with the government for things but that doesn’t mean immigration isn’t a problem.
This is literally the “immigrants are ruining our country” argument.
What argument is that then and why is everyone that disagrees with you on the matter not worth listening to?
I’d love some stats. Give me some stats on financial contribution to country, crime, unemployment, cultural integration, based on immigration from country of origin, education and visa type for both first and second generation. Please I’d absolutely love that. But the only thing that is anything close is the Danish study and hidden figures from German and Sweden for crime. People are scared of reporting that because they know its going to show immigration isn’t bad. I’d also love to know how the law of supply and demand are broken for housing and labour when it comes it immigration.
I have issue with the wealth and the upper class for a lot of reasons that are apart from the immigration issue. But I also blame them for the immigration issue too.
Problem is the left is so irrational there is no one to talk to. They just do everything of what feels good and live in a bubble.
You think immigration is that much of an issue but then lay out right-wing talking points as the issue and offer literally nothing to back them up. And then you act like I’m not asking genuinely and I should give you the stats about things you can’t even properly specify.
I’m going to stick with there’s no actual immigration issue you just don’t want immigrants.
I’ve seen first hand what happens to wages/jobs and housing and cities because of immigration. Everyone knows about the crime issues from certain countries but most governments won’t release that data.
The only reason they are “right wing talking points” is because the left are living in denial. This is the wokness feeling of immigration must be good because we say it’s good. Yet whenever data comes out about immigration (when broken down not over all) it shoes bad things.
So please provide me with evidence. Maybe you will change my view. Like I said I used to vote left but seeing as the left live in denial. The right as you call them have figures showing immigration so bad. I’m going to have to go on what I’ve seen in reality and what the figures say. I’m not going to live in some leftie make believe land where every immigrant is an upstanding university educated, secular, LGBT loving, non sexist who believes in western values and integrates perfectly.
Genuine question, is immigration really an issue or just something right-wing tries to prop up as an issue? Where I live the right-wing also campaigned heavily on immigration issue claiming that immigrants are coming and ruining the country. Year after year the average immigration was less than 1% of the entire population and in the special occasion where it went above 1% was when we took in Ukrainian refugees. But right wing kept propping it up until some people started to believe we actually have an immigration issue.
With that I mind I think we should always question whatever right-wing presents because they’re not above making shit up. If some right wing politician says the sky is blue I would get a second opinion before believing it.
Immigration is always “an issue” regardless of what your political position is*, but only in the sense that the government should have a policy about it. The policy can be to build infrastructure in advance and create opportunities that benefit both immigrant communities and non-immigrants, or it can be to police the borders more like you’re holding back rising sea levels. Not responding in any way leads to instability and “crisis” (or more often, the opposition manufacturers the feeling of crisis).
*except for anarchism
I think you might’ve missed my point. Policy can be taken as “always as issue” in the same as taxation is “always an issue”, because people will always have opinions on how to do things. But my question was more along the lines of there being an actual problem with the current policy or did people just start complaining about immigration because the right wing complains about immigration.
My experience was that people didn’t really mind immigration until the right wing started complaining how the current policy is bad and we’re letting freeloaders and other questionable individuals in.
1% per year is huge. By the time someone is born and get into the workforce and look at buying a house the population has gone up ~25%.
Yea immigration is an issue depending on how you see it. If you want to keep wages down and house prices up it’s good.
If you concerned about increasing wages, having a house, your culture, low crime, less government spending then certain immigration is really bad. People against immigration aren’t usually against a doctor coming from a closely alined friendly country. People against immigration is against how it has become an issue, not immigration in general. People want a say on the matter.
But the stats on immigration. Not just the feels as portrayed by a lot of people on the left show there are significant issues with crime and how it impacts working class people, never mind culture changing drastically. But this isn’t immigration as a whole, this is some immigration.
But for a lot of people, even talking about it immediately makes you a Nazi. So people vote for people that don’t treat them like shit for wanting to keep the way of life as is rather than selling out everything in the life for the gain of businesses and the upper class at the expense of themselves.
This reads exactly like a list of right-wing talking points, no real numbers and just a bunch of fear mongering.
I said less than 1%, you present it as 1%.
Which would also happen if you had high birth rates but somehow right-wing groups tend to promote more births. Why they do it is because the overall population in Europe is in decline. Without immigration and at current birth rates Europe’s population is projected to go down not up.
Immigration is not stagnating wages and forcing the cost of living up. Immigration can play a role in that but without you giving any actual numbers I have a hard time blaming immigration for that. You should be asking your government why they’re not addressing stagnating wages and rising cost of living instead of blaming it on immigrants.
This is literally the “immigrants are ruining our country” argument.
I love how you said how the left plays on feels and not stats, but I pretty much asked for stats send you’re playing for feels. Not a single number, just a bunch of vague “some immigrants are bad”.
And this is the crux of the issue. You acknowledge that workers are “selling out everything in the life for the gain of businesses and the upper class at the expense of themselves”, but then instead of blaming the wealthy you blame immigrants? That is literally what right-wing groups want. They take legitimate grievances people have and then instead of pointing at the culprits, who also tend to be their party members, they point at the outsiders, immigrants, and say they’re to blame.
If that’s all you have then I don’t think you have an actual immigration problem, just one propped up by the right wing.
This is exactly what I mean.
People have an issue with immigration but you have your talking points. You said them while ignoring concerns and that’s the end of it. Yet the issues are still there.
I guess it wasn’t a genuine question after all. I told you the issues people have with immigration and you just act like they don’t exist.
You want to know why people vote for the far right and I’m telling you. I have personally voted only voted for parties left of every single party that has ever been in power in my country. The last time I voted. I voted for the party that was most concerned about reducing immigration because I think it’s that much of an issue.
You was talking about how less than 1% of immigration a year is fine. That was your point. So I used your less than one percentage at least mathematically and did an estimation. If you said less than 0.5 or less than 0.01 I would have used those numbers. You used 1 that’s where it came from. You acted like anything less than 1 is fine, don’t act like you didn’t.
Of course immigration is stagnating wages it’s supply and demand. “No one wants to work anymore we need to hire foreigners” no no one wants to do that shitty job at a below market wage, raise your wages and locals will take the job. The actual upper class know how to keep wages down and they do. When working class had actual bargaining power they shit themselves and undermined them.
We live in a capitalist world the labour market will correct itself with a reduction in supply. Dont get things mixed up, I have issues with the government for things but that doesn’t mean immigration isn’t a problem.
What argument is that then and why is everyone that disagrees with you on the matter not worth listening to?
I’d love some stats. Give me some stats on financial contribution to country, crime, unemployment, cultural integration, based on immigration from country of origin, education and visa type for both first and second generation. Please I’d absolutely love that. But the only thing that is anything close is the Danish study and hidden figures from German and Sweden for crime. People are scared of reporting that because they know its going to show immigration isn’t bad. I’d also love to know how the law of supply and demand are broken for housing and labour when it comes it immigration.
I have issue with the wealth and the upper class for a lot of reasons that are apart from the immigration issue. But I also blame them for the immigration issue too.
Problem is the left is so irrational there is no one to talk to. They just do everything of what feels good and live in a bubble.
You think immigration is that much of an issue but then lay out right-wing talking points as the issue and offer literally nothing to back them up. And then you act like I’m not asking genuinely and I should give you the stats about things you can’t even properly specify.
I’m going to stick with there’s no actual immigration issue you just don’t want immigrants.
I don’t have a problem with immigration as a concept.
I have an issue with how immigration is being used in large parts of the west currently.
Here you go have a read of this.
https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/p/the-effects-of-immigration-in-denmark
https://archive.is/YghSG
I’ve seen first hand what happens to wages/jobs and housing and cities because of immigration. Everyone knows about the crime issues from certain countries but most governments won’t release that data.
The only reason they are “right wing talking points” is because the left are living in denial. This is the wokness feeling of immigration must be good because we say it’s good. Yet whenever data comes out about immigration (when broken down not over all) it shoes bad things.
So please provide me with evidence. Maybe you will change my view. Like I said I used to vote left but seeing as the left live in denial. The right as you call them have figures showing immigration so bad. I’m going to have to go on what I’ve seen in reality and what the figures say. I’m not going to live in some leftie make believe land where every immigrant is an upstanding university educated, secular, LGBT loving, non sexist who believes in western values and integrates perfectly.