You do understand, don't you, that there's a big gulf between unskilled jobs and unskilled employees? Actually many of the Eastern Europeans coming here are highly qualified, but cannot get jobs with those qualifications for various reasons. So they do unskilled work for a couple of years and then go back to their own country. As do most immigrants. And has been pointed out many times, they generally work harder and cheaper than locals. There are many reasons for unemployment, but immigrations comes a long way down the list.
And how do you propose to tackle the Demographic Time Bomb if you don't let young immigrants in to work? Locals simply aren't having enough children, whereas we do have a nice source of tax-paying labour out there.
Just because someone doesn't want immigrants doesn't mean that they are racist. It certainly increases the odds though. Most people who oppose immigration oppose it first, and think up reasons later. Finally, my old question: it so happens I'm an immigrant. Every job I've had, I've taken away from someone born here. Should I leave? If so, why?
send me the bill, i'll buy you a drink.
