Posted on 05/09/2024 10:20:26 AM PDT by CFW
Mass migration has not delivered significant GDP growth per capita for the United Kingdom, but it has increased strain on the country, according to a new study.
While illegal immigration recently hit record highs in the United States, legal immigration poses a significant issue for the U.K., where legal migration levels are more than 25 times the level of illegal levels, according to a report Wednesday from the Centre for Policy Studies, a U.K. think tank and advocacy group.
The percentage of foreign-born people in the U.K. nearly doubled over two decades, with 9% of the population being foreign-born in 2001 to 17% in 2021, which is even higher than the U.S., where 14% of people are foreign-born.
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They needed a *study* to arrive at that conclusion????????
Yes, many people have been saying that for years, but it is starting to percolate up to the conservative pundits with a huge audience. I see that as a big breakthrough.
VDH has undergone a transformation the past few years. Up until five years ago, I thought he was too tolerant of liberal lunacy and destruction. But he has really evolved into a much more militant conservative (which is great to see).
“government funded welfare payments supplied from borrowed money “
That’s very bothersome. No only do we let them in, but we taxpayers are paying them once they’re here.
Good TV ad for the US voters in this country would stat with “Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year” according to the F.A.I.R study recently.
Ask them if they think the danger of gang crime, sex traffickers, drunk and drug impaired driving accidents and costs to the school systems and prison system are worth it.
96% of all invaders are on welfare. The other 4% work for the government to make sure they ALL can live on welfare.
What if Biden grants amnesty using his pardon power to prevent trespassers from being deported for violating our border laws?
The Roman Empire benefited from cheap labor. They collapsed after the barbarians joined the Roman Empire.
*Army.
Why would it??
Sorry about the delayed response on this. The theory goes, and it’s not my theory, that migrants tend to work harder. They have, in the past, noted that immigrants have a higher employment rate than American Citizens. Further, the first generation after, tends the same direction. Therefore, your ‘importing people’ to pay into the system (if they are legal) to support things like Social Security (SS) which has been raided to support Welfare since the 1960’s.
The MODERN reality, is that immigrants have almost the same employment as US Citizens. They also have nearly the same unemployment and dependency on Government assistance. The new data suggests that any prior statistical advantage for legal immigrants has essentially evaporated. Now, your just importing people, dependents and all, without any significant advantage.
Please notice that the aforementioned discussion really deals only with legal immigration. The data for illegal immigration is nebulous, but appears to cost the US upwards of 1-2 Trillion in taxpayer money (Federal-State-Local). The hidden expense is the knowledge that those lost jobs, which may have been filled by Americans, also increase the need for Taxes to pay for those not employed.
What I am saying is that if you paid Americans to do your roof and it cost 100k, and illegals 40k you missed the hidden expenses. Then you have to pay 90K in taxes to cover welfare for unemployed Americans, drug rehab and criminal expenses, and provide services to the illegals, it wasn’t a deal. 1% increase in taxes hurts the GDP by about 0.78, on top of that. Since employers are no longer searching for workers and dependable workers, corporations loose interest in education and the ‘product’. Then, corporation look to move manufacturing to cheap labor to increase profit, because the undereducated and poorly responsible workers aren’t worth the price. The ‘dominos’ of immigration and illegal immigration are substantial.
Funny how the Democrats have ‘Scientists’ model the climate, but nobody models how unfettered immigration, irresponsible government spending, and destruction of American manufacturing by having the government use ‘income tax’ instead of Tariff to support itself, cause a giant spiral of economic death. Yet, when the new President of Argentina does ‘head spinning government cutting’ suddenly the economy rights itself in a few months....
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