I don't dislike immigration - I am currently a migrant, and will be for the foreseeable future.
But, what I do strongly disilike is:
Rapid mass immigration
and
mass low-skilled immigration
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My main reasons are:
1.
I accept that these bennifit the overal economy, but I strongly contest that this bennefit is shared equally be the native population. For me mass uncontrolled low-skilled immigration heavily bennifits the rich and the middle/upper-middle classes, but harms the poorer and the working class considerably. It always amazes me when you get middle class kids who protest against the tories for harming the working class, whilst supporting open boarders.
Immigration is a rich mans game, his business get great cheap labour, and his appartments have nice immigrant families renting them.. But the working class see strain on the services they cant pay to avoid, and see their wages undercut, competition for their jobs increased, and their communities segregated.
2. I believe that monocultural societies produce the best living standards and wellbeing for their citizens. That does not exclude immigration, because its perfectly possible for migrants to integrate culturually to a point where they are a huge bennifit to the culture as a whole. But it does exclude rapid mass immigration. The evidence is clear to see, the smaller the number of migrants the faster the intergration. Why? because they have no other choice. I am the only english person in a my town here in China - I have to integrate and fit in, there is no alternative. But Were I to live in one of the expat hubs of shanghai, I could live an entirely english life within another society. The same thing happened here.. back in the 50s-60s when immigration was much less, people integrated far better and far quicker, and those families are now a huge asset and a proud part of our society. What is not working now is importing thousands of migrants into migrant-dominated areas, who have can perfectly maintain their own culture, because of the sheer mass in a single area. It creates isolated segregated zones inside major cities, it creates racial tensions as people mistake their anger in cultural differences with racial differences, and it weakens society as a whole.
Once again this disproportionately effects the working class. The middle and upper classes in their rural subburbs/towns/villiages, barely see it.. and when they do see immigrants, they are the highly successful ones who have managed to establish themselves, or came with enough money to jump straight there. They don't see the poorer areas, and how it effects working class communities.