• Wanderer
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    5 months ago

    Or the everyone is just ignoring the issue.

    Rhetorically because this conversation is going to go nowhere. What would need to happen for immigration to actually be an issue?

    Because people that tell us low wages (not GDP increase but working class wages for locals), high house prices, and other things people mention like losing culture and crime increasing isn’t an issue. So what would it take for it to be an issue.

    A lot of people, usually the rich that own businesses and land and can make money off immigration, say it’s not a problem. I think rather than choosing a side and ignoring the issues people should wonder what would be a bad outcome then looking at things after.

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      The rich making money off immigration isn’t an issue with the immigrants, it’s that we don’t force companies to pay all their workers the same wage, regardless of status. That’s a regulatory problem, not an immigration problem.

      Because people that tell us low wages (not GDP increase but working class wages for locals), high house prices, and other things people mention like losing culture and crime increasing isn’t an issue. So what would it take for it to be an issue.

      None of this is related to immigration. Immigrants aren’t raising housing prices. With crime you have to actually prove that that’s immigrants committing more crimes than Europeans and what kind of crime. They call brown immigrants criminals and rapists here too, and it’s simply not true, they commit crimes at the same rate as citizens.

      You have to understand that this is a pattern we see over, and over throughout history; when fascists want to seize control they blame immigrants for all of socieyies woes. And they do so only with rhetoric or twisted facts, not the truth.

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        You never really answered the question though. What would have to happen for immigration to be a problem in your eyes? I’m just trying to get you to open you mind rather than sitting on your team. Look at the situation objectively first.

        No its basic supply and demand for both wages and for housing. If you have a limited supply and demand increases prices can only increase. Is supply increases and demand the same wages go down.

        Denmark has run the numbers for crime by country of origin which is direct proof. But then places like Sweden also have indirect proof like now having to keep a record of grenade attacks when they didn’t 20+ years ago.

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          It’s a real wonder why people with less possibilities can become influenced by crime, regardless of birthplace, and still countries push new residents into those situations

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            5 months ago

            You mean bringing in people like that.

            A country could you know. Not bring them in. Issue is solved then.

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              5 months ago

              You mean bringing in people like that.

              There is so much in this sentence to unpack im not sure where to begin.

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                Are you saying they magically become different people once they are in the country?

                A country can choose to let that person in or not.

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                  Are you saying they magically become different people once they are in the country?

                  Do you honestly believe people think that?

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              Not bring who in? What’s the deciding factor, precogs evaluating if someone does crime in the future? Not bring people who are born there and already stuck in lower classes. The problems don’t care about immigration, it’s the bourgeoisie waging class warfare.

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                  5 months ago

                  All those African colonies that France ruled for centuries; immigrants from those countries should be denied, just because they are Black immigrants?

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                    Not becayse theyre black, but because theres simply too many immigrants. A country can only handle so much.

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                Well lots of countries have immigration requirements or points based systems. So it is obvious that countries already use means to choose which immigrants it wants.

                This just needs expansion. You look at immigrants or children of immigrants that commit more crime than locals or contribute less than locals and you don’t bring them in. Because bringing them in makes the country worse.

                It’s obviously an average but that is all immigration requirements are.

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                  That doesn’t make sense, a new immigrant is in no way responsible for someone else’s crime

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                    Why don’t they just let anyone in they? Why have rules on which people are allowed to immigrate and which aren’t?