One thing I've noticed about immigrants is that they are overwhelmingly pro immigration. Whatever part of the world they come from, and whatever country they go to, they take offence at any hint that immigration might not be the best thing since sliced bread. In my view it has been a disaster, particularly for England, which has absorbed a disproportionately large number of immigrants to both the UK and the EU.
But why expect that immigrants have to be pro immigration? You may consider the contrary point of view hypocritical - how can an immigrant be anti immigration?
But what if an overwhelming majority of the native English - ie the people who gave the immigrant a refuge from persecution, the opportunity of getting a job, healed his sick, educated his kids - want immigration cut drastically or stopped altogether? How does an immigrant then justify a pro immigration point of view?
Surely such a point of view has to be taken as being hostile to the interests of the English people. Surely the only decent response is that they respect the opinion of the English on the matter.
Immigrants or their descendants who then get into politics and start pushing a ridiculous open doors policy on immigration, knowing the general feeling about immigration are in my view contemptible ingrates and traitors who should have their citizenship revoked and be booted out of the country.
I quite agree with your viewpoint and want the same type of policy in America. While we have no ethnic homogeneity, I do believe we should totally stop the flood of immigration despite of the whine of liberals who point to our past and the statue of Liberty. Those earlier immigrants worked their tails off to succeed...immigrants today come in and get on the dole and badmouth the country, and all the while the government is accomodating them with free medical, food, healthcare for their children, bilingual education (learn English for God's sake!) I'm bloody well sick of it.
ReplyDeletePoliticians should have studied different cultures and their histories to which cultures are likely to bring actual positive benefits to the country and which are more likely to cause problems.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't do this, and as a result in both the UK and US we have an ever growing hostile minority which will have to be dealt with one way or another, sooner or later.