What do you think about immigrants / immigration?

Question

I'm curious to know how you feel about it!
Thanks!

Answer 1

I think that the debate shouldn't always be about undesireable immigrants but desireable ones too - and about legal immigration after all there should be a reasonable process implemented by reasonable people. Illegal immigraion should be stamped out and illegals just sent back. There however should be a intelligible and workable legal process that people can use rather than the shambles that is the British Home office.

Answer 2

It can be a good thing for all concerned when it's done right.

Immigrants need to follow the rules for immigration and do things legally.

Immigrants need to learn the culture and language enough to survive and work, without an interpreter.

Immigrants need to integreat into society and segregate only for cultural interactioins.

Immigrants also need to be patriotic to their new land, otherwise why move. You move for a reason. If you're not patriotic the reasons you moved for could vanish and then you'll be bad off in a place you don't like.

Let's take a simple example. An American relocating to London. You can't keep referring to the LIFT as an ELEVATOR. You can't keep referring to a FLAT as an APARTMENT, you can't keep referring to a HIRE as a RENTAL, do this and you will alienate people. They already know your a Yank from your accent.

You also have to respect the Queen and the Monarchy and the traditions.

You can't keep running off to the Americna Embassy to help you with pull.

You ahve to manage your own pull by learning the rules and learning how to flow in society.

YOu need to learn to appreciate English Football and Cricket.

Yeah, on occasional days you can go with your Yankee friends to the park and play American Touch football or Basketball or baseball.

You can can get together for Thanksgiving in November, because it's an old traiditional dinner with family and friends.

YOu don't have to eat a traiditional English Breakfast, but you should experience the local food and see what you like.

IF everyone else takes a tea break, so should you. Maybe you can drink coffee instead of tea if you don't like tea.

YOu can also be enterprising, Setting up an American business could be profitable, catch the American trade and even covert the British trade.

A BBQ beef sandwich stand might go over. There's nothing wrong with trying it.

Mexican immigrants in the US have had a small factor on the American public that now gets into soft tacos and choreso and eggs for breakfast. But it's still not a widely accepted eating habit in America yet. Most Americans still can't handle Horchata. (I'll bet you don't even know what Horchata is!)

Arabs and PErsians have managed to integreat Fallafel into American society.

Answer 3

1. The citizens of a country, which does not allow immigration should be forbidden to work, buy property, marry abroad, etc. or in any way leave their country to live somewhere else.
2. There should be reasonable legal opportunities for immigration into a country.
3. Immigrants should abide to the host country's rules.

Answer 4

Not wanted, not needed. Government policy on this issue should not be considered personal. I am sure that the vast majority of immigrants are perfectly nice people, but that is not the point because Governments don't operate at the personal level. Their responsibility is to the existing indigenous population.

Does 'klc30' actually believe that the government assess the number of immigrants that are needed and then lets in only the required number with the skills deemed necessary. Who the hell does he think he is kidding and where has he been in recent years. Three and a half million people on benefits should be on the employment register, even the Government admits this. We are DEFINITELY not short of numbers in this country, and, if we are short of skills, it is because of this governments disastrous education programme since it came to power. Many of the skills we are poaching from abroad are needed more in the country that they are leaving. BUT CONTROLLED, IT CERTAINLY IS NOT.

Answer 5

I am in favor of legal immigration. I am a legal immigrant to Brazil from the U.S.A. I do not have any problems with immigration because America is the land of opportunity. We need to have moral and ethics when dealing with opportunity, of course, though. America is based on freedom and everyone's equal right. Immigrants have different reasons for coming to America, whether it be money, culture, etc. There have been laws established to measure and regulate the number of people immigrating so the population doesn't overflow aside from the original American people. My ancestors immmigrated from Scotland in the mid-1800's. Most "Americans'" ancestors came from somewhere else, didn't they? The U.S.A isn't very old in years in compared to many countries. We are in demand, but like in other countries, there is a controlable population increase. Immigration is part of the population increase. It is beginning to get out of control, however. I believe that how we deal with immigration can be good or bad, but immigration itself is not good nor bad. Each case must be dealt with on its own.

Answer 6

I am strongly against any more immigrants coming in legally or illegally. This country simply can't cope anymore. I do agree that there are many immigrants who have come over here and are working hard and contributing to society but on the other hand there are too many coming here claiming benefits left right and centre. Not only that we are letting terrorists in to incite hatred on our streets and even they have scrounged millions of pounds of our hard earned money and its WRONG. Our government are a bunch of pansies who have no guts to speak up for their people in case they get sued for breach of human rights. These extremists amongst us continue to plot more atrocities even after doing their damage once already in London. Enough is enough is say. More should be done to route these evil animals out and make this country great again and close the doors.

Answer 7

The plus side to immigration is the richness of culture it brings and the greater understanding of other cultures and the challenge to prejuduces, along with a diversity to what the host country has to offer and the business profile it can offer the world.
The minus side is that people are exploited, abused, robbed, accussed and lied to. They also have to face small minded attitudes and stereotyping on an appauling scale which "blames" them for everything from terrorism to increased crime and benefit fraud. This is also done with scant or no evidence and assumes the indigenous population is not capable of the same kind of crimes.

Answer 8

Immigrants are necessary in any capitalist society. Every year the govt assesses how many immigrants the country actually needs to help bolster the economy because these are the people that serve your fast food, your drinks, clean your workplaces and streets etc.

I don't believe that all immigration "bastardises" the culture of a country. There is no culture anymore in Britain because Britain has allowed itself to "bastardised" by US culture.

To the racist guy who states that Britain was founded by White Christians - well he needs to learn his history. People were living in Britain long before Christianity. Britain was a druid culture long before it was a Christian culture. One more thing - the likelihood of Jesus (the founder of Christianity) being white is incredibly small. He was most likely middle eastern in appearance - that's right, he probably looked like a Muslim.

I totally agree with legal immigration. I also totally agree with giving people asylum. Especially those from former African colonies. After all these people are simply suffering from the mess that Britain left behind after abandoning the colonies.

And to those who say we are letting terrorists in who incite hatred, have they ever thought about throwing people who support the BNP out of the country. After all they incite hatred too.

Answer 9

We immigrated to Uk. We are civilised people, we try to do our best to do things the way the Brits do but i am still happy our kids were brought up where i come from. Our kids were brought up to respect everybody whether black,white ,coloured or whatever. In every person their is a form of racism in just shows itself in different ways. I cannot honestly say that i do have times when i utterly dislike different cultures but then there are thousands more people who are good and kind. You cannot judge all people because of the wrong a few does. When we moved to Uk i was the last person in the house to know about it. It came as a total shock to me. Having to leave our lovely home with a fantastic seaview, my friends and family behind broke my heart. I still find it very difficult to adjust to the english society but am trying my best. I am petrified of hoodies they scare me to death where i come from murder is the order of the day, raping is the order of the day and so many , many different crimes. I personally find the majority of english people lovely and specially the older people and i thank those who try and make our life's easier. Thank you.

Answer 10

People who come to the UK from abroad are not necessarily immigrants.

Due to the international nature of business/education, many workers in the banks and other major institutions (including universities etc) are here as foreign-nationals with work-permits, and they are absolutely vital to our economy and national interests.

With considerable shortfalls in available labour, the influx of migrant workers (quite legally) from the EU, has been beneficial to the overall economy, and in any event, if UK businesses wish to set-up shop in places like Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia or Lithuania, they need people from these countries to come and work here, learn about the organisation, and then become the front-line staff in any new business venture abroad.

It is also true that the same will apply to migrant workers from India and China: both rapidly developing economies.

Naturally, there are a fair number of illegal immigrants, for whom I have little sympathy. They are usually economic migrants, who make false claims about their status and claim to
be refugees. As for those who use the various trafficking methods to enter the country, they should be removed from the country without delay.

The biggest group of recent migrant workers are the Poles....possibly as many as 300,000+ (if anyone had cared to count them in and out). They are decent folk, hard-working folk and totally compatible with our way of life. They represent not the slightest threat to our own customs and way of life. The fact that they are rather charming is a big plus point, and I know quite a lot of English boys who just adore Polish girls, and vice versa!

The same is true of Czechs, Slovaks, Lithuanians and Latvians, who are here in lesser numbers.

As a people, we also have long ties with India, and I think it would be fair to say that we do not have a problem with the Sikh or Indian communities; both of whom seem to have a good sense of humour and a fairly outgoing social sense. They are also quite suuccessful and often very affluent. In fact, the Indians can be extremely entertaining and comical, and they tend to respect the traditional values of the UK. Indain doctors are among the best in our health-service.

I can't really comment upon African/Black immigrants, because I have seldom come into contact with them. Of the black people I know, most are second and third generation, and for the most part, I have never had a problem with them.

As for the Muslim Asian population, I think that there IS a problem, which possibly derives from the fact that they tend to be socially organised around a bastardized religion on the one hand, and family loyalties and traditions on the other; both of which are possibly in direct conflict with the traditions of the UK.

Caught between two completely opposite set of values, the young Muslims are alienated both from their own culture and that of their white peers. As is often the case, this results in a cycle of anti-social attitudes, petty criminality, deprivation, ghetto-thinking and a degree of hostile activity, which seems never to get any better, and if anything, actually worse.

I don't have an answer to the latter problem, but I believe that people who are indigenous UK citizens talking about immigration, should avoid the easy path of ignorantly tarring all-comers as "aliens", when in point of fact, they are not.

There is a tremendous difference between those born here who are 2nd or 3rd generation of immigrant families, those who are purely temporary migrants, those who are here as students, those who are working in multi-national organisations subject to a work permit, genuine asylum-seekers, bogus economic-migrants and those who are here illegally.

If there is one encouraging fact, it is that people do not usually bite the hand that feeds them, and both immigrant and migrant workers have a vested interest in keeping the UK ship afloat.

It's not as bad as people think, but obviously, there has to be some dgree of adaptation, which the less intelligent and less skilled will always find difficult.

The problem is, that such people only ever find a voice within organisations like the BNP, who feed on their fears and distort the truth to their own advantage. The simple fact is, the BNP are a set of thuggish dim-wits, who know nothing much about the way society and the economy work.