Are immigrants good things or bad things?

Question

You tell me ???

Answer 1

Not worth giving an answer - the race demons will trot the usual dogma out.

Answer 2

Legal immigrant professionals are doing good things to our nation as they are filling up all those vacant positions which our own nationals cannot do. The NHS wouldn't be what it is today without the doctors and nurses who are working their hearts out but still continue to be blamed unnecessarily. Teachers too, are playing a great role and again criticism continues to be directed at them for no particular reason. I can go on here, but in short, I think the legal immigrants have contributed towards the well-being of this nation in a remarkable way.
As for illegal immigrants, they only come into the limelight when they commit a crime, and it is through this that we view them as a bad influence in our society. It is those with criminal tendencies who have tarnished the good cause of immigration and the law should take its course in uprooting them.
Overall, we should strive to live side by side with our new neighbours for they are times we also become immigrants.

Answer 3

Some immigration is good. BUT the influxes of late are bad!!!! Immigration needs CONTROLS!!
Immigration is not essential to our economic growth. It adds to economic growth but also adds nearly proportionately to our population so that the benefit to the host community is small.
Immigrants will have little impact on our ability to pay pensions in future. The Turner Commission dismissed this argument for the simple reason that immigrants too will age and require pensions. Their financial input to the Exchequer is, despite government claims, approximately neutral.
Immigration is welcome to many employers because it holds down pay levels, especially for the unskilled, and contributes to lower interest rates. It can also be a source of cheap skilled labour with no training costs. But it is the tax payer who picks up all the costs of the extra infrastructure required.
To the extent that immigration holds down wages it makes it more difficult for the government to achieve their stated aim of moving from welfare to work the 1.5 million unemployed and the 2.7 million on Incapacity Benefit. There are now one million young people in Britain who are neither in work nor in education.
Are immigrants doing jobs the British will no longer do? No. In large parts of Britain where there are few, if any, immigrants British people are doing all these jobs. The fundamental problem is the benefits trap. Wages are held down to a level where for some there is little benefit in working rather than collecting benefits. Wages should be allowed to rise to make lower paid jobs worthwhile and to encourage productivity. Increasing productivity is the only way that a nation can become richer.
There is growing resentment among the native population of whom 70 – 80% wish to see a tougher immigration policy. They feel that their concerns are being ignored, or dismissed; only 10% feel that the government is listening to public opinion on immigration. The ethnic population is also concerned about the direction of events. A majority of them (55%) also wish to see tighter immigration control. A majority of the population (69%) feel that Britain is losing its own culture.

Answer 4

ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME THE ENGLISH TOOK ENGLAND BACK!

I'm not racist... but I do think that the English system is completely wrong and that we cant possibly carry on this Way we are meant to be one of the most influential countries in the world and yet we make the most pollution where we have TOO many people here already!

On this basis I sway to the opinion that immigrants are no longer good things and that we should have our country back!

Answer 5

Legal immigrants are good people not "things"
Illegal aliens are not good for the US.
Illegal aliens work for substandard wages here in the USA but they are still making more money in a day than they can make in a week or more in their home country's.No one forces the illegal to work for the low wages,its their choice to enter into this nation via the illegal route..

Answer 6

WOW that is an open question. Immigrants in general are GOOD thing and we have to start with the MAYFLOWER.

Answer 7

If immigrants is a bad thing, who would work in your factories for peanuts?

Answer 8

There are tooo many Mexicans and they have too many kids and they cause too many car wrecks cause they drink tooo much beer there are tooo many livin in a one bedrm apartment, I say send em all back How many do u know have car insurance? ALso in Tennessee they are causing too many crimes!

Answer 9

girl above me shut up! Your kind is not ALL that either. And just for the record, its not out faults that we work and black people hmm..whats that word, ignorant.

Answer 10

THINGS IS THE RIGHT THING TO SAY