SamuelRSmith on 15 June 2012
| Kantor said: I like the idea as well. One of the right wing ideas I dislike (especially since even UKIP espouse it) is this unconditional hatred of immigrants. They provide labour, and quite often can start their own businesses. If they're just going on welfare, they shouldn't really be here/there, but if they are willing to work to earn their keep, then the USA would do well to have them. |
People opposed to immigration on economic grounds tend to fall into the seen/unseen fallacy (so, they see an immigrant working a job, but they don't see the other jobs that the immigrant has created through their consumption- typically, it works out that for every job taken by an immigrant, a new job is created elsewhere).
That's what I've been saying for a long time. The USA/UK doesn't have an immigration problem, they have welfare problems.
