Do you have evidence to say that immigration damages your country?

I am agreeable to sensible limits on immigration. However, before we go hating immigrants, we should remember, that unless you are a full-blood native American, almost all of us are decended from immigrants; Irish, English, Scandinavian, all of Europe, the middle east and Asia. Africans Americans are exempt since they were brought here by force against their will, so they are't really immigrants.

Yea there are loads but I am betting you don't really want to hear.. for a start there's environmental impact.. the UK is a very small country and the parts that tend to have the highest concentrations tend to be the least able to sustain it, e.g. water resources etc.. Loss of countryside and biodiversity is just one.... Resources like the NHS and schools is another.. problems like child sex rings and people trafficking.. In Germany increase in sexual crimes.. and so on... I could write so much more but as I say it's almost always pointless.. And BTW I am NO racist.. it's just that it's entirely wrong to say there is no impact or that the impact is always good..

Wow. Just wow. So many unsubstantiated claims and name-calling, but I think I only saw a single link to one article out of more than 200 replies? Is this really the best the anti-immigrant crowd can do? I really would like to read some well-researched articles that provide evidence of the damaging effects of immigrants. The ones I've seen tend to focus on the costs and leave out the financial contributions like paying taxes, increased spending, etc. I've seen a number of articles that provide actual data showing that the financial contributions of even illegal immigrants exceed the cost of the services they use. Surely someone must have researched information that would support the belief that immigration negatively impacts their country.

Anecdotally, I know that immigrants can negatively impact a specific area and service, though this would be a local or possibly regional impact, not a national one. I lived in a border city near Mexico for a few years, and the local hospital services were stretched thin by immigrant women who would cross the border to have their babies in the US, thus obtaining US citizenship for their offspring. The number of babies born far exceeded that which would be expected on the basis of the local population, and the hospitals provided those services on an emergency basis, even though the cost of extra nurses, doctors, and other personnel and infrastructure were costs they would never recover. That was well before 9/11, and crossing the border is much more difficult now than it was then, so it is likely less of an issue at present.

Why even ask if you or anybody else thinks it doesn't you are clearly a dumb arse

Undocumented means no security checks. In Algeria, plenty of terrorists moved in that way from other countries during the late 80s to 2001.
I am sure the same can happen elsewhere.

Also when competent individuals start moving out from the country in huge numbers, it damages the economy of their motherland.

I'm going to work tomorrow and need to sleep. If anyone can provide evidence of the damaging effects of immigration then I'll read the links and respond the next day.

If not, I won't bother because so far its been an epic fail from you guys. 🤦

Sweet dreams sweeps. 😘

Okay. Here you go. Washington Examiner. $135 billion annually. Illegal immigration.

Because you would not clarify the question, just as you don’t want to read a whole paper to find the information, I don’t want to spend my time on a spreadsheet.

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I will be eagerly waiting to learn why this is not legitimate information and how I am an immigrant-hating bigot.

I mean, Canada wouldn't exist without immigration. Maybe the First Nations people have some very strong opinions about it, but otherwise we not only require immigration, but we need a LOT MORE. Underpopulation is causing all sorts of logistical problems.

Statistics? Why let those get in the way of hysteria , and xenophobia?

Interesting that no one can give any evidence

I would never say immigration damages my country. Anecdotally, the high tech industry I am very familiar with, was made possible thanks to immigrants. Apple's Jobs is the son of a Syrian Muslim immigrant, who started out as an illegal immigrant, for instance.

As to a more general purpose study:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-impact-on-the-u-s-economy-in-7-charts/

Welfare

one immigrant committed a crime once, I know that's not what you wanted in actuality but you left it open for use

Conclusions

19. In the short term the UK needs to build more homes. In the future, any housing strategy must address both supply and demand. Immigration is a major part of housing demand. Unless net migration is reduced to a manageable and sustainable level a large house building programme will have to continue indefinitely, with all the costs and loss of amenities involved.

Updated 17 January, 2018

Settlement occurs where work opportunities exist. Sadiq Kahn has told all 32, London boroughs to develope and to do it aggressively. In my borough there is a call for sites taking place, planning constraints to be lifted and amenities of open space developed. Overtime the landscape will change. High density concentrated development in suburban areas will IMHO, ruin those areas. People will not settle where there is no easy access or commute to work. The building targets will not be met. I reckon 30% of target is achievable at a push and on that scale a lot of people will feel areas are ripped apart and ruined where scarce amenity space is taken away.

I would say European immigration and conquest had a deleterious effect on aboriginal "nations" of the New World.😌

In order to determine impact, it is necessary for you to define ‘immigration’ as encompassing all immigrants, immigrants entering the country in question legally, or those entering without fulfilling legal requirements for admission.

It does suppress wages in low-skill industries.

I’m pro-immigration, but that’s something to address.

Planned and controlled its fantastic. Unplanned economic migration to the UK has had a significant impact on some communities where the infrastructure cannot support volume Rogue private landlords have exploited vulnerable groups. Where settlement is high it's created community cohesion problems. Demand for housing in city areas has pushed rents sky high. Meanwhile wages have been held artificially low for too long with cheap labour. Many people I speak with, particularly the younger generation feel forgotton.

Yes. The avocados in California are rotting on the trees because they can't find people to hire to pick them. All because Trumps immigration polices are keeping people willing to do that work from the workplace. No Trump Supporter will do this work. Killing the small to mid sized farmers.

Well. As I am told, all immigration since reconstruction has had a negative influence on America. That's the current political position. So yea. I don't know how one defends that.

I don't know why it's not enough to just end illegal immigration.

138 comments and... How much evidence so far?

Immigration is positive, it brings useful skills into a country and diversity means a culture doesn't get stale it keeps things fresh to have different perspectives.

Burnley I am not against immigration , but here in the UK, it has to be controlled, we are a small country, and we can not keep taking hundreds of thousands each year, we have NHS, can't cope, housing shortage , and schools can't keep taking them. And when people say that it's not down to immigration, I say well where do all these people live, where do they get medical attention. And where do there kids go to school then

Sorry - I don't have any evidence that immigration has damaged my country.

dude this is sw. 80% of the people here are extreme nationalists and hate immigrants

Yes.

I’m not sure what you’re looking for. 🤔