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

@SW-User Perhaps or perhaps not. I depends on the place and whether the negative impact can reasonably be balanced by positives brought by technological improvement. It also involves a lot of huge and complex historical countre-factuals. For example: would Africa have developed better without the west? To what extent is the legacy of imperialism responsible for current wars in Africa? That would be a very interesting debate for another post though. :-)

@Burnley123 I was referring to native populations of the New World where there are some pretty good estimates of the genocide(s) that occurred.

@SW-User OK. I agree with you. I also think you know that that is not the point of my question. 😜

@Burnley123 It wasn't.

@SW-User It's reasonable to make a distinction between colonialism and immigration.

@CountScrofula It is, I agree. The immigration of Europeans to America was the cause or rationalization for some pretty bad policies, too.

@SW-User Immigration is not inherently colonial. The Americas were literally turned into colonies and the local peoples suffered brutally from it. To this day, it is a constant battle for them to assert their own culture and beliefs because of colonial influences.

Stopping immigration, or increasing immigration has absolutely no impact on that. They could vastly outnumber the settlers and still be subject to colonialism. It's about whether or not they have authority and some measure of power. They can get that and still allow for immigration.

I've been to talks by elders on this, and their line has consistently been immigration is fine provided we have our say.