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

@Mamapolo2016 Hmm... I dealt with that in the question kind of. Perhaps illegal immigrants can have a positive impact too? I have heard that the economy of California would actually struggle to function without illegal immigrants. They are being exploited sure but why blame the victim?

@Burnley123 I’m not blaming anybody. I am solidly in favor of legal immigration and the clarification of immigration law in general.

I asked because in my view legal immigration is far and away a general positive for the receiving country. The US admits an average of one million legal immigrants annually. That’s roughly four times the number Canada admits annually.

The legality of immigration affects the impact in a number of ways, financial and otherwise. Law enforcement costs is one such area. Clarify and solidify the law and those costs might very well drop significantly.

It is true that European immigrants drastically negatively impacted the aboriginal populations. Since I wasn’t there at the time, there’s not much I can do about that.

The broad jump that takes one from hearing an American question immigration law, the enforcement or the need to get everyone on the same page, however that page is numbered to assuming they are immigrant-hating bigots ought to hold an Olympic gold medal, because it is an epic jump indeed.

It might be educational for those in other nations who have such loathing for Americans who ask about legality to take a look at their OWN country’s immigration quotas per capita, per land acre, per whatever.

It takes a lot of vetting and sorting to determine how statistics are compiled and who/what is included in that compilation.

I was going to try to formulate answers to your question, but if you will not or cannot clarify the question, then it’s not a serious question, is it?

The link below offers figures about the cost of immigration. The paper, The Washington Examiner, is reported to have slightly right leanings but considered to provide ‘usually accurate’ reportage of data and figures.

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@Mamapolo2016 Its a reasonable response but the link is to stories with one-off examples and not stats. If you can remember a story with stats then post it and I'll read it but asking me to read through everything a paper has written on immigration is a big ask.

[quote]It might be educational for those in other nations who have such loathing for Americans who ask about legality to take a look at their OWN country’s immigration quotas per capita, per land acre, per whatever.[/quote]

I'm not sure but this might be aimed at me. I am highly critical of my own country's politics and have argued with several fellow Brits on here. This question is not America specific. I have been to America several times, I have an American ex-wife and I like the country. I have a lot of political opinions but do not hate Americans.

@Burnley123 It was not aimed at you. It was aimed at those who take the position ‘don’t do as we do, do as we say.’

@Mamapolo2016 OK. Fair enough. I apologise for reading that wrong.