Thread: Cost of Immigration

Originally Posted by Robski

My point was that you are highlighting a problem brought to your attention by the Daily Mail

It is brought to my attention when I walk down the street & harrassed by little chilren begging, when I use a cashpoint & trip over some dude with his hand out, when people are being laid-off or contracts cancelled because the going rate for a job's halved, I see the problems, first-hand, every day & it's all over - all - the newspapers because it's the topic on everybody's mind - if you're the one being affected by them.

There was an announcement in work not to walk through a certain part of the town centre at night any more if you're on the late shift. They are doing this on the back of some of the softer side of the workforce being mugged at knifepoint by Romanians. I know who they are because they are who I buy my weed from. There are genuine concerns by good, genuine people who aren't what you guys sterotypically call racist - or judged because we read a certain newspaper (that is discrimination & exactly what you're telling me not to do).

but what do you consider should be done to solve the problem? The Daily Mail doesn't offer solutions to the fear and loathing it stirs up does it? So what do you think should be done?

Forget throwing the Mail around, a very small portion of my knowledge comes from the newspaper, but a lot of interesting theads do.

As for what to do about all this mess? Shut the door, hang a No Vancies sign in the window, draw the curtains & wind down the Benefits Agency.

Originally Posted by Clockwork Orange

I'm against being milked to death to buy them cars & stuff & there should be a limit on the numbers. If, after proper examination of the facts, we are up to or over a fair limit then it's time to pull the shutter down.

That's the reason I left my home country 20 years ago, and you UK guys are first seeing it now ???...slow reaction time I must say..

We figured all this out years ago, but some people have got their heads in the sand over the issue & have to talk using another part of their body.

Thailand has a good immigration policy.

Immigrants are to blame for Global Warming, too



Mass immigration imposes 'congestion costs, diverts investment to new infrastructure and housing, impinges on space and amenity and accelerates the output of waste and greenhouse gas emissions.'

Influx of immigrants 'costs every UK household £350 a year' | the Daily Mail

Originally Posted by astasinim

I have to question, if some of you who constantly flame him actually live in the UK?

Firstly, nobody is "flaming" him. Secondly I don't think that anybody has said that immigration isn't causing a problem.

The fact remains however that CO (and the Daily Mail for that matter) presents a distorted and inflammatory picture. Unsubstantiated, melodramtic and emotive nonsense such as imagery of little old ladies being mugged for their pensions, all immigrants being on benefits, "race wars" and all the while totally ignoring the contributions immigrants do make to both the economy and society in general.

It's gross generalisation and none of which helps the issue in the slightest. All it does is serve to obscure it and create even further problems.

Originally Posted by astasinim

Well i think Clockwork orange makes a very valid argument. How he chooses to present his argument may not be as eloquent as some of you would like, but that does not make him wrong. I have to question, if some of you who constantly flame him actually live in the UK? If indeed you do reside here, then such places as the leafy suburbs of Epsom really dont count do they? I can only speak of the places i frequent. but where i work in Leeds we have an extremely large "minority" population, which i would say has tripled over the last 2 or 3 years. Almost every person i have spoken to in the past six months, has expressed a concern over immigration, some of these people are friends, some colleagues, and some complete strangers. The question is, are these people racists? I would say most certainly not. Do we have a problem with immigration? Possibly, and this needs to be addressed. Do we have a problem with immigrant gangs? Yes we do, but no more of a problem than we do with English white gangs, except perhaps the brutality thats dished out. Do they integrate well? Not really no, but thats our fault as much as theirs. So, what do we do about it?????? Fekked if i know. __________________ Scott

Seems to me that you both speak for the USA and it's immigration problems too, but if you post about it you will recieve the same answers from the same people, and most have never lived there or even been there but seem to be experts on the subject in all places anyway..

Originally Posted by JimmyCA

Thailand has a good immigration policy.

What policy ?? Oh, this one. you have money you can stay, if not piss off. That policy ??

Originally Posted by blackgang

Seems to me that you both speak for the USA and it's immigration problems too, but if you post about it you will recieve the same answers from the same people, and most have never lived there or even been there but seem to be experts on the subject in all places anyway.

Sure, but you know Bristol is overrun by Romanian "fukcs", and illegal welfare-mothers ruin the US, the chain-mails you receive in Isan keep you well informed of these facts.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Firstly, nobody is "flaming" him.

What do you consider calling another poster "shitman"?

It's not welcome, and I'll delete if it happens again.

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Firstly, nobody is "flaming" him.

What do you consider calling another poster "shitman"?

It's not welcome, and I'll delete if it happens again.

That's his name. Bloody hell Stroller, sometimes I worry about you.

Red on the way.

Originally Posted by Begbie

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Firstly, nobody is "flaming" him.

What do you consider calling another poster "shitman"?

It's not welcome, and I'll delete if it happens again.

That's his name. Bloody hell Stroller, sometimes I worry about you.

Red on the way.

Sensitive sausage, innit. Not adverse to the odd bit of word-play/name puns hisself as I recall.

^Sensitive, Stroller 5555

Originally Posted by Dalton

Originally Posted by JimmyCA

Thailand has a good immigration policy.

What policy ?? Oh, this one. you have money you can stay, if not piss off. That policy ??

You have described it perfectly, other countries should take note

Originally Posted by stroller

Sure, but you know Bristol is overrun by Romanian "fukcs", and illegal welfare-mothers ruin the US, the chain-mails you receive in Isan keep you well informed of these facts.

I lived there Stroller, I was very close to the subject, my "Xwife" got a fraud visa based on her "Marriage" to me to come to the states, and as soon as she got off a bus, went to social security and signed up for her $300 a month, got on a bus and went back south and got a cousins car, went to Ensenada and smuggled a daughter across on the cousins kid birth cert., then ran a $6000 bill up at the ER in our local hospital when her kid broke an arm, drawed illegal $300 a month from SSA for over a year before they would believe me that she did not qualify. Plus drawing welfare because I would not let her and her kid live in my house..
Tell me that I do not know what the Messicans are doing to the state of Calif welfare what with most of her sisters and brothers drawing it, I lived in Central/southern Calif as well as mexico. Not Hamburg..

And BTW, I haven't been over to ISSAN in 5 years,...

So if all Mexicans are like your ex-wife, it's fair to say you're representative of all Americans?

Sheesh, no wonder the place is focked!

How long ago was this, bg?
And did you live in the UK before?

And since we are comparing notes, I was a (legal) immigrant to the UK, so I also know what I am talking about, though this was a long time ago.

Still, politics and statistics are a different matter, and one does not need extensive personal experience to challenge some of the prejudices voiced here.

England was fucked well before the latest influx of immigrants turned up, but the immigrants serve several functions, one of which is to focus the hatred of the population and keep their eyes off all the corruption being carried out by the government in the name of the population and for which the taxpayer genarally picks up the bill.
When it comes to divisive politics the UK is a master of it, keep 'em dumb and keep 'em angry, hey if it ain't broke don't try and fix it.

BTW stroller why did you remove my post highlighting the fact that CO buys his weed off immigrants?
Rather hypocritical on his part I thought.

This is not UK, But You brought it up and is relevant.

Excessive immigration is sinking Golden State - DASA - Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
Excessive immigration is sinking Golden State

By Yeh Ling-Ling
Published October 5, 2003, in the Contra Costa Times

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Excessive immigration has direct impact on Californians' most basic concerns. It affects the economic and political future of California and the United States. Even so, this critical issue has been largely ignored by most leaders.

There are at least 400,000 illegal immigrant students in California's schools.

The cost of educating a child averages $6,000 or more a year. Illegal immigrant parents are mostly low-skilled. Even if they do pay taxes, their tax payments are not enough to offset the cost of educating their children, let alone other expensive services and infrastructure.

Currently, more than 25 percent of our federal prison inmates are illegal aliens who committed crimes. Many county hospitals are on the verge of bankruptcy because of the care that they provide to illegal immigrant families.

Instead of urging the federal government to reduce immigration, enforcement of immigration laws, and deportation of those here illegally, many politicians actively advocate an amnesty and benefits for over 2 million illegal aliens in California. They favor free health care, driver's licenses, in-state tuition to state universities, free tuition in California community colleges and other measures that will encourage more illegal immigration.

Is it responsible to reward those who have broken laws with benefits while cutting programs that negatively impact American and legal immigrant families?

Immigration advocates claim that illegal immigrants are needed to boost California's economy. If this were true, why is it that California, the largest illegal-immigration-receiving state, is experiencing its worst budgetary deficits? The truth is that jobs that illegal aliens are holding in California are still performed by many poor Americans in states that have low levels of immigration.

California still has millions of low-skilled unemployed or underemployed legal residents, able-bodied welfare recipients, and nonviolent prison inmates. Why not give incentives to them to fill those positions? Why continue to spend billions every year to provide services to illegals?

But as far as this copied, it is wrong that tax payers pay for education, they don't,, that is payed by property taxes on homes and real property..

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Indeed, this is not about the UK.
Start a topic in US domestic, perhaps?

Originally Posted by Robski

BTW stroller why did you remove my post highlighting the fact that CO buys his weed off immigrants?

I didn't, but another mod thought a post consisting of a singular smilie wasn't contributing anything worthwhile.

Ok thanks, I was laughing so hard that words failed me.