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BRITAIN-USA and
SPAIN have all been tested to DESTRUCTION the IDEA
that MASS IMMIGRATION is a NET BENEFIT
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Privatising
profits-Socialising Costs
by
Anthony
Scholefield
Letter to eurofacts-3rd
October-2008
www.junepress.com
Dear Sir,
Your article on
Spain's economic problems (19th September-2008)
does not surprise. Britain, the USA and Spain have
all been testing to destruction the idea that
MASS IMMIGRATION
is a
NET BENEFIT?
Their
policies on immigration have reinforced the slack
money policies pursued since 2001. This has
led in ALL three instances to an
UNSUSTAINABLE BOOM
and ensured that it
will be these three countries
THAT WILL SUFFER
THE MOST
in the
PRESENT CRISIS.
The USA and Spain
have gone much further in pursuing a
PRO-IMMIGRATION
POLICY
than the
UK.
Spain has
consistently regularized the position of
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,
allowing them
therefore, to move throughout the
EUROPEAN UNION.
The latest amnesty
in 2005 regularized nearly
1,000,000
ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS
but, three years
later, there are a further
1,000,000
illegal immigrants.
Sarkozy, quite
correctly, rebuked the Spanish in 2005 for their
amnesty saying,
" We see the
damage created by the phenomenon of massive
regularization. Every country which has conducted an
operation of massive regularization finds itself the
next month [In a position that} does not allow it to
master the situation any more".
[WE HOPE! Gordon
Brown has now the sense to not talk so proudly of
the benefits of unlimited immigration to our already
crowded islanded which is now reputed to be the most
crowded place on the planet replacing Holland who
have held the top spot for many years.]
According to the
Spanish National Statistics (INE), Spain has 5.2
million immigrants and the largest number of
immigrants in the world, after the USA, and ,as you
point out, unemployment is already at 11 per cent.
[We would have
thought that England has a greater number of
immigrants than Spain when one considers that there
must be at least a million immigrants/asylum seekers
who have become lost to the authorities and in total
no doubt well above the stated figure by the
government.]
There is an open
dispute in the Spanish government, with some
ministers wanting
TO SHUT THE DOOR
but the
ultra-feminist deputy Prime Minister, Maria Teresa
Fernandez de la Vega, has stated,
"there will
be recruitment of foreign workers in their country
of origin because we need them".
It has always been
obvious that
MASS IMMIGRATION
of even those with
average skills but without capital must impoverish
the receiving country, while benefiting the
corporate and private employers of
CHEAP LABOUR
In effect the
latter privatize the benefits of immigration and
socialise the costs. This applies to an even
greater extent to those with below average skills
who also represent a FISCAL DRAIN.
The reason for
this is that the receiving country has to provide an
appropriate share of capital and wealth for new
residents. This capital is, in the case of the
UK, some 65 times the annual contribution of the
average worker in capital additions - an enormous
sum. In rough figures, each immigrant to the
UK with one dependent, requires
£150,000
of instant
funding but his contribution to the
GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT
of residents,
according to Mr Byrne, Minister of Immigration, is
about
£6 per year
[WELL! when
a country needs to have a MINISTER of IMMIGRATION
then one knows that IMMIGRATION is OUT OF CONTROL.
Are you still watching
Mr Brown while your country is falling into a deep
economic crisis made worse by your New Labour
inane and destructive policies?]
At least the UK
government and the Opposition have refused to go
down the route of regularizing illegals, [YET]
despite the urgings of Boris Johnson and numerous
ecclesiasticals. There have been some
under-the-counter regularizations due to breakdown
in the
IMMIGRATION CONTROL
PROCESS.
In the USA,
however, both Obama and McCain strongly advocate the
regularizing of illegal immigrants and both propose
to introduce proposals in Congress to achieve this
[Well! it will be a vote
catcher after all.]
While massive
immigration is far from being the only reason why
the USA, the UK and Spain find themselves the
countries most buffered by the present crisis their
economies have all been characterised by slack
money, a construction bubble and massive
immigration. By privatizing the benefits of
cheap labour and cheap money this has blinded the
political class to the
COSTS OF THE
BINGE.
These have been
met by the public taxpayer and low-income workers
who have to compete for reduced pay with the
immigrants
NO LONGER NEEDED
BY A BUBBLE ECONOMY.
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