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this is going to be an unpopular take but you've said a bunch of vaguely-sounding popular things but have missed the main issues with immigration.
Anyone who says they want to limit immigration for cultural reasons (e.g. I may wear a hat you don't like, or speak a different language, or comb my hair in a different way) is lying.
"but so-and-so said..."
they were lying.
It boils down to this: if you can meet a (surprisingly low) wage in your new host country, you are a net benefit to that country and will be welcomed.
All that about burqas, treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights is irrelevant. All that stuff about assimilating, or values, or tough restrictions is nonsense. Politicians say that stuff all the time. But it's a lie. The truth is in the policy and the policy says: if you earn roughly USD$20k or local equivalent a year: welcome home!
Now people may think it should be different - but that I'd not the reality.
So, what are you suggesting? I mean, you sound like you're just going with the same old "let everyone in, worry about it later..." rhetoric that many on the Left like to spew...
I'm saying that the real immigration question is "how much money do you want to lose?"
immigrants are incredibly valuable, long term, to a country. You get someone who - even if they end up earning minimum wage - didn't cost you anything to birth, nurse, and raise, doesnt qualify for benefits but starts paying tax. Even just the savings on the cost of school itself probably makes an immigrant worth it monetarily.
Not only that but the marginal cost it does take, that would eat into those "profits", is then paid for by the fees an immigrant pays to emigrate.
That's why the only check is a fairly low income checkmark, so that the process remains profitable.