The truth about immigration is that there’s no truth out there.
The lies and manipulated statistics about immigration, used by whoever wants to spin it whichever way they want to spin it, has been built up in so many layers that it will take a lifetime to peel those layers back.
The stories prey on our basic fear of anything different to us.
If you ask Donald Trump about illegal migration into the USA, he will tell you it’s largely via the southern border – this means Hispanic folk coming in droves from Mexico and the human caravan from Central & South America. Yet, when he issued a contrasting picture of the American dream he says he’s bringing back versus Kamala Harris’ America, the picture he used was a gathering of black refugees who are definitely not the folk you see at the US southern border. So, why did he pull in that photo, which is more like a pic of the folk crossing the English Channel. Well, he did so, for maximum impact.
The reality is that American Natives could pull a similar picture of America prior to the arrival of immigrants, and put the Mayflower ship in there. So can the natives in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil…. the list is endless. Countries populated via European migration.
Migration works. It is necessary. There’s nothing evil about it: be it legal migration or the illegal migration. In the case of the illegal migration, the way to control it, is to stop wars and displacement of people, crack down on the people-smugglers who are profiting from exploiting those unfortunate people, get cross-regional agreements in place to end the misery and generally help the rest of the world do better so that people can do well wherever they are, without wanting to endanger their lives crossing the channel or trekking through deserts and falling prey to people-smugglers.
There is absolutely no direct link between the current sorry state of our economy in the UK and the recent influx of illegal migrants or the net migration that has shot through the roof. But instead of fixing the economy, to drag Brits out of poverty, some charlatans have decided to use migration as the scapegoat, to whip up populism and manipulate the general British population into believing their woes is a result of migration. These charlatans did this systemically over several years and are still at it.
Even after the horrible riots earlier this month, they continue to peddle their lies and continue to sow those seeds of hatred.
The truth is that the UK can very easily take in migrants, get services in place to integrate them and get them living the British way. But that will not help nor aid populism. It will not deliver easy votes, and it will end the hate that they rely on and wish to explode onto our streets. And it is so easy for them to achieve those aims, because at present, if you take housing as an example, we have a huge backlog, with many Brits waiting on long lists to secure housing. Instead of sorting the economy and creating wealth for those folk, so that they can go and buy their own homes and not have to depend on the government for housing, we just tell them that the refugees coming in are being prioritised and are getting the housing aid quicker from government, while Brits wait in line. Which really is, just an opportunistic lie. But it is one of many available and hugely effective lies that these charlatans use to whip up anger and hatred towards migrants and that has steadily spread to being anger and hatred agains anyone who isn’t white-British, as it is simpler for them to just generalise.
The total number of illegal migrant boating it across the channel, should never ever be anything to cripple the UK. We should pick them up, take good care of them, and sort out their paperwork – deporting those found not to be genuine – and that should be that. There really is, nothing to be hysterical about. Nothing to go rioting and injuring the police for!
Yes, treating migrants well, will encourage more and more. Well, then resource the processing with more people, and move them out quicker. Integrate that who are to stay. And more importantly, explain all this to the British people, eradicate poverty here so that Brits can get off reliance on benefits.
Yes, some of the migrants will be horrible people; a good example is the Romanian man who stabbed a mother & daughter to death in London recently. It was confirmed he is an asylum seeker who cannot presently work in the UK but his wife just had their third child here. Many have jumped on that incident to point out that had he been removed, that murder could have been prevented. Ok, true, if he wasn’t here, that horrific murder could have been averted, but that is only one of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees. There will always be the odd rotten apple. It is the same with the millions of migrants whose descendants now run the USA, Canada, Australia and all those countries. Many of them are now the loudest voices asking that those countries build walls, shut borders, dehumanise migrants etc.
If we can put an end to wars, end mass displacement of people and work together to industrialise third world countries (and stop handing out bank accounts to those embezzling in those countries), majority of human beings prefer their home countries and probably not look to migrate. And for the few (as it is still really just a few) who decide to migrate, they can do it in a safer manner than paying people smugglers and crossing dangerous territories to get here
But the truth is: migration is really not the crisis the charlatans have made it out to be. But Pandora’s box is now open and there’s no easy fix. It is such a straightforward topic to whip up crowds, get emotions running high and manipulate the masses. And the world is not short of charlatans! They will continue to tell you it is about patriotism, saving our culture & values (ironically it’s the same culture that has survived for centuries and evolved countless times and survived without the aid of hatred and intolerance), taking our country back or making it great again etc…
Knowledge can improve the world we live in 