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The Case for Immigration
Immigration is a very controversial topic these days, thanks to the refugee situation all over the world and over here in Australia. We have always been pro-immigration but there are clearly many people who think that immigration is a bad thing and should be curbed as much as possible. To these people immigration is stupid and dangerous; to them it is like inviting someone else to live in your house off of your money. We do not feel the same way and thought it was time we explained why we like immigration so much.
It leads to more skilled people joining us
Do you know why so many people are willing to move to Australia from their home countries? It is because they do not like the living standards in their own country. They know that Australia will be able to offer them much more than they could ever get in their own country. We aren’t talking only about money; we are also talking about security and the various other benefits we all love in Australia.
This is good for us because it allows us to pick the best people from all the applicants. Basically, our country has the choice to add highly productive people to its assets. We call them assets and not a liability because the people who are granted immigration are the people who have proven that they will be able to add to the local economy.
We get trained and skilled people without having to train them
People simply do not realise the resources that go into a single person to make them a productive and healthy part of society. We have to spend money on education, healthcare, welfare, and hundreds of other things on every citizen who grows up in the country. People who immigrate here, on the other hand, are already well trained and skilled based on their experiences in their own country. Australia gets people who are great engineers and businessmen from all over the world without having to spend a single dollar on their education and welfare.
We empathise with what they want
This is the most contentious part of the issue but we aren’t going to back away from it. We are greatly privileged to live in a country as great as Australia. Australia has one of the best education, healthcare, and welfare systems in the entire world. Things might seem bad sometimes but when you compare us to hundreds of other countries you will realise how better off we are than them.
The people who immigrate here are those who want their family to have a better standard of life. They are fathers and mothers who want better lives for their children, and sons and daughters who want better lives for their parents. These aren’t people who come here with bad intentions; these are people who came here because they realise that our country is superior. We always empathise with hardworking people who want to make things better for themselves.
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The case is not immigration vs no immigration as this article suggests in a deliberate and cynical attempt to mislead. It is whether we increase yet again our already staggering levels of immigration over emigration. We do not need more people in Australia - we are overpopulated now. In fact, it's only been with a slow down in immigration that unemployment has started to ease here. We need to return to 0 net immigration (ie immigration ~50-70 thousand) as was done under Whitlam - note, when Whitlam did this, unemployment dropped to under 5% - it's never been below 5% since.
"It leads to more skilled people joining us"
Would that be the truck-drivers getting stuck in tunnels? The unskilled people on 457 visas in the post office? The medical staff that can't speak or understand English? Sorry, but this claim is not substantiated by just saying it. We do not have the opportunities for our own let alone 100s of thousands of migrants a year. And despite the claims that this creates more jobs, the evidence is entirely to the contrary.
"We get trained and skilled people without having to train them" yes, but we have to fund the infrastructure deficit that is immediately created and the additional taxes that they pay are clearly not keeping up with the infrastructural needs. This also depletes skills from countries that can't afford to lose them as well as disincentivising training for our young here who might also like an opportunity. It also over-supplies labour markets and provides more competition for entry-level positions that our young need to get a foothold in industry.
In other words, you are just deliberately shooting your country in the proverbial foot.
Stupid is as stupid does.