Economic Downturn? Blame the Immigrants!

More than 860 immigrants pour into Britain every day - a figure which does not even include those entering illegally.

Official statistics reveal that the immigrant population has leapt by almost 2.4million since Labour came to power a decade ago.

They were released as the Government faced accusations of "fiddling the figures" after claiming the number of migrants from outside the EU was over half.

The figures show an increase of 316,000 immigrants - or 865 a day - for 2006 alone, the latest period for which figures are available.

At the same time, 715,000 British citizens have packed their bags and left - including 126,000 in 2006.

Daily (hate) Mail

As soon as there is an economic downturn, guess who is going to risk the ire of Mr Joe Public? Yes, of course, it will be the immigrants. As well as stories about suspicious minority groups and Eastern Europeans 'stealing our jobs', as if we owned them in the first place, our Press in Britain are creating the same kind of conditions that existed in Nazi Germany before the Holocaust towards minority groups.

Any forecast is thus contingent on how we answer the following three questions. Will the financial crisis continue in 2008? Will inflation expectations rise further? Last, will there be a disorderly process of global rebalancing? If we answer all three questions with Yes, we should prepare for a global depression. If the answer is No, the world economy will have another good year. There are many intermediate scenarios as well.

I would answer the first question with an unqualified Yes. The financial crisis will probably linger on for most of the year and may get worse before it gets better. This is not really a “subprime” or “credit” crisis, as it is frequently called. This is a banking crisis. Economic history has taught us time and again that banking crises do not simply go away.

Financial Times

If we head into a severe economic meltdown, we may face a type of racism that we have not seen before. Will the Government stand up for the new inhabitants of GB? I fear not. We may get 'rivers of blood' and internment camps instead...

Legal immigrants strengthen a country. They create diversity, not just from an ethnic point of view, but add a different perspective, and bring a different set of skills, in many cases. Controlled legal immigration, I would even say, is vital for the survival of a nation. Otherwise, the nation ends up wallowing in a shallow gene pool. Most countries have requirements( I know the US does, since we adopted several children from South America) that the immigrants (or their sponsoring family) assure the government that they will not be a welfare burden on the country.
On the other hand, illegal immigrants have the opposite effect. First, it is not controlled, and as a result, community infrastructure is quickly overwhelmed. Here in the United States, many communities and even entire states are on the verge of bankruptcy, due to the economic strains placed on police, health and educational institutions, with no concurrent tax support by those immigrants.