It’s ironic that the rigid employment environment which should protect the native born population from competition with immigrants also serves to generate negative sentiment about immigrants.
I feel like a conservative would argue that the US having a less generous welfare state plays a big part here.
The types of immigrants you attract when you can simply live on the dole in your new country is likely a very different population than those who know they’ll have to be self-reliant to survive.
“Come here and work hard and maybe you’ll strike it rich” is a very American sensibility. “Come here but it’s unlawful to work but also we’ll give you free welfare and healthcare” sounds cartoonishly European.
Which goes along with the US asylum loophole as being a more European way of ending up in the country, unable to work and getting supported by the state. Greg Abbott sends his regards, NYC.
I was reading along about immigration, nodding my head, and then I hit the word "asylum" for the first time. Then the word asylum popped up again. It's used I think nine times through the article, almost interchangeably with "immigration".
A lot of the "immigration" problems described seem like asylum problems. European countries ban those claiming asylum from working, not "immigrants". Asylum is based on the needs of the applicants, not the desires of the receiving country. I mean, not completely, there's discussion of how Germany's guest workers and their descendants have educational gaps... but still, they were brought in as guest *workers* to do jobs that Germany needed done.
If there were no right to asylum, would there even be any serious problems with European immigration?
It’s ironic that the rigid employment environment which should protect the native born population from competition with immigrants also serves to generate negative sentiment about immigrants.
I feel like a conservative would argue that the US having a less generous welfare state plays a big part here.
The types of immigrants you attract when you can simply live on the dole in your new country is likely a very different population than those who know they’ll have to be self-reliant to survive.
“Come here and work hard and maybe you’ll strike it rich” is a very American sensibility. “Come here but it’s unlawful to work but also we’ll give you free welfare and healthcare” sounds cartoonishly European.
Which goes along with the US asylum loophole as being a more European way of ending up in the country, unable to work and getting supported by the state. Greg Abbott sends his regards, NYC.
I was reading along about immigration, nodding my head, and then I hit the word "asylum" for the first time. Then the word asylum popped up again. It's used I think nine times through the article, almost interchangeably with "immigration".
A lot of the "immigration" problems described seem like asylum problems. European countries ban those claiming asylum from working, not "immigrants". Asylum is based on the needs of the applicants, not the desires of the receiving country. I mean, not completely, there's discussion of how Germany's guest workers and their descendants have educational gaps... but still, they were brought in as guest *workers* to do jobs that Germany needed done.
If there were no right to asylum, would there even be any serious problems with European immigration?