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The only way forward is to leave out the countries that are most averse to accepting immigrants, at least temporarily, and create a solution involving just those that are willing to share the burden.
The large existing community of former immigrants could be helpful in articulating and implementing that delicate balance, imperfect as it may have been at times.
The composition of immigrants, together with their likely final destination, also matters.
M5S goes out of its way to insult and threaten critical journalists, and the League disparages immigrants and badgers local governments that show hospitality toward asylum seekers who have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
The catalyst of Golden Dawn’s sudden rise is not Greece’s large population of illegal immigrants – their presence predates the rightward shift by many years – but rather the massive rise in poverty and unemployment over the last three years and, above all, growing popular anger with the political class as a whole.
A growing economy would make it much easier to absorb immigrants, whether refugees or economic migrants.
This attests to Western powers’ fundamental interest in a stable Turkey, which the EU needs in order to stop further waves of immigrants, mainly from Syria, and which the US needs for its war, limited as it is, against the Islamic State.
People hardly need additional data to recognize, say, a rise in inequality or mistreatment of immigrants.
The inconsistency is rooted in the girls’ circumstances: the schoolgirls are innocent victims crying out for protection, while the child sex workers are illegal immigrants, slated for deportation as soon as they are caught.
Given Europe’s aging population, the benefits migration brings far outweigh the costs of integrating immigrants.
But his main competitor, center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte, adopted Wilders-like rhetoric – telling immigrants that they should leave the country if they do not want to behave “normally.”
Financial capital and direct investment will flow from West to East, the Western economies will be forced to specialize in highly skilled, capital-intensive production that creates fewer jobs, and unskilled immigrants will move to the West.
The law’s vague wording means that the government could, in theory, arrest anyone who provides any kind of assistance to undocumented immigrants.
In the UK, the Brexit vote was heavily influenced by fear that immigrants from low-wage EU countries (the proverbial “Polish plumber”) were taking citizens’ jobs and public services.
Wilders finished a distant second in the Dutch election, but he nonetheless managed to push the winner, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, to adopt a more intolerant stance toward immigrants.
But many others have embraced far-right populists, who pledge to fight for “the people” (their supporters) against the “liberal establishment” (their opponents), whom they accuse of selling out the national interest to the EU, immigrants, and foreigners in general.
The two sides could also cooperate to repatriate illegal immigrants, an issue that has taken on greater urgency as Turkey has become a growing transit route for illegal immigrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East.
He visited Mexico before any other country, renewed Temporary Protection Status for Central American immigrants, maintained President Bill Clinton's waiver of certain trade restrictions on countries and companies doing business with Cuba, and gave new impetus to the negotiations to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas.
And Trump, an ignorant narcissist with no political experience, managed to become President of the US by whipping up popular resentment against educated elites, bankers, foreigners, immigrants, and international institutions.
Can the growing gap between rich and poor bring at least some of the white working class back into the same tent as immigrants and other minorities?
According to the City Department of Planning’s most recent estimates (from June 2009), the city attracted 647,000 immigrants over the last decade, mainly from Latin America and Asia.
Most of the victims were German immigrants, mainly women and children, on their way to a picnic.
As of 2011, an estimated 5.7 million residents (12% of the population) were immigrants – over a million more than in the significantly larger United Kingdom (with a population of 62 million).
But opposition to the EU was compounded by more fundamental issues of nationalism and identity, including citizens’ distaste for the large numbers of non-English-speaking immigrants from other member countries.
In short, this is a crisis not of immigrants, but of refugees – and it is showing no sign of slowing.
The immigration problem goes back some seven decades, to the arrival of the first waves of Caribbean immigrants in the UK.
Named “the Windrush generation,” after the first ship that brought them, these immigrants entered the UK on their original passports.
In 2013, when she was Home Secretary, she advocated creating a “hostile environment” for illegal immigrants – a policy that many argued poisoned the atmosphere for anyone with darker skin.
Once implemented, the labor pact would help to change attitudes towards Arab immigrants in Europe – and Europe’s image in the Southern Mediterranean.
So does this move, taken with similar actions in France, bespeak a new European attitude towards immigrants?
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