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In 2014, the pollster Ipsos MORI published a survey on attitudes to immigration, and it showed that as numbers of immigrants increase, so public concern with
immigration
also increases, although it obviously didn't unpack causality, because this could equally be to do not so much with numbers but the political and media narrative around it.
But the same survey also revealed huge public misinformation and misunderstanding about the nature of
immigration.
For example, in these attitudes in the United Kingdom, the public believed that levels of asylum were a greater proportion of
immigration
than they were, but they also believed the levels of educational migration were far lower as a proportion of overall migration than they actually are.
One of the things that stands out for me very strikingly, looking at
immigration
attitudes in the United Kingdom, is that ironically, the regions of my country that are the most tolerant of immigrants have the highest numbers of immigrants.
It's those areas of the country that have the lowest levels of
immigration
that actually are the most exclusionary and intolerant towards migrants.
But in looking at that, one of the policy prescriptions is that we have to provide disproportionately better education facilities, health facilities, access to social services in those regions of high
immigration
to address the concerns of those local populations.
But Canada's also important because of its triumph over a problem currently tearing many other countries apart:
immigration.
Its per capita
immigration
rate is four times higher than France's, and its percentage of foreign-born residents is double that of Sweden.
Until the mid-1960s, Canada followed an explicitly racist
immigration
policy.
First, Canada threw out its old race-based
immigration
rules, and it replaced them with new color-blind ones that emphasized education, experience and language skills instead.
Neither
immigration
nor Islamic extremism are impossible to deal with.
To appreciate the scale of this accomplishment, try to imagine the US Congress passing
immigration
reform, campaign finance reform and banking reform.
And soon after I had taken that formal step to becoming an American, the attacks of September 11, 2001, changed the
immigration
landscape for decades to come.
Look, it's been a rough election year, a reminder that people with my
immigration
history could be removed at the whim of a leader.
JH: I think the big issue, especially in Europe but also here, is the issue of
immigration.
And I think this is where we have to look very carefully at the social science about diversity and
immigration.
Diversity and
immigration
do a lot of good things.
So an assimilationist approach to
immigration
removes a lot of these problems.
CA: OK, so rising
immigration
and fears about that are one of the causes of the current divide.
Now, it's not nuclear arms, it's not immigration, and it's not malaria.
CA: But immigration, generally, is another example of a problem that's very hard to solve on a nation-by-nation basis.
DB: On the issue of immigration, it's a legitimate point of view that we have too many immigrants in the country, that it's economically costly.
That feels deeply immoral, and maybe people on the left could agree, as you said, that
immigration
may have happened too fast, and there is a limit beyond which human societies struggle, but nonetheless this whole problem becomes de-emphasized if automation is the key issue, and then we try to work together on recognizing that it's real, recognizing that the problem probably wasn't properly addressed or seen or heard, and try to figure out how to rebuild communities using, well, using what?
How can we have public debate about
immigration
if we can't at least agree on how many people are entering and leaving the country?
But I think to the degree that there are people in the room who are arguing in favor of doing something about climate change, or social issues, I've used the meetings I've had thus far to argue in favor of
immigration
and in favor of climate change.
And at the same time,
immigration
is higher than it's ever been before.
But ... things didn't turn out exactly as I had planned; watch: [Donald Trump Press Conference Dubuque, Iowa] (Video) Jorge Ramos: Mr. Trump, I have a question about
immigration.
JR: Your
immigration
plan is full of empty promises.
I was coming through immigration, which is quite a dramatic border at the moment, into the US last year, and, you know, you get off an international flight across the Atlantic, and you're not in the best place; you're not at your most spiritually mature.
So when you get up to
immigration
with your shirt collar out and a day's growth of beard, and you have very little patience, and the
immigration
officer looked at my passport and said, "What do you do, Mr. Whyte?"
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