Aside from racism. I mean economically/socially, what issues does too much immigration cause?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    Aside from racism, it is usually the belief that the new immigrants will either be economic competition for those with jobs or a drain on welfare.

    • kent_eh
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      3 months ago

      That combined with a lack of available housing are the answers I see most often.

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        3 months ago

        Gee, if only we could find the labor to build some extra housing. Must be that the immigrants taking our jobs just don’t want to work these days.

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          3 months ago

          You also need money, materials, and space to build housing though and I doubt all immigrants are carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and all the other professionals needed to build homes.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      in my country that’s exactly what is happening, they are taking the simpler jobs for much cheaper, and lot of our “native” people has/had jobs like this.

      ironically, this country is among the loudest in anti-immigration in the EU, all the while they are immigrating people from neighboring countries exactly for cheap labor.