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Search - The Truth About Immigration : Exposing the Economic and Humanitarian Myths

The Truth About Immigration Exposing the Economic and Humanitarian Myths
Author: Mike Taylor

This book is not about hate, or immigrant-bashing, or racism...It is about too many different kinds of immigrants coming into the country too fast, and the wisdom of leaving the nonstop influx unchecked and unchallenged. It is about the fallacy of Canada the good, ostensibly trying to help the world's less fortunate out of the goodness of its he... more »art, when the real reason is economic self-aggrandizement. It was not due to any sudden moral awakening that North America opened its doors to mass nonwhite immigration. It was no accident that Canada and the U.S., which were blatantly racist about their immigration policies prior to the 1960s, should suddenly turn a new leaf just when the old colonial empires had drawn their last breath and could no longer take trade and investment with the third world for granted. In a post-empire, Cold War climate of obligatory diplomacy, you can't treat people you want to do business with as second class citizens. The economic debate about immigration always boils down to what is good for ordinary working people regardless of race, sex or nationality, and what is good for business and government. Business and government are like two whores sharing the same bedlam. Workers are the tricks, stuck in the middle, getting it from both ends. The rationales for mass immigration in the "information age" are losing weight, no longer as applicable in an age of global competition, free trading blocs (NAFTA, European Union, APEC), technological displacement, mobile capital, cash-strapped governments...Less educated and less skilled people do not integrate as well into a post-industrial, high-tech economy. They pay fewer taxes and cost more in social services. But highly educated and skilled people -- mostly from the privileged middle classes of developing countries -- are less inclined to abandon their homelands and make the wrenching cultural transition. The dilemma for government is that without lowering admission standards, it is not likely to substantially increase its intake of designer immigrants, while lowering standards will not fulfil labour or budget requirements. Caught between a rock and a hard place. The non-believer in multiculturalism and mass third world immigration is the modern day equivalent of the medieval heretic, fallen not from grace but political correctness. It is easier to buy illegal drugs, weapons and pornography than it is to attend a Canadian Free Speech Conference. What is wrong with this picture? The religion of "tolerance" is the epitomy of intolerance when it comes to opposing viewpoints. The only way to eliminate illegal immigration is to alleviate the world poverty that generates it. Right now, western leaders plot enforcement policy as if there was little or no connection between world poverty and illegal immigration. They drag their feet on cancelling insurmountable third world debt while continuing to pump billions into stopgap enforcement measures. They view the problem as a police action and blame the human smugglers, when it is actually a problem they help create with their own elite selection criteria. We are no longer a sanctuary for the world's poor and huddled masses -- we now criminalize them, targeting the best and throwing back the rest. The west has the wealth, technology and resources to drastically reduce world poverty if it wanted. Why doesn't it? Because, bottom line, in doing so it would destroy its competitive advantage in the global economy. If all people had a decent standard of living, how many would come to fill our 'skills shortages' and help sustain our population and labour force levels? How many multinational corporations would be able to exploit cheaper labour and lower taxes in less developed countries? Not many, in either case, because the enabling poverty would no longer exist. But we would still make do. The sky will not fall when the boomers leave the labour force any more than it fell when they entered it -- the market adjusts. Ultimately, the world community must accept that it has a collective responsibility to ensure that all people, in all countries, have a minimum standard of health care, education, employment opportunities and political stability at home, where most people would rather stay. If third world people had these minimum living standards, they would not want to come in large numbers to the west. Until they do, they will not stop coming, whether by rickety boat, shipping container or forged documents. The human smugglers, as service providers, quick to exploit a profitable market, will see to it.

ISBN-13: 9780968395202
ISBN-10: 0968395201
Publication Date: 7/23/1998
Pages: 250
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Karma Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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