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Of course, I think we all* understand these points. I was just trying to convey the usual reasons/excuses people use.
I personally think the entire concept of immigration is absolutely ridiculous. People should be free to move around wherever they please. Borders are imaginary. How you can tell some people no you can't come and be on this bit of land, we have decided that this is ours, not yours... well it beats me.
*LFGSS being a massive echo chamber and all
PhilDAS-
Yup, rebutting the populist negative stigma of immigrants in this Brexit age.
Worse still, those of BAME ancestry now calling for immigration to be stopped.
I've encountered quite a few BAME friends who have married a 'local' or who are naturalized citizens who now consider themselves 'local' and spew the same anti immigrants narrative! The mind boggles...
coventry_eagle
Even the notion of stopping immigration is wrong on so many levels.
Jobs - If you're qualified or hardworking, why should one's origin matter?
Wages - In this day and age, everyone wants cheap and convenience, of which one way is suppressing wages. Prime example which is McDonald's, one of the main culprit of zero hour contract. Still in business though, so the consumer is to be blame for wages suppression as their demand sustain such employers.
NHS - Most NHS staffers are not local. I've met many and they are propping up the system not feeding off it. Blame the Tories not immigrants.
Benefits - Long list as to who and when they're allowed to claim here: https://fullfact.org/immigration/migration-and-welfare-benefits/
Which brings into the question of entitlement, does being 'local' qualify one being 'better' than immigrants?
Oh yeah, British expatriates and everyone else are immigrants eh?
What's and who local when most family can trace their origin back to someone who was a immigrant? At what point is someone not an immigrant?
Also this meme.