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Not too well, it turns out that we're still in some international human rights agreements that seemilgly twart every attempt to control immigration and/or peopl
by Neil44 3y ago
Not too well, it turns out that we're still in some international human rights agreements that seemilgly twart every attempt to control immigration and/or people trafficers. For example people trafficers coaching customers to exploit modern slavery legislation or various other safeguards to avoid deportation on arrival.
Pulling out of these agreements is still policically unthinkable, although the whole of europe is struggling with the same issues at present. Something has to give.
- hd4 3y agoThis is a red herring, they could easily control the economic migration, which has very little to do with intl human rights, they just choose to ignore it because business always pushes the "labour shortages" because they want to lower labour costs as much as possible.
- kypro 3y agoIt amazes me that the "labour shortage" argument is still in play. You'd think after years of importing tens of millions of people someone might have asked, "have we fixed the labour shortage yet?".
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThere will always be a labor shortage as long as labor costs are greater than zero. /s
- voisin 3y agoIt does not have to be zero. It just has to be less than the marginal profitability of a new hire. Those can converge at a number higher than zero.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI was being sarcastic. But yes you're right.
- kawhah 3y agoThe headline says that this year was the largest increase in population since 1962. That increase was 1% or ~600,000 people.
- Neil44 3y agoOut of interest to you have the numbers or a breakdown of the figures? I haven't seen them.
- hd4 3y agoNumber of economic migrants? They're not really recorded that way afaik. But let me know what you're looking for, and I'll see if I can find it somehow.