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Comment by rohansood15

17 hours ago

So ask for it. Seems like your issue isn't immigration, it is abuse. The recent changes don't do much to fix that, imo.

>So ask for it.

Nobody in government wants to listen. They're too afraid of being called "far right" if they give airtime to people wanting less migration so what happens is that that only breeds resentment and a rise of the actual far right, leading to a self fulfilling prophecy that could be avoided if they just enable discourse to things they don't like to hear but are pressing issues of large voter base.

>Seems like your issue isn't immigration, it is abuse.

Because governments don't make the distinction between the two, you give them an inch, they take a mile. If you let them enable any migration over time they will abuse it to flood the market with cheap labor as their corporate lobbyists push them to, like they did with H1B since 1990, which was initially a a scheme to import top soviet scientist after the USSR collapsed(kind of like operation paperclip) and is now used for US companies to import "Microsoft Certified Specialists" from India.

If you want to stop the abuse you have to stop migration completely and then start political negotiations from that point of leverage, on a controlled points based migration system that accounts for actual shortages and domestic public resources.