In the wake of a tsunami of fake news about asylum seekers, legal and illegal immigration, this helpful set of facts from Martin Housden sets the record straight for people with feeble minds. Sourced from a range of reliable sources listed below.
Immigration facts
Immigration is not the cause of unemployment, even for the unskilled.
Immigration is not the cause of wages declining, even for the poorest paid.
Immigration has not caused the shortage of housing and only exacerbates it because so little is built.
Immigrants have always paid more in taxes than they take in benefits.
Immigrants are much less likely to claim benefits than UK nationals.
Immigrants are more skilled and better educated than the native UK population. The UK benefits from such skills without having had to fund the training.
Without immigration the national debt would be higher.
Without immigration the NHS would collapse.
Without immigration care of the elderly would collapse.
Stopping EU immigration has exacerbated staff shortages in the NHS leading to (more expensive) recruitment from countries that can ill afford to lose health workers.
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Sources
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/northern-ireland-facts-figures-immigration-29726170
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/about-department/fiscal-effects-immigration-uk
http://www.cream-migration.org/files/FiscalEJ.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12181/abstract
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/the-fiscal-impact-of-immigration-in-the-uk/
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6399/economics/impact-of-immigration-on-uk-economy/
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/14727/economics/high-immigration-boosts-real-gdp/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2014/nov/positive-economic-impact-uk-immigration-european-union-new-evidence
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/about-department/fiscal-effects-immigration-uk
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/the-labour-market-effects-of-immigration/