This is nonsense. Immigration has been top of the polls about what people are politically concerned about for decades, and it isn't because they want more immigrants.
Mass immigration means social disruption. It means upsetting settled cultural and social frameworks, especially, as the term mass indicates, it is of a volume to make assimilation difficult. We know that New Labour realised this and tried to bring increase immigration to break up traditional social patterns that they felt favoured the Tories. There is nothing wrong with being against mass immigration.
With the immigration issues at the moment we have to differentiate, firstly, because genuine refugees and economic migrants. Contrary to what is often said, far from all the migrants trying to come to Europe and Britain are genuine refugees. There are many economic migrants, especially from Africa. But there are genuine refugees, especially from Syria and Afghanistan. However, the reasons many of these are heading to Western Europe, and are not content to stay closer to their home countries, do include economic issues. There is some argument that Britain and Northern European nations should take some of the burden, but they should do it on their own terms. Finally, refugees are fleeing conflict. They are supposed to go back after the conflict, not settle permanently, as has happened in the reason past (for example with Bosnian refugees).
It must be said, Britain's problems with migration at moment are primarily based in immigration from Eastern Europe, not with refugees, real or fake. That would be helped by leaving the idiocy of the EU.
A sternness to illegal immigrants can actually save lives, by the way. If people are put off from making dangerous journeys, often this will help them. We saw this in Australia when the Rudd government dismantled the previous government's pacific solution, only to see thousands drown at seeing. The new Abbott government has been stronger on sending out the signal that boat people will not be settled in Australia, and deaths at sea in trying to get to Australia have dwindled.
I do remember seeing that immigrant's rights groups were complaining about the fact the Australian government was sending some asylum seekers to live in Cambodia. They were making reference to the relative poverty and lack of infrastructure there. I thought this showed the obvious flaws in their reasoning. The point of being a refugee is to get away from conflict. It is not to live a Western lifestyle.
We have China and Pakistan as our neighbors.
