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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 82 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Immigration is such a fucked up issue almost everywhere. You've got the right blaming everything on brown people and the left claiming all immigrants are just peace loving pacifists looking for a better life.

As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

You cannot tell me you support equality for all when your religion makes your wife walk 5 steps behind you in a beekeeper suit at 30c weather while you get to strut around in shorts and flip-flops.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

First generation migrants tend to be, in most receiving countries, less likely to commit crime than native-born population.

http://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Bersani_2012.pdf

They found that immigrant men and women were less criminally active than native-born men and women in regard to self-reported crime, being stopped by the police, being charged with a crime, and having contact with a criminal justice agency. This pattern of lower levels of criminal activity among immigrants compared to the native-born held in models controlling for key background characteristics including a variety of educational, employment, and family history measures.

The problem comes with latter generations, if the receiving country isn't doing an adequate job at integrating them. If the parents work really long hours, aren't capable of spending much time with their kids, have trouble to pay kindergarten and have trouble teaching their kids the local language, if the kids are victimized by racist bullying at school, have less means to do well academically and land a good job, and are generally otherized by society, they're at a larger risk getting alienated and engaging in antisocial behavior and even crime.

So, if you don't want migration to be a problem, invest in public schooling (including kindergarten), offer classes teaching the local language to adults, empower unions, protect labor, and fight racism.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

While the study has some value you cannot compare immigration from South America in US to immigration in Europe from North Africa and Middle East. People are people, but values, culture and religions are very different.

[–] 2ncs@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

America is hardly a country of "equality for all" sadly

Edit: This was literally 4 posts down

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This happened in Canada, what does the usa have to do with this? This same thing is playing out over in the EU as well, and everyone here is wondering how the right is gaining political growth...this is why. People inherently do not want groups that come over and violently force their beliefs on the population.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

People inherently do not want groups that come over and violently force their beliefs on the population.

Agreed.

To me, though, there's a bigger problem with people already here who are violently forcing their beliefs o to others.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

US has to do with everything, since facts don't matter, only outrage

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Being far from perfect doesn't mean you have no values.

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

Plenty of born Canadians do not support these principles at all

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I agree, and it goes both ways. I was taking to a Mexican immigrant yesterday who hasn't been home to see his mother in more than 20 years as he doesn't have the ability to cross the border, and she has continuously been denied visas without explanation.

There's a lot of shit the US puts immigrants through as they walk on the edge of being allowed to exist here. My opinion is that we should both open our borders, and document the people who come through.