C'mon people, does it really matter who lives where?

"we dont do duvets"...

As long as the law of the land and an acceptance for the way of life of the country you choose to reside in is followed and respected,i don't have a problem !! :)

god of thunder

doesnt living somewhere illegally make someone a criminal?

ziggurat4u

Of course not...accept that the entire immigration issue stems from the fact that millions of people totally ignore the laws, policies, and rules of our Nation thereby making them CRIMINALS; of course.

cmdrbnd007

Not as long as they are legal, it doesn't but the simple fact is that they are criminals as soon as they come here breaking the law. That is the definition of criminal.

P P

Yes it does matter.

If you don't beleive me, you won't mind going where I tell you to will you?

Go live in Zimbabwe or Iraq.

I bet none of the 'arm chair socialists' here do -- they live in a dream world where everyone is lovely -- while in fact they sleep walk us all into a nasty, evil future that they are too stupid to see, too stupid to understand and too stupid to really care about.

You want to live in a third world melting pot - chose from one that already exists, dont drag the UK down to that level.

ferengifighter

Yes 20 million need to leave

catmaninmo

not as long as the living wherever is done LEGALLY!

resignedtolife

Yes of course it does. We are tribal animals,

joeandhisguitar

Yes it matters.

bruce m

it does if you don't have the infrastructure to accommodate them. or jobs, affordable housing. but hey maybe you can look after them all.

SnoddersB

As I presume that you are referring to England or the UK then it is numbers that matter. At present there is overcrowding in our country and so there should be a limit on the numbers that come here. Maybe the Channel Islands method should be used, this is that the immigrant will be self sufficient and not need to make any use of the NHS, Pensions, will not be allowed to buy low cost housing, in this case we should be able to welcome all the rest.

michael2k_18

Yes it does, when our forefathers have spent many years (and in some cases their lives) building up this country to make it worth living in, for us just to get flooded with people from outside, taking homes and jobs and opportunities away those of us who are already here, and forcing us out of our own country! How would you feel if that was YOUR country it was happening to?

My forefathers fought and died for this country. Did yours?!

DAR

Since it costs $10,000 per year per child to educate a child in grades K-12, not counting the cost of all of the other services used by poor people and subsidized by others who need those services themselves, yes, it absolutely matters.

Their better life is at our expense and is ruining education and future opportunities for our own children.

LadyMoonlight!!

Yes it does. We and our forefathers worked hard to make the UK a fairly good place to live in. Why should the then EU force us to provide jobs and homes for people whose own countries seem incapable of doing so, at the expense of those who were born here?

As a previous poster says, why not just allow loads of homeless people into your house so they can have a "better life"? Let hungry people eat all your food so they can have a "better life"? Give your job to a migrant and squeeze 1,000 more children who don't speak English into your kids' school so they can have a "better life". Guess what happens then? No-one gets a "better life", we all end up living in Sh!t Street. Which is what the EU is trying to drive the UK into.

normanbormann

It always amazes me that the open-borders crowd ask questions like these without any concern for the consequences.

My question to you is: Do you have locks on your doors and windows? If so, why?

There are thousands of homeless people in your own country. Why not unlock the doors and invite them in? You probably have far more room than you need for simple shelter.

I'll bet your pantry is full of more food than you can eat in a day. Why not let hungry people come in and help themselves?

Does it really matter who pays the mortgage or buys the groceries? C'mon, practice what you preach.

Your kids probably go to a pretty nice school as well. Why not pull out the desks and then you could squeeze twice as many children in. Oh, and if none of the new kids speak English just think of it as "diversity" or "multiculturalism". Don't be a "hater" your whole life.

It won't hurt your children's future because they can't compete with "cheap foreign labor" anyhow. Who needs a degree to flip burgers or wrap fish and chips?

When you pull the locks off your doors and open them wide to anyone who wants to come in and settle down, then you can talk about "sanctuary cities" and open borders.

Otherwise, you're just another bleeding heart liberal who wants to bring Uncle Sanjay and his ten kids over at someone/anyone/everyone else's expense.

caciansb

Yes it does matter when we have to support them when we got people right here in America that need out help first.

Basher

Could a Brit just up and move to a middle east country without getting their noggin cut off? You are very lucky the west is so tolerant. Look what happened to France when outsiders came, they wanted special treatment, and it did not matter to them if they burned, or murdered for it.

My Grain

Yes it does,there needs to be some control. The British have no chance getting government housing.The private sector has got too expensive aswell due to the Eastern Europeans etc. cramming as many people into one house to save money which means there is less housing and the prices have shot up.People like me who cannot afford an education are doing manual labour and because they're under cutting us with the pay our hours are getting longer and longer.Not only that we get a lot of discrimination with work etc for the pure fact we are British.I'm prepared to pick vegetables like the Eastern Europeans and work hard on farms but agencies turn me down telling me they only hire Eastern Europeans. I resent being discriminated against in my own country for being British.I really struggle here.When other nationalities get priority with jobs,housing and the likes over the natives-YES IT DOES MATTER!

Micky

Yes it does.

Rommel

yea!! speak to the underground bomb victims.

Lori K

Why don't you go ask that of the Palestinians?

pugs5678

who cares where you or they live just don't come here and rob steal and make our state worse

MiZz RuBy

no! its all about what you are like as a person not where u live!!

Mac K

of course it does...we have to live in here as well !!!

suet moon

not at all. if you want to move here to the decent side of the pennines then youre welcome lol

momoffour

Yes, it does. There are laws in our country about almost everything. And if you want to live here, you have a responsibility to follow our laws. The main law being that you have to be in this country legally before you can do anything else here. If you are not here legally, then you are a criminal.

Rada S

If your talking about illegal immigrants then all of the ones who want citizenship and have a job and are not a "criminal" should be granted citizenship...I agree!

cdall1977

as long as they come into out country legally they are welcome. and once here they need to pay taxes and keep a job. in other words, "illegals are not wanted nor are they welcome"! And learn the English language and use it in public!!! If English isn't good enough for them or if they like their flag better than they should stay in their home land. Embrace America whole hearted or get the hell out.

Tim

that's a bit random
no not really except for your friends etc

It has an economic impact, of course, when immigrants fill jobs that used to be the exclusive domain of citizens. The blue collar class in America feels peculiarly threatened by the presence of illegal immigrants particularly since corporate America has largely stunted the growth and power of labor unions since Ronald Reagan's presidency from 1980-1988. Moreover, Americans generally seem ill at ease or contemptuous of those immigrants who cannot speak or read English.

The United States needs to be formulate a better immigration policy than the one we have now, which is a disaster. Ironically, the cause of secure borders and much tighter enforcement of immigration laws has become a Republican cause celebre without any acknowledgment that illegal immigration was given the wink and a nod treatment by three successive Republican administrations under Reagan and Bush the first. Clinton's administrations put no greater emphasis on stemming illegal immigration and Bush the second followed suit.

You would think with the outcry and uproar that illegal immigration has caused that these people would at least get the facts straight and acknowledge that Republican indifference to illegal immigration, because it undercuts un-organized poorer white and black laborers who are typically Democrats, if they vote at all, and favors employers by providing them with a huge pool of cheap laborers who have virtually no legal rights, and who typically vote Republican, should disqualify them from leadership on this issue.

It's really no different from the guy who sets fire to a building and then after the alarm is rung rushes in to save one or more of the building's occupants. Is he really a hero? Or is he a criminal? Do we really want politics to reward intellectually dishonest politicians just because they spout platitudes that appeal to us at the moment when they have failed to lead on an issue for years because it wasn't politically convenient to do so?

Apparently, Republican voters have no such concerns, which is why we get such incompetent and hypocritical monstrosities as George W. Bush for 8 years!

Angel

Are you only talking about England?

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