Is it immoral to object to mass immigration, if so why is it immoral?

trish

No it isn't immoral to object in fact its more immoral not to object. .

Everything we have gained from the blood of our ancestors, our freedoms, our legal system our benefit system, Our traditions, all have fallen victim of mass immigration.

Anyone who doesn't object in my view is either absolutely and completely nuts or one of the incomers.

Terry

There is no 'moral' issue here. As long as the laws are fairly applied to all, then legal limits on immigration are appropriate. A country has the right to determine how many extra people it can absorb.

What is morally wrong is pushing in line in front of those who are waiting for the legal process to emigrate. Illegals do that - they push in front and slow down the line for everyone else.

Mad Max

No I don't think it's immoral but it's not pc correct lol. I think the majority of people object to mass immigration.

ibsmith666

our opinion is ok. In life you chose your own morals. Each case for immigration should be taken on it's own merit. Unfortunatley in Britain it has been the case we end up with a lot of criminals who come here because they can't stay were they are.

Father Jake

No, it is not immoral because it is a political matter and you have the right to question it.

What is immoral is if someone were use immigration as a mechanism to generate hatred towards a specific group of people.

Northern Spriggan

It is immoral for the current political party to destabilise the whole infrastructure of a country by allowing it to occur

Only so much land, only so much s**t can go through the drains, only so much the NHS and the Police can cope with

I am also actively against building new towns on green field sights. Building new towns can go to hell as far as I am concerned. (Not that its happening at the moment anyway with the house price crash, which reinforces my above points)

Additional
The entire PC thing now is dated and irrelevant
Im only interested in practical concerns. I dont waste my time with anything or anyone PC related. They will grow up one day

Joel W

No. And it should be done. One thing the modern world has is.. not much in the way of surpluses. If such are not available, any mass immigration will be very ugly as home boys and bad boys compete for what is available.
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per .... Just a thought - Our founding fathers were all illegal immigrants
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You need a lot of history. There were no immigration laws at that time beyond good health when you hit the docks. The country had a lot of empty room and you merely had to find a niche and earn your keep. Something, I would add, the illegal aliens of today are NOT doing.

Thomasina Paine

Absolutely not!

Shane

Of course not, but PC-loving liberals define anything that they oppose as immoral. Immigration should be used as a tool to make a country stronger, but in the USA, it has been making our country weaker these past 20 or 30 years. Too many immigrants, and too many of them are uneducated, unskilled and can't speak English. We need to cut back on the number of immigrants and improve the quality of them. Say no to Chain Immigration.

You can learn more about sound immigration policies by going to these sites:
NumbersUSA: http://www.numbersusa.com
Federation for American Immigration Reform: http://www.fairus.org
Californians for Population stabilization: http://www.CAPSweb.org

Joe C

No! Every country has the right to close its borders if it wants to.

LPW

No, simply just free Speech.
If I or anyone else cannot express a reasonable opinion on immigration or any other subject come to that matter, them why on earth did we fight the 1st and 2ed world wars to allow and preserve free Speech.

If every time you open your mouth and voice your concerns you are hounded by people, who for what-ever reason have a vested interest in shutting you up, then we have surely lost all that our fore-fathers fought and died for.

Is that the kind of world that we want to live and raise our children in.

Seeker-Of-infomation

No it's not immoral and even if it was I would still object to it, the country has to many immigrants as it is, they should send the lot back, who cares if they face torture, it's not our problem, why don't they go immigrate to poland or something out of our way.

D. J

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/11/17/20081117mysterygirl1115.html

5-year-old girl rescued from drophouse identified
Parents, now in Mexico, say border crossing failed

Nov. 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Mexican consular officials have identified the parents of mystery girl "Darnelia," the 5-year-old who was rescued last month in a Phoenix drophouse.

"Darnelia" is, in fact, Maria Yarely Collado Solorio, known as "Yari," daughter of Gumercindo and Brenda Solorio, from the town of Churumuco in the state of Michoacan, said the Mexican consulate's office in Phoenix. Her parents hope to reunite with the girl this week.

After the Oct. 17 raid on a west Phoenix drophouse, Yari could not tell detectives her surname, where she was from or details of her illegal crossing near Douglas.
She was put in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services as law-enforcement officers combed rosters kept by smugglers to track immigrants and payments.

Those rosters led investigators to a man in California and another in Utah, but both of those leads were blind alleys.

At the same time, Spanish-language media broadcast accounts of Yari's ordeal nationwide and in Latin America.

Meanwhile, Mexican consulate officials were able to locate the parents, although it's not known how. In a telephone interview with The Arizona Republic, the parents related a nightmarish story.

Before April, Gumercindo, 25, and his wife, Brenda, 23, had been living in Nampa, Idaho, just west of Boise, where Gumercindo worked in construction, while their two daughters, ages 5 and 3, remained in Michoacan with their grandparents.

In April, Gumercindo and Brenda rushed back to Michoacan when they learned that their youngest daughter was gravely ill with cancer. She died later the same month.

In October, the couple decided to return to Idaho so that Gumercindo could get back to his construction job.

"There isn't any work for us in Mexico, and what jobs there are pay very badly," he said.

This time they wanted to bring 5-year-old Yari. They thought she would have a better life in the United States.

Brenda was also more than eight months pregnant and they wanted to have the baby in Idaho because they would have access to better health care.

They arrived at the border town of Agua Prieta, across from Douglas, on Oct. 11.

The plan was for Brenda and Yari to cross together in a car through the port of entry using birth certificates that belonged to U.S. citizens.

Gumercindo was going to cross separately on foot through the mountains. But things went wrong.

At the border, their female guide insisted on separating Brenda and Yari. The guide, or coyote, told Brenda they would draw less attention if they crossed in two separate cars.

"She lied to us. She told us they were going to cross together. But at the border, when they were going to cross, she said they would have to cross separate," Gumercindo said.

After Yari crossed, the coyote told Brenda that instead of going through the port in a car, Brenda would have to walk through the gate used by shoppers entering the U.S. from Mexico. But immigration officials at the border realized that Brenda's papers did not belong to her and detained her.

She was fingerprinted, sent back to Agua Prieta and banned from re-entering the U.S. for five years.

Gumercindo, meanwhile, was caught by the Border Patrol and sent back to Mexico in Nogales. He took a bus to Agua Prieta, where Brenda told him she had been separated from Yari and that the girl was at a drophouse in Phoenix.

Gumercindo said that around Oct. 22, the consulate in Douglas contacted Brenda in Agua Prieta and told her Yari had been found in Phoenix. Around that time, Brenda gave birth to a little girl in Agua Pri- eta.

The couple have been undergoing an identification process to have Yari returned to them, which they hope will happen this week.

"This has been a horrible experience," Gumercindo said. "We can't stop worrying about her."

Gumercindo said he now realizes that trying to cross the border illegally with a 5-year-old girl and a pregnant wife was a big mistake.

"We feel really bad, and really sad. . . . It was a bad decision, and we were wrong to try to do it," Gumercindo said. "But everyone told us it would be very easy. That we wouldn't have any problems."

Croxx

no, economics & culture

Jack H

You have the right to your own opinion, if you think its wrong it might not be to someone else and vice versa.

Emily G

It could be a moral issue since capitalism and its big companies are forcing families to move from their lands, use they resources and on top of that employ them with low wages and no benefits. This big companies usually owned by developed countries bring money to their countries of origin and doing basically nothing for local economies but polluting and exploiting. This families then "dare" to look for a better future and emigrate -guess where?- and are treated like criminals, living at at the bottom of the economic pyramid, then deportation comes splitting families, and I say splitting because they know they are better off separated than all broke, malnourished and exploited together back at home. I see many moral dilemmas... after all, immigration is a natural phenomena. Legal or illegal, there has been so many people against it. First english and german didn't like irish, then italians, puerto ricans, Chinese, mexican, middle eastern. You can't blame people for looking for a better life.

C.S.

I'm not sure its a moral or immoral act because morality often is defined as your personal interactions with others.

However, often times anti-immigrant sentiment does seem to have ethically problematic conjunctions: namely with racist, nativist, xenophobic stances. It would be unethical to promote a public policy that has its basis in racism, nativism, or xenophobia.

girl afraid

It could be viewed as immoral to object to the immigration of asylum seekers who are victims of violence and torture in their home countries, but I'm sure that's not most people's reasoning behind objecting to mass immigration.

I don't believe it's immoral, just misguided fear.

joe g

Just a thought - Our founding fathers were all illegal immigrants

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