Points, Crimes and Absurdity in Immigrant cities
Like Canada and Australia, Britain has sought the adoption of an immigration points system in order to limit the number of unskilled workers entering the UK and promote highly skilled workers coming in to support the British Economy. While this idea is a logical one, it often leads to dozens of smaller issues which while limits the number of low-income immigrants, also makes life fairly intolerable in the process.
While not on a points system, the City of New York has set out to conquer an issue which is also prominent in cities like Toronto, Canada. New York has always had an issue with illegal immigrants being victims of unreported crimes because upon contacting legal officials, often the immigrant would be simultaneously placed into the removal process since they did not reside legally in New York and the US. In Toronto, while three years ago and prior to that police did not have powers to enforce immigration orders, since then they can now check someone’s legal status in Canada and detain them when responding to criminal investigations. The problem in immigrant cities like Toronto, is that due to the points system, people who used to come in as middle income workers often now come as illegal migrants. In Toronto as well as New York, immigrants not able to be personally secure because it will surely result in the end of their lives in their resident country.
Growing in great numbers due to its booming economy, the city of Calgary in Canada shows an example of how the lack of law enforcement for many illegals can lead to some undesirable situations. In the North-East part of the city, dozens of illegal Asian migrants were found working in an illegal brothel which takes advantage of many people in similar situations entering Canada without a proper legal status. Many similar organizations exist across the country, and due to the new police powers to enforce immigration rules, many more underground operations have the roots to keep them beyond the law.
The UK is likely to have many of these issues plaque their cities in the near future. While trying to crack down on immigration, there is a real threat that society as a whole will lose in the long run.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
The current immigration policies in most advanced countries are wide open and the terrorists are entering. It’s only a matter of time before the next attack. Start closing all the borders and stop making it so easy for them to get in. The current soft policies are only a recipe for disaster.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I think eliminating immigration because of a lack of effective security because someone inside or outside your country might have an issue with it isnt an efficient way to deal with the problem. By that logic no one should be able to enter any country because they might be a terrorist as well. So to protect yourself you must build a complete wall against any foreign citizen entering you country ever.
Immigration is in alot of places and economic and moral necessity, and has always been the case especially in Canada. The concentration should be on letting proper people in, not sequestering someone’s foreign grandmother because there might be an attack…there will always be conflict in the world..and terrorism did not being with immigrants, and will not end with them either.