We Must Control And Limit Immigration

By Matthew Pollard
Executive Director
Migration Watch UK
Politics.co.uk
11 April, 2011

In response to Ian Dunt: Mass immigration is not a solution to the needs of our ageing population.

“Never be ashamed of immigrant Britain”, comments Ian Dunt.  I have no problem with this assertion; it’s what he goes on to say with which I take issue. Immigration, he suggests, is how we will provide for an ageing population. He is not the first to use this specious argument to justify mass immigration and not the first to overlook the simple fact that immigrants grow old too. An obvious observation, I admit. In fact, obvious enough to have been made time and again by the likes of the United Nations, the OECD, the Council of Europe and the British government actuary….

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