As things stand, migrating to the UK will probably become more difficult still.
Yeah. It's sad. I do very much agree that we need to control immigration. We have a serious housing crisis here already, and the last thing we need is more people. However, it isn't near as simple as most people seem to think, and toufher immigration policies tend to make it tough for the wrong people eg a friend of mine who fell in love with an American lady, but didn't have sufficient means to import her , nor to relocate to America himself.
People tend to imagine that tougher immigration policies will somehow curb the influx of Muslims and/or Eurpopean migrant workers. Leaving aside the "undesirable" slurs against these groups, they really do have had an obvious , and ever-growing presence in our cities. It's therefore quite realistic to think that ithese groups are significantly adding to the population pressure. There's zero reason to think that Americans or anybody else are adding to the population pressure. I mean, American immigrants are a tiny minority, always have been a tiny minority. It's altogether likely that more of us move to America than vice versa. So, no actual problem there.
Oh!And then we also have god-knows -how-many illegal immifgrants, getting by through working in sweatshops, using fraudulent ID, thieving or whatever. Tougher immigration poliicies won't stop that either. It's getting easier and easier for people to slip under the radar, what with so many homeless, and so many people not even bothering with Welfare (because they made it far too tough to claim) They reckon that something like a million British citizens have effectively vanished from official records, having absolutely no identifiable source of income It wouldn't be too hard to blend in with that lot, would it?
Obviously, negotiatons with the EU , in the light of Brexit, will be of interest as regards the issue with EU migrants. And (like I said above) the Muslim comnmunities have their ways of getting round the legislation. No matter how hard you make it for individuals to immigrate , that's not gonna make much of a a dent on the concerted efforts of entire communities, especially not communities where arranged marriage is the norm.
Obviously, it's impossible to discuss the
real issues without looking like a racist, so Brits generally don't discuss the real issues, at least not in the media. We're effectively gagged by political correctness. We badly need to curb population growth, especially here in England ( nobody actually want s to move Scotland , not even the Syrians; the climate is too inhospitable and they have even worse unemployment problems. That's why the Scots don't quite get it, I suppose. Dire though things might be in Scotland, they've no reason to think that "immigration" is a factor in making things that dire for them )
Point is: effective immigration policies (that is policies that would actually stem the overall poulation growth) would need to address the loopholes; but we can't even talk about those freaking loopholes , normally
