Posted on 02/04/2016 10:10:57 AM PST by Theoria
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron promised back in 2010 to bring net migration down to 100,000 people a year. Six years later, it's more than three times that number.
That's one reason the government's Home Office decided that non-Europeans on skilled worker visas -- known as Tier 2 visas -- are not welcome to stay unless they are making at least 35,000 British pounds (about $50,000 a year).
The message is aimed at slashing migration to Britain and goes into effect in April. But critics call the new rule discriminatory and say it will strip Britain of lower-paid artists, health care workers and tradespeople.
"The estimates put the GDP loss at 181 million [pounds, equivalent to $264 million] to 761 million [pounds, equivalent to $1.1 billion], so that's a massive blow in the first year alone, for starters," Joshua Harbord says.
Harbord, who rattles off facts and figures about why he thinks this move will hurt Britain, might sound like an expert on immigration. But he's not. Harbord performs at kids' birthday parties as a pirate. And when he heard his friend Shannon Harmon might be forced to leave, he got angry.
"It was scaring Shannon and everybody it was affecting, and it felt like a massively mean policy that was apparently convincing my friends that they were worthless and unwanted," Harbord says.
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Japan took in THREE Syrians.
Well done!
Look at all the work and worry they avoided.
You know what tolerance REALLY is?
INtolerance of one’s own lineage.
This will probably get rid of a lot more Poles, than Muslims.
Please?
Clearly if the workers aren’t making 50K, the government should step in and make up the difference out of increased taxes. Not to do so would be racist.
worthless and unwanted a lot of that going around and about time no job no enter.
Japan realizes they have a distinct and different culture (sometimes in history zealously so) and they understand that importing any Muslim foreigners will cause immediate problems for everyone and cause great friction in their society.
Its why Japan as a nation will still be around many years after the USA’s experiment in debt-financed multi-culti leftist ideology has crashed and destroyed the country.
"Home Office decided that non-Europeans on skilled worker visas" -- doesn't apply to Europeans, like Poles.
Missed that, thanks.
Simple liberal solution — Make the minimum wage $50,000 a year !! Problem solved.
...BUT if you’re a jihadi from a third world cess pool we’ll GIVE you $50,000 a year.
“Harmon, who is from Chicago, has a work visa and has been in the U.K. more than seven years. But she makes less than the amount needed to stay under the new rules.”
Well the DEMOCRAT answer to that would be to simply charge more...enough to make the required $50k.
Harbord, who rattles off facts and figures about why he thinks this move will hurt Britain, might sound like an expert on immigration. But he’s not. Harbord performs at kids’ birthday parties as a pirate.
ha
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