Migration and Human Rights (12): Public Opposition to Immigration

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Just a short follow-up on my previous post on the subject. For those anxious about immigration and about the burdens it places on the host-economy and on the welfare state (“importing poverty“), here’s a graph comparing immigration and unemployment numbers in Spain:

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This shows that high levels of immigration do not necessarily lead to economic ruin. Granted, some of the immigrants in Spain are wealthy pensioners from colder regions of Europe, but they are only a small fraction of the total.