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Re:Swiss reject additional immigration curbs by freshflowers on Sunday November 30, 2014 @12:50PM (#8677437)
As in most Western European countries, there are some very good reasons to limit specific immigration.

Specifically the immigration of people that are hostile to the local culture, and act out that hostility through various forms of aggression.

Citing immigrant population statistics is tried and proven way to cloud the issue. In the Netherlands for instance, the largest groups of immigrants are Germans. You don't really believe the immigration debate is about them, do you?

I'm guessing a fairly large part of the UK immigrant population is Western European. Those, plus migrant workers in science, technology and finance, kind of skew the stats.

Calling everybody who points out that there's also another group of immigrants who's net contribution isn't exactly positive "neo-fascists" is extremely counterproductive.

Re:Swiss reject additional immigration curbs by jarek on Sunday November 30, 2014 @04:23PM (#8678151)
> Citing immigrant population statistics is tried and proven way to cloud the issue. In the Netherlands for instance, the largest groups of immigrants are Germans. You don't really believe the immigration debate is about them, do you?

Amusingly, if the internet is to be believed, immigrant Germans have been somewhat of a cause for debate in Switzerland lately, e.g. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/the-changing-face-of-german-immi...