By Jonathan PowerJuly 12th, 2011 The big immigration debate is often the big obscurantism debate. The wool is pulled over our eyes and even for the best informed obtaining clarity is not so easily done. The vested interests in continued immigration are enormous – first and foremost the migrants themselves who are seeking an escape from poverty and lack of opportunity at home. But they are supported in their quest by governments at home who look at the remittances that bail out their balance of payments problems without looking at the other side of the balance sheet – the effect that emigrants and their money have on raising the desire of their populations for imported goods, the lost of the “bestest and brightest” from their own economies, the often sad and destructive impact on family life and migrants spending when they do come home on a house, consumer items, such...
