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by eropple 810 days ago
"Immigration policies" are a major contributor to both economic productivity and cost-of-living stabilization within most industrialized countries in the West. They're not lax, good lord are they not, anywhere you'd want to live, and They Terk Er Jobs/Benefits is broadly untrue.

You can believe anything you'd like, you're entitled, but that doesn't mean it's real.

EDIT: And while I am generally loathe to address green-text posts, especially when rightly autokilled, this topic tends to make people think "the truth is being hidden" or whatever, no matter how obviously frothing the post is. So to the claim "four million immigrants in the last 15 years" - total migration into the Netherlands over the last twenty years is 400,000 and net is 220,000. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/dossier/asylum-migration-and-integr...