| It's actually the opposite of the "bus nonsense" and actually the concerns are valid. In SV, poor(er) people complain about too many rich(er) people coming in. When it comes to immigration, rich(er) people are afraid of too many poor(er) people coming in. Also they are not removing freedom of movement, they put a limit on rate. Which is something U.S. has been doing for decades and nothing bad really happened because of that. In addition, the math for Switzerland is much different. It's hard to change demographics of 300 million country by letting in a few hundred thousand immigrants. According to the article, already 25% of 8 million Swiss are foreigners. That would be a pretty alarming number if you were native Swiss. If the current trend continues (80 thousand immigrants per year), that would be 50% in ~25 years. Let's also not ignore the real danger of ethnic-based or religious-based conflict, like Bosnian War. |