Beware of incoming Solutions

I like back of the envelope math.  Clients call me with problems.  Sometimes these problems require detailed analysis.  Most of the time, however, the problem is solved with back of the envelope math and common sense.  I was reminded by this yesterday when I found a blogger doing some very effective back of the envelope math on illegal migration.  He found that expelling millions of illegal migrants does not significantly change total employment.

In other words of the 2 million illegal immigrants that have been expelled by one means or another it is a reasonable argument that a mere 14.5% of them, or about one in seven, were working in a form and fashion that was recorded in the household survey,

These numbers are from the United States, but this problem is not unique to the US.  Illegal migrants don’t work in Europe either.

More than seven million migrants remain outside the European Union’s labour market, despite the liberal political class’ insistence that the millions of migrant arrivals in recent decades would benefit Europe.

Politicians tell us that immigration is necessary because we don’t have enough people to fill jobs and pay taxes.  How does that work when the people who arrive don’t work or pay taxes?  Immigration proponents love to point out that countries like Canada and the US were built by immigrants.  That is true but when those immigrants came, they were promised nothing but an opportunity to succeed.  Now people who show up illegally are promised hotel rooms.

Liberals believe that all immigration is beneficial.  There is absolutely no data to support that childish notion.  How is it beneficial to bring in people who still execute witches.

Spanish police have arrested 19 people accused of killing and torturing up to 50 fellow passengers aboard a migrant vessel, allegedly throwing overboard victims accused of witchcraft.

Or people who openly lied to you about their circumstances.

Afghans who have been relocated to Britain to protect them from the Taliban have returned to their home country on holiday,

Do you really think violent people and liars will be productive tax paying member of society?  Of course not.  Countries are not charities.  We have no obligation to let anyone in. The right thing to do is to never let these people into your country in the first place.  The problem for ordinary peaceful tax paying citizens is that our governments never choose to do the right thing.

Formerly dominant majorities in these countries believe that they are governed by people who are actively opposed to their national and personal interests and who have effectively closed all avenues of peaceful political amelioration.

It’s hard to deny that the elites seem to have little interest in promoting the welfare of individual nations.

The people in government see the statistics.  They know that illegal migrants largely don’t work and do not benefit the country.  Illegal migration is the easiest problem in the world to solve yet they do nothing.  This has gone on too long for it just to be ordinary government incompetence.  At this point we should admit that allowing illegal migration is part of the plan.  The destruction is intentional.  Government is not your friend, but you must go back to medieval times to find governments this openly hostile to their citizens.