Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
Ok. Let's go with the first one.

- Europe has an aging, dwindling population. If it weren't for immigration, that would've been a very, very serious problem by now.

Wrong twice.

1) It is needed to stop population from dwindling, not increase it
2) The age issue (number of old vs number of young) remains

Wrong again. They're moving because there isn't enough resources.

All European countries suffer from that problem. Migrations within Europe won't change that.

Refugees from war zone should have precedence over economic migrants who can be put on hold for a few years.

It's short term vs. long term security.
I'd rather have eastern Europeans than middle easterners, if there is a need for net migration. We share more common values, and none of them have called on Britain to implement post-Yugoslav, Romanian, Polish, etc. laws to suit their sensibilities. They assume that the onus is on them to adapt to the host society, not the other way round. And we don't have an endemic problem with eastern European terrorism.