2.8 Mass Immigration is Unpopular

2.8 Mass Immigration is Unpopular in the West

Large-scale immigration alienates the majority of the population.

The new, identitarian Left is seriously at odds with working class views on such social problems arising from mass immigration:

• • A survey of EU citizens in 2017 found that the majority of the population in every EU country sees an upsurge in immigration as leading to more terrorism and crime.

  • A 2017 survey by the London School of Economics and Oxford University found that the key issue motivating the successful referendum vote for leaving the EU (Brexit) in 2016 was ‘taking back control’ of borders to reduce immigration. Even amongst ‘Remain’ voters, support for “little to no EU immigration” was 47%.

  • A survey of white working-class voters in the US in 2016 found that it was anxiety about immigration-driven culture change (plus support for deporting ‘undocumented’ immigrants) that correlated most strongly with voting for Trump.

  • In 2017, Trump’s ‘Muslim travel ban’ was supported by 60% of Americans (including 41% of Democrat voters) compared to only 28% who were opposed.

  • In 2017, a majority (55%) of Europeans wanted to see an end to all Muslim immigration (Chatham House).

A 2018 Pew Research Center survey of 27 nations found that there was no recipient country where a majority of the population supported increased immigration – overall, 45% of the developed world’s populations wanted fewer or no immigrants, 36% wanted it to stay at the same level and just 14% wanted more immigrants.

A 2017 survey of 25 countries by IPSOS (18,000 adults in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Japan and Russia) found that nearly half the population agree that there are too many immigrants in their country; 44% agree that ‘immigration is causing my country to change in ways I don’t like’, 49% agreed immigration placed ‘too much pressure on public services’ (versus only 19% who disagreed); 41% say that migrants take away jobs (versus 27% who think they don’t).

Western governments, however, have immigration policies inversely proportional to popular views. This is partly because these are capitalist governments (less so the Italian governmentwhich is a Left-Right populist coalition) and are therefore in the game of enabling their capitalist class to benefit through cheap immigrant labour.

Another factor for Western government’s immigration-friendliness is that mass immigration creates a large electoral bloc of immigrants, and their ethnic-identifying descendants, which sensitises electorally-mainstream political parties to higher levels of multicultural observance. They are joined in this endeavour by the new identitarian Left which looks to identity groups such as immigrants, for their natural base, rather than to the white working class which is increasingly derided as ‘nativist’, ‘racist’, ‘xenophobic’, etc.