Wolfbeckett
Jerkin' and nonsense.
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That's a good point. Even though I have a hard time sympathising with people who have such viewpoints, part of the objective of this thread is to suss out more substantive things from such viewpoints apart from the "Islamophobic ranting" (whether or not some people understand what I'm going for here or choose not to understand and try to pick a fight instead).
I'm not saying you agree with the anti-immigration camp, but if you were a decision maker in Europe, knowing about the issues they are facing with immigration and cultures, what sort of decisions would you make today?
The decisions I would make would depend a great deal on which country I was in charge of in this hypothetical scenario. If I was in charge of a country that had little or no welfare state, I would be a lot more generous in letting people in since they aren't going to be taking money out of the pockets of the people who already live there. If I was making the decision in a country that had a large welfare state like Sweden it would be a different story, in that case I would feel morally obligated to be very selective about who I let in to make sure I'm only taking on people who seem likely to be a net gain for the country, people who are educated or have job skills.
In either case I would make sure that the immigrants were spaced out over the whole country, no immigrant camps, the idea being that there won't be enough of them in any one place to clump together and avoid interacting with the extant population, they'll have to shop at the same stores, eat at the same restaurants, etc. Mandatory classes to learn the local language seem appropriate as well, can't integrate with the community if you can't effectively communicate. That's just a few ideas, I'm sure there are other things that can be done to mitigate risk depending on exactly how selective I felt I needed to be based on the country I was in. I hear that Poland, for example, has been very choosy, only letting in a few hundred refugees, almost all of whom are Christian families.