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Immigration is the elephant in the election room : Comments
By Peter Wilkinson, published 22/6/2016And it is a very big elephant; the bipartisan target is over 200,000 for 2015/16, about the population of Hobart.
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No one who thinks about it would doubt that migrants create jobs as well as taking them, but it doesn't necessarily follow that they create more jobs than they take.
http://insidestory.org.au/australia-today-a-million-new-adults-just-385000-new-jobs
Youth unemployment is particularly high. Why would a 7-11 franchisee hire a young Australian, who has rights and would have to be paid award wages, when he can hire a desperate international student who is prepared to hand back half his wages, away from the security cameras of course?
Our whole immigration system is riddled with corruption from top to bottom. I am no more prepared to believe your experts than you are to believe Prof George Borjas or Prof Bob Birrell. See
http://www.smh.com.au/national/corruption-and-crime-syndicates-threaten-australias-border-security-20160622-gpp72z.html