And by immigrants I really mean immigrants: you don’t have the nationality and live in the country = you’re an immigrant.
I keep reading about the plans of parties to kick out all immigrants, stop letting in any, and some parties even advocate to revoke dual-nationalities and kick those people out too. I’ve never really understood what the point of it is and have trouble imagining what the effects of such actions would be within the country.
You have to draw a line between illegals, legal and asylum seekers.
1st group: is just way of life. A country usually use these group as low class labor, they usually take up jobs what born citizens don’t want to.
2nd group: oh boy they are way better than your average citizen. They go through so many hoops and loops to get the legal status that a born citizen don’t even think about. And they are brave as heck too. Fresh blood, new ideas and diversity - usually skilled / educated jobs.
3rd group: they need help. They don’t want to be here. If things get better back home they will probably leave. Your country is doing the right things, they bring you new culture new blood.
Immigration is good for the country. Look up what happened in the southern states when the government decided to stop all illegal and unregistered work on the fields. Spoiler: literal spoilage happened.
Closing off a country is a very bad idea. Just look at some global history (Japan comes to my mind).
And even North Korea is accepting some carefully selected new blood. Do you think they would do that if it is bad for them?