In the nineteenth century we had the appropriately named Know-Nothing Party and 12 years ago, we had Mike Huffington. Huffington's wife Arianna famously convinced her rich husband to run for the US Senate on a rabid anti-immigration platform. It was a perplexing campaign for California, where whites are the minority race and the only true non-immigrants are, if you think about it, a handful of Navaho Indians. After his demolition at the polls, the demoralised Huffington announced he could remain neither a Republican nor a heterosexual. Bush would hold open the Golden Door for immigrants, but not out of a weepy compassion for the 'huddled masses yearning to breath free'.
Immigration is simply good business.
It's a form of reverse foreign aid. By 'assets' he means workers raised, fed, inoculated and educated by poorer countries, then shipped at the beginning of their productive lives to the US . Given the US experience, American economists would find the entire Blair-Hague fixation on 'bogus' and 'legitimate' asylum seekers just wacky. Instead of asking newcomers for a commitment to building Britain, they are asked solely whether they are running for their lives. What an odd standard for choosing new citizens.