Just to fan the flames a little more I think immigration is a good thing after all every member on this forum is technically an immigrant much the same as the ole US of A.
The country was built by immigrants and it suited.
Last month I was at my eldest daughter graduation at Huddersfield Uni,24,000 students from 130 different countries.And you could tell........Some will leave and take their education back to their homeland but will always have been educated in the UK.Good for British trade and industry.The rest may stay and put their education to good use in the UK,again good for trade and industry.So yes immigration is good but it needs to be managed.The yanks do it well and so do the Aussies but it was the immigrants that made these countries.Well except Australia,they were just sheep rustlers.... ;)