The world over, people trafficking is the result of not addressing illegal immigration

Lizzie

Can someone help me? I want to read the story 'Cameron must Cull the Quangos' featured on the cover illustration on the left. When I click on the 'Magazine' button at the top, I get a Contents page which has no link to or mention of that story.

David Blackburn

Lizzie,

Thank you for pointing that out, it should be appearing under the magazine tab. However, you can read the article if you click on Home.

Many thanks,

Moraymint

This issue must also be viewed in the wider context of where the world is heading over the next 10 - 20 years (and beyond).

As mankind's era of cheap energy draws to a close, and as natural resources (including energy resources) become more and more scarce relative to global population (projected to grow from c 6 billion to c 9 billion in the coming decades), human beings will start moving in huge numbers.

If we think illegal immigration is the elephant in the room, try giving some thought to the implications of a world of dwindling natural resources and soaring energy costs, offset against billions more human beings joining the party.

Whilst I'm not necessarily advocating Fortress Britain, I agree that our political elite struggles to confront the idea that virtually unfettered immigration is an incontovertible "good thing". Look at the looming socio-economic mess in the UK after 12 years of Labour's utterly shambolic immigration policies.

In the coming years - perhaps sooner than many think - human migration has the potential to become a monster.

Here's some detail: http://tinyurl.com/kjoncp

Verity

I enjoyed David's thoughtful piece. However, he writes: "The human plight of migrants has to be balanced with the need to control immigration."

No. I'm afraid it doesn't "have to be balanced" at all. The owners of the country own the country. They don't have to balance their ownership against the sad plight of people who intemperately packed up and set off to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. These people are not the problem of the citizens of desirable countries. It was their decision to become criminals. The citizens of the countries they are trying to breach should be 100% in control of this process and refuse who the hell they like, not the EU. The countries that are going to be forced to become involuntary hosts will not even have a say in whether the people admitted must have large bank balances. In other words, the EU, in the hushed, carpeted corridors of Brussels, is going to decide which countries are going to have their border controls taken over by the EU, and how much they should spend of their taxpayers' money in accommodating the flotsam and jetsom of the planet.

I see in today's EU Observer that the ever ravening-for-power evil construct known as the EU is going to impose quotas for taking illegal immigrants. So. One more gigantic slice of national sovereignty - our ability to decide who gets into our countries - is slipped out from under us by the insane, Fascist EU. I see that they have decreed that most of them come from highly advanced areas, like Africa.

OUT. NOW.

Until Dave says he would immediately, if elected, begin the process of leaving this foetid pile, he must never be allowed near a lever of power.

David

Verity once again showing the how the absolute bloom of humanity resides in her soul, there.

Meanwhile, you will always get cirminal activity where ever there is a market involving something made illegal. In this case, the market is people wanting to leave and better their lives elsewhere. It can be improved, but not got rid off, unless you remove almost all immigration controls.

Verity

PS - David is absolutely on the button when he notes that people trafficking is the result of failure to address illegal immigration.

Be it noted that this failure was not the failure of the peoples of Europe, who have wanted illegal immigration to their countries controlled for years.

The "failure" was deliberately engineered by the nightmareish construct of the EU.

Disorganised1

Surely the driving factor behind people shipping is greed. Whilst pornography is regarded as a personal decision this type of trade will continue, 21st century slavery and a return to the world highlighted by William Stead. More about him here ~ http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A12461546

The Welsh Jacobite

People trafficking is a result of trying to restrict immigration.

If people want to emigrate/immigrate, but cannot do so legally, they will try to do so illegally, and criminal enterprises will spring up to exploit this demand.

It's a simple case of market forces.

Can illegal immigration be addressed effectively enough for the demand to disappear? Maybe, but the results so far, and the results of similar endeavours (e.g. against the illegal drugs market) aren't that promising.

Markets are very powerful things.

Stephen Paterson

I agree entirely that the bulk of human trafficking is caused by immigration constraints. However, empirical evidence suggests that the real numbers trafficked for sexual exploitation into the UK are way below estimates:
http://stephenpaterson.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/exposed-the-home-office-dodgy-dossier-on-sex-slaves/

Carol-Ann

I agree immigration is a huge issue one of the most important we as a small, but very desirable nation, need to urgently address. However the increasing world population needs to also be addressed. This world just cannot cope with the explosion in numbers of people, in terms of resources etc. It stands to reason less population less people migrating around and scarce resources shared out amongst less people makes sense. Improving the economic situation of women around the world is the answer as the more economically active women are the less children they have. Contraception in the developing and thrid worlds is essential. China is much criticised for its one child policy but can you imagine what it would be like now without that in place. Until our political elite separate population control from race and gender then things are going to explode in the future.

Fergus Pickering

Oh God! We must. Other people must. It is imperative that. Things are wjhat they are and their consequences will be what they will be. Why then should we wish to be deceived? Because we're litt;e lefty pricks, that's why. Of course Verity is right.

Verity

The Welsh Jacobite writes: "Can illegal immigration be addressed effectively enough for the demand to disappear? Maybe, but the results so far, and the results of similar endeavours ... aren't that promising."

That is because there - with malice aforethought - has been a creation of porous borders and a derisory, not to say snide, pretence at control.

With secure borders, any government can keep illegals out. One idea would be to shoot a few of them and see how quickly word gets round. Nations protect the integrity of their borders by repelling, or killing, invaders.

Derek

Not just illegal immigration, but immigration full stop must be addressed as a matter of urgency. In particular, though, the undesirability of a vast muslim population in England must be faced and dealt with by the next parliament.

The magazine "Foreign Affairs" has an article on the ongoing troubles in western China (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/)The article notes, in trying to explain the murderous and destructive events, that "at the national and provincial levels, Chinese politicians did little to address the root causes of the unrest -- namely, the state's encouragement of Han Chinese transmigration and the consequent subjugation of local cultures".

Hm.

Verity

Carol-Ann - This is a genuine question. You write: "However the increasing world population needs to also be addressed."

How?

Derek

@ Carol-Ann China is presently engaged in reversing the one child policy.

Japan will soon have to consider immigration to meet the economy's requirements for workers - or will have to find some dramatic way of persuading the present population of the attractions of making more babies.

Malthus was proved wrong and even in his day his logic only held true for the poor, not the rich.

Each country's demographics has its own logic. England's logic is however perverted by political correctness which holds that it is "nice" to allow in as many people as possible without regard for whether there is work for them or whether they can be assimilated and, for fear of being considered "racist", wherever possible from cultures which are antipathetic to our own and whose people are the least fitted from the point of view of training and education to participate in our society. Multi-culturalism is therefore a politically-correct attack on civil society in England - and, to date, a most successful one, if what I read and learn while abroad can be believed.

charles

Our institutions are failing us, and it is time for some sort of re-structure. Just hope it's not done the French way of some 200 years ago, or the more recent Russian way...

Verity

Charles, what's wrong with the French or the Russian or the Romanian (I believe the late Ceauçescus were Romanian?) way?