How do you view Immigration?

[TNF]

Do you view immigration policy primarily through a social or economic lens?

[Icehand Gino]

Immigration affects both, but i would say it's more a social issue in context of high unemployment.

In case of low unemployment, immigration helps having more workforce, but also to keep the working costs slightly lower than expected (immigrants from "poor" countries would accept almost everything, so a wave of immigration push nationals and already established foreigners to not ask too strong wage raises and by this limiting inflation).

In case of high unemployment, nationals and already established foreigners are more inclined to accept relatively low wages, so the economic effect is very different.

In this context, immigration is more a choice of society between the acceptation of multiculturalism (which i support) or defense of traditional lifestyle.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Legal Immigration is social. Illegal Immigration is economic.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I view immigration as an issue that's both social, economic, and to an extent, foreign policy-related.

[LastVoter]

This is an interesting question, i could vote either way, but no serious arguments have been presented in this thread to consider either option ahead at this point.

[DC Al Fine]

I view immigration as an issue that's both social, economic, and to an extent, foreign policy-related.

I lean economic, but social plays a large part of it too.

[Redalgo]

I agree with Scott that immigration is jointly an economic, foreign relations, and social matter. In this case I opted to vote "Independent: Social."

Immigrants can provide many benefits - among these being greater ethnic and cultural diversity, fresh entrepreneurial activity in tough neighborhoods, more competition in the labour market, and a modest check against union and native employee overreach in they demands they have for firms.

However, I primarily view immigration as a matter of individuals being able to seek out exciting new opportunities for self-improvement and happiness or, if one looks at it another way, an out from the oft less satisfying (or at times outright abhorrent) living conditions available in their native countries.

I reckon legal and illegal immigration are both far more of a boon to than problem for the people.

[Incipimus iterum]

Social Economic- D

[Goldwater]

Socioeconomic-R.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

R--Both, but more social than economic.

[stegosaurus]

The social/cultural effects of an immigration policy that lacks emphasis on assimilation are more damaging in the long term than whatever modest economic impact immigration, legal or otherwise, has on the economy. Therefore, I view immigration as a social issue first.

[All Along The Watchtower]

That's assuming that "social" and "economic" are actually separate categories.