Immigration panic : how the west fell for manufactured rage | UK news | The Guardian
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But there are also countertrends and counterexamples. Multiple studies have found that people who have direct contact with immigrants have much more positive views about their work ethic and reliance on welfare, and are much more open to increased immigration. And there are leaders who welcome migrants, however embattled they may be. Look at France, which elected the unapologetically pro-immigrant Emmanuel Macron, or Germany under Angela Merkel, which welcomed a million refugees in 2015. Above all, consider Canada, where the Justin Trudeau government declared its intention to increase the flow of immigrants, and whose economy had the strongest growth in the G7 in 2017 – 3% a year, as opposed to the 2.3% in Trump’s US (although the gap disappeared in 2018, thanks to Trump’s massive tax giveaways to the rich and to corporations). Hate crimes against Muslims actually went down in Canada in 2017; in its southern neighbour, they jumped by 5%.
Kof kof, Macron en social-libéral accueillant ! L’article date d’il y a quelques jours, avant le nouveau projet de loi, mais en juin 2018 avec @reka on écoutait ensemble les nouvelles d’un bateau au large de la Corse avec des migrant·es dans un état de santé grave et la France avait refusé de les accueillir, ils et elles l’avaient finalement été en Espagne. Ce mec a à l’international une réputation imméritée.