Most people these days seem to accept that
immigrants make great contributions culturally, politically and
economically to the nation they migrate to. Even the critics of
Britain's current open-door policy find it difficult to dismiss the
benefits gained from the current wave of immigrants from Eastern
Europe except, Migration watch that is. Having said that, the chairman
of Migration watch, Sir Andrew Green, actually, conceded that of
'course many immigrants make a useful contribution to the economy
but, taken in total, the economic benefit is at best marginal'. The
fact that the host nation and the immigrants themselves both benefit
seems to have been lost somewhere in translation. Indeed, it is left
to the astute blogger, Tim Worstall, who kindly reminds us all that
such benefits is normally known as 'Pareto improvement'.
