More Europeans Emigrate So...

Another stupid argument that attempts to justify mass-immigration; more Italians/Britons/insert target nation of choice, are emigrating than migrants are arriving. The implied conclusion is that immigration is both a necessary measure to replace an outgoing population, and also that those who are concerned about mass-immigration and the social and cultural transformation of European nations are hypocrites.

This is a near perfect example of the apples and oranges fallacy. European emigrants who are not simply part of the circulation of labour within the European economic zone, who are emigrating to Australia or the US for example, are subject to restrictive qualification criteria designed to ensure that they have sufficient funds to support themselves, have a job/sponsor, have relevant qualifications, have no criminal record and are of good character, are of sound health, have no dependents whom their earning capacity will not allow them to support, and are linguistically fluent. The intention behind these qualifications is that immigrants will be high value, solvent, economic contributors employed in areas of the labour market which are undermanned.

Mass-immigration is unregulated migration in which the subjects gain right of residence based on supranational  legal obligations and claimed  refugee status. It is the job of the host nation to disprove, rather than the migrant to prove their status. The European migrant must first prove his case to gain entry to his desired future country, the non-European has a right of residence unless his case is specifically disproved, so we have two diametrically opposed categories of migration yoked together into a false equivalence by liberal ideologues.

Populations cannot simply be exchanged with no effect without regard to qualitative differences between the subject groups anymore than any random eleven men can be signed up to take part in a first division football match. Unregulated immigration systems will by their very nature contain a far higher percentage of unsuitable, unworthy and unqualified persons, more criminals, more uneducated people, more people with dependents, more of the sick, more of the dishonest  and more incapable people. This in turn creates a paradigm in which those with suitable qualifications (high value members of society) have more incentive to emigrate; what the liberal elite cite as a justification for immigration is in fact a major cause of mass-emigration. Indigenous people are fleeing from a country which has fewer opportunities, is less safe, has a housing shortage an overburdened health sector and failing schools. The tragedy is that it is the best of our population that has the required skills and finances to resettle in more opportune lands.We have a situation, if effect, in which we are paying with golden sovereigns and being repaid in brass buttons.