grim

i don't know if you are aware, but ireland is a seperate country from the UK. so yes, it is a foreign state.

oh, and by the way, they (the irish) have an open door immigration policy and low unemployment accompanied by massive economic growth:

"Unlike most of its Western European neighbors, Ireland, with a population of just four million, decided to open up its labor markets to all the new EU member states of central and Eastern Europe.

The result is that 48% of all new jobs were filled by foreign nationals this year, with up to 200,000 Polish workers in the country and thousands more Latvians, Lithuanians, Chinese and Nigerians.

Despite the dramatic influx, nobody is complaining for the time being, as there are plenty of jobs for everyone. "
http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6172

so how do all of you anti-immiration intellectuals explain that then? if immigration is 'so bad' for the economy, why has ireland been the envy of the world over the past decade?

see any parallells with us? we've been booming for a decade as well, with low unemployment and comparatively high levels of immigration.

gosh... maybe there is a pattern here...

anyone care to explain this to me?

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