> I'll enjoy your aesthetic traditions and take your free social welfare, but I'll keep my own culture and values, thank you very much.
And I have every right to want you out of country and my taxes not to be wasted on the likes of you.
And I have every right to want you out of country and my taxes not to be wasted on the likes of you.
The more a society adopts socialist policies, the less friendly to immigration it becomes.
Both the US and most large European countries had roughly the same percentage of GDP driven by central government spending (socialism) in the 1960s...roughly 25-30%.
Socialist policies have steadily grown that percentage in both regions, with it happening more dramatically in Europe. The US is now at 35-40%, and Europe at 45-50%.
You can map the slowly rising anti-immigrant backlash in the US (and especially in Europe) to this perfectly.