And by immigrants I really mean immigrants: you don’t have the nationality and live in the country = you’re an immigrant.
I keep reading about the plans of parties to kick out all immigrants, stop letting in any, and some parties even advocate to revoke dual-nationalities and kick those people out too. I’ve never really understood what the point of it is and have trouble imagining what the effects of such actions would be within the country.
the point is, supposedly, to get more citizens into entry-level jobs. what vill actually happen is you will lose massive numbers of low-income workers, and nobody will be willing to take their place because the wages are so low that only people that have to work to legally stay in the country take those jobs. nurses will disappear, so the health care and elder care sectors will suffer, and people will die. bus and train drivers will disappear, so public transit will suffer, and the people who rely on it might lose their jobs. farm workers will disappear, meaning grocery prices will go up and there will be shortages. truck drivers will disappear, meaning freight will slow down, which hampers productivity.
…and so on.