Emigration is a wrench, and a left-wing policy is to reduce North/South inequalities so that people in the South don't need to emigrate.

This argument is used in the debates : Does being on the left necessarily mean being in favor of mass immigration? and Should we accept immigration?.

This argument is a “con” argument in the debate : Does being on the left necessarily mean being in favor of mass immigration?.

This argument is a justification of : The far-right's proposals to curb immigration are cruel and ineffective, and therefore racist. and There's also a trend on the left against immigration.

This argument is an objection to : All left-wing parties are relatively pro-immigration, Promoting immigration, which is human trafficking, is immoral, The fight against the extreme right is often misused as a useful tool for globalization. and The major globalist ideology organizations write reports advocating ever more migration..

Keywords: mass immigration, immigration, co-development, development, Third World, Southern countries, Africa

Summary

A common myth propagated by pure demagogy claims that the left and NGOs want as many migrants as possible. Yet the latter are the very first to regret that people need to migrate, while recognizing that any policy other than tackling the roots of immigration is barbaric as well as ineffective.

Quotes

« It's an astonishing new position, to say the least. Interviewed on RTL this Friday morning, Jean-Luc Mélenchon felt that welcoming refugees was "not the answer to the problem". "True realism means blocking the causes of departure. It's not about preventing people from arriving, it's about dissuading them from leaving," he insisted. "The French are more intelligent than their elites think. They've understood perfectly well, they're all in favor of welcoming refugees today - and I say we have to do it because we have no choice, we're not going to throw them back into the sea! But people [...] know that if we start like this we'll have to continue year after year, and that makes no sense!" alarmed the former presidential candidate, while France has pledged to take in 24,000 refugees over two years. »

Author not provided, « For Mélenchon, accepting refugees is "not the answer to the problem". », Le Figaro, 11/09/2015

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Justifications

The idea that the left is in favor of mass immigration is fake news propagated by the far right

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