Don't blame immigrants for the problems this country has, they just want to make a better life for their family.

The only way to stop migration is to make it more attractibve for people to stay in their own country by ensuring they have a decent standard of living where they are. Do you really think they want to be way from their loved ones in a strange land?

We in the west have exploited cheap labour, raw materials and questionable employment practices for many years.

Yes, the average person in this country has benefitted from cheap goods and services but the vast majority of the proits go to a few who then pay others to ensure that the pay very little or no tax. These are the same people who want free movement of capital but not free movement of labour. What hypocrisy!

Many jobs in the UK are filled by migrants because they are low paid/dirty/demeaning and many people refuse to do them.

There is enough wealth in the world for every one to have a reasonble standard of living and for nobody to starve/be without water. Until we actually do something about it there will always be migration.

The powers that be want us to blame the inmmigrants, it is a tactic of divide and rule, because while we, as average working people, are fighting each other, the ruling class are laughing at us because we are not fighting them or holding them to account.

I know many immigrants and have no problems with them. Just like British people there are good and bad in all. Take the time to get to know them, they will bring new experiences in to your life and you should learn that they are no different to you and I.

If you want to close the borders, does that mean you don't want othere on this forum to be able to bring their wife/partner to the UK? If not, what's the difference between somebody from the Philippines and somebody from another country? Where do you draw he line? Should Filipinas/Filipinos not be allowed to work? Should they be barred from claiming benefits even though they are here legally?

Sorry if you think this is a rant but it is a subject I feel strongly about.