This is what I mean when I said that you were a 'ten a penny' Irish Times reading idiot, with no ability to discern whether you're being lied to or not. You imbibe lies, like an alcoholic. The refugee's in the post you replied to, are not classified as immigrants in the ERSI study that you tried to mis-use for your own propaganda. The headline is a disgrace. The headline trumpeting that “migrants contribute more than the Irish” is little more than a calculated lie; carefully crafted to mislead the public and advance an open-borders agenda. It relies on selective framing and misleading comparisons to create a false impression of migrant superiority, when in reality the data tells a far more modest and conditional story.The ERSI study does NOT demonstrate that migrants are somehow superior economic actors compared to the Irish people themselves. One of its most glaring defects lies in the comparison it makes between a largely working-age migrant cohort and the entire Irish-born population, which necessarily encompasses children, students, pensioners, the retired, and those living with disabilities. A demographic skewed heavily toward individuals in their prime productive years will, by the very nature of things, present a more favorable fiscal picture than a full national population ranging from infants in the cradle to elders in their nineties. This is not proof of any inherent superiority; it is merely a reflection of age structure and selective migration patterns. And it gets worse...Equally telling is the composition of the so-called “migrant” category itself. For example it doesn't include IPAS applicants and the likes. The report acknowledges that outcomes vary dramatically by group, with employment-selected migrants registering the strongest fiscal contribution. This should surprise no one. People deliberately brought in; or who choose to come, for skilled work have already been filtered for economic activity. Thus the study speaks to specific, hand-picked cohorts, not to immigration as such, nor to the broad sweep of categories now dominating public concern. The queues in every dole office up and down the country is drowning in immigrants. We've all seen the videos of social welfare queues, festooned with immigrants about a mile long outside on streets throughout Dublin city centre.Also, not all migrants are equal. The study shows that migrants from the EU and Western countries are least likely to be on the scratcher, and migrants from Africa are most likely to be on the scratcher.
Most critically, the conclusions being trumpeted in certain quarters far exceed what the data can legitimately support. The research confines itself to fiscal contributions and welfare usage and conspicuously fails to encompass the full range of migrant inflows, particularly international protection applicants and refugees, that lie at the heart of the present controversy. To extrapolate from this a sweeping claim that “migrants contribute more than the Irish” is not analysis; it is pure propaganda.
