About the impacts, plus and minus, of immigration, Robert Skidelsky takes the
argument beyond economics. For
Project Syndicate he writes:
David Goodhart, former editor of the journal Prospect, has argued the case for restriction from a social democratic perspective. Goodhart takes no position on whether cultural diversity is intrinsically or morally good or bad. He simply takes it for granted that most people prefer to live with their own kind, and that policymakers must attend to this preference.
Many people have told me they get angry every time a "phone tree" tells them to push "ocho por Español" or see signs in English
and Spanish at
Home Depot.