Very good article if you missed it, which goes over a lot of stuff that we currently don't have data on 🧵
Immigration has been and is a huge and growing experiment, but it’s an experiment where we have few ways of measuring the treatment, let alone the impact.
We don’t really have a reliable measure of how many are in the country, because we have no population register.
As for illegals, the Home Office haven’t estimated it in 20 years and have basically admitted they have no idea.
We do scan passports in and out and although that’s not certain because people can use different passports, we should make that available so we can see who’s coming and who’s going and from what countries.
When migrants work we should, as is the case with some US work visas, be able to see which companies are hiring them and to do what work. We should be reporting routinely what they’re being paid.
Universities too should have to say publicly what happens to their students. Have they finished their course, have they gone home?
Given migrants are 15% of the population, criminals’ migration status should be reported in the stats. It’s not about whether they commit more crime, but we should know how much crime is being committed by people of different countries of birth and what visa status they came on
The Danish and Dutch studies show the power of understanding migrants’ actual tax and benefit and public services and we should connect the necessary data sets to allow us to understand how different groups, including nationalities, of migrants contribute or don’t.
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