A few reasons immigration doesn’t work
Immigration is marketed as diversity, growth, and opportunity. But when you look closely — at the numbers and at the communities themselves — the picture is darker. Immigration often produces parallel societies, crime, and poverty. This isn’t about how foreigners are “bad people.” It’s about what actually happens when millions of people from one country come
1. Parallel Societies Instead of Integration
When one person moves abroad, integration is likely. That person learns the language, adapts to the culture, and blends in. But when tens of thousands arrive from the same country, they don’t assimilate. They recreate the home country inside the host.
In Japan, outsiders stand out instantly. Kids from abroad are often told to dye their hair black just to “look Japanese.” Foreigners on the subway find empty seats next to them. Indian communities in Japan often end up recreating “India inside Japan,” because Japanese and Indians rarely mix.
Sweden shows the same pattern on a bigger scale. Wealthy, safe Swedish neighborhoods exist side by side with poor immigrant-dominated areas, often Islamic, plagued by unemployment, crime, and riots. These communities don’t become Swedish; they remain isolated.
2. The Economic Burden
Supporters love to cite GDP, but GDP per capita is what matters. In the U.K., a House of Lords report concluded immigration had “little or no” impact on GDP per person. In Denmark, non-Western immigrants were a net cost to taxpayers, using more in welfare and public services than they paid in.
In the U.S., Harvard economist George Borjas found that a 10% rise in low-skilled immigration cut wages for native low-skilled workers by 3–4%. That means working-class citizens lose income while elites benefit from cheaper labor. Immigration doesn’t grow the pie equally; it shifts slices downward.
3. Social Trust and Security Collapse
Here are the numbers few politicians want to talk about:
Sweden has about 62,000 people linked to criminal gangs; 14,000 are active members.
Over 80% of shootings in Sweden occur in these gang environments, heavily concentrated in immigrant neighborhoods.
Reports show 90% of gun-murder and attempted-murder suspects in Sweden are immigrants or have at least one immigrant parent. In Stockholm, 94.5% of career gang members have an immigrant background.
Sexual crimes follow the same pattern: 58% of convicted rapists and attempted rapists in Sweden have a foreign background; in cases where victim and attacker are strangers, 75% of perpetrators were born outside Europe.
In France, African foreigners are 17× more likely to be suspected of thefts on public transport and 14× more likely to be suspects in violent theft compared to their population share.
Foreigners in France are also heavily overrepresented in prisons, especially for violent crimes.
These are not isolated incidents. They show a consistent pattern: when integration fails, crime rises, and trust between groups collapses. The result is not “diversity.” It is fragmentation.
4. Political and Institutional Breakdown
Immigration doesn’t just cause crime — it destabilizes politics. In Germany, Merkel’s 2015 refugee policy fueled the rise of the AfD, a nationalist party that now polls near the top. In Britain, resentment over mass immigration drove Brexit. In the U.S., decades of illegal immigration have turned border security into one of the most polarizing issues in politics.
Meanwhile, institutions crack under the strain. Lebanon, with 6 million citizens, took in 1 million Syrians. Its schools and hospitals buckled. Even wealthy welfare states like Sweden and Germany discovered their systems weren’t built for this scale of immigration.
Conclusion
Immigration works on a small scale, when individuals integrate. But mass immigration produces segregation, poverty, crime, political backlash, and division,. The numbers don’t lie: Sweden’s shootings, France’s robberies, Germany’s refugee crisis, Britain’s Brexit. Immigration doesn’t fail occasionally. It fails often — and for reasons we can measure.