Unless you favour open borders and totally unrestricted movement of peoples, then you favour placing some limits on migration. The question then becomes, what limits do you want to set and why?

The very small minority of people who favour open borders have somehow managed to convince themselves this would cause either minimum disruption or even bring benefits to the countries receiving the migrants. Does anyone seriously believe this? Does anyone seriously believe that Ireland, for example, could receive an effectively unlimited number of people from, say, the Middle East and Africa without any disruption or any strain being placed on housing, jobs, hospitals and schools?

There is an active debate about immigration in almost every part of Europe. It’s one of the issues propelling