Every decision made comes with an opportunity cost and every policy reform comes with social cost as well.
From the labour's establishement perspective, immigration stables wages and helps to fight inflation.
By and large Western European nations have much better welfare and stronger unions as compared to North America and Asia. The force of globalisation is real and people got to face it sooner or later. It might be better for average Britons to deal with the reality rather to assume that in the global market, stopping foreigners coming in can still keep their lives pretty comfortable with high wages and low working hours.
Of course there are other valid socio-cultural arguments against immigration.
Well, just my random 2 cents.
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