He also made the extraordinary assertion that a restrictive immigration policy would help downtrodden illegal immigrants, such as the Morecambe Bay cockle-pickers.
Instead of adopting restrictive immigration policies that would criminalise both undocumented and legal immigrants, the EU should be moving toward realistic and responsible regulation.
Giordani and Ruta (2010) argue that restrictive immigration policies tend to worsen the skill composition of immigrants.
Steven Camarota, research director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates more restrictive immigration policies, said poverty and welfare rates were higher among Hispanic immigrants.
― Ten years ago, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, approved one of the most restrictive immigration ordinances in the country in hopes of driving out undocumented immigrants.
With all of the positive contributions immigrants bring to this country, you'd think we'd have less restrictive immigration policies.
Pro-immigrant forces are turning to the federal structure to resist Trump's restrictive immigration proposals.
But restrictive immigration policies remain in force.
All employers face restrictive immigration policies which raise labour costs.
So the country's expensive, restrictive immigration system directly harms the economy.
They gripe about a high top rate of income tax and restrictive immigration policies.
