Arguments for immigration written from different perspectives

Blog 1 
Male, 58,  British

I personally believe that immigration is a problem in the UK. We struggle to look after people who have lived here all their lives and can't afford anyone else to care for. We are finding it difficult for to care for pensioners who have lived in the UK for years and years but we can afford to pay benefits for immigrants. It is just not fair on our own people. Housing is also a huge problem for people in the UK at the moment and therefore we should not be allowing more people in if we can't even house our own people.

Britain is becoming overcrowded and at the rate we are letting people in it will soon be too crowded to live. The numbers allowed in year need to be lowered drastically.

Many immigrants are sending money back home to families and therefore our economy is providing for this. This lowers our economy as they don't use the money they earn or get from benefits, in our country and therefore decreases our already struggling economy.

Overall immigration is causing a lot of problems for Britain and it needs to be decreased soon or we could become even more overpopulated. 

Blog 2 (In reply to blog 1)
Male, 26, British

I don't think that your belief that immigration is a problem for Britain is right. Lots of the most successful doctors and scientists in the UK are not originally from here and yet they've saved thousands of lives. Immigration is benefiting us in our health and I believe that is more important than any negatives that it may bring. 

Some people believe that immigrants will have a positive long term effect on the UK's economy, so even if there are problems now, in the long run they will be forgotten and replaced by positives. This means that immigration may not need decreasing at all.

Obviously you and others have different opinions to mine for fair reasons but this is mine.

Bibliography: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11776411/Britain-needs-immigrants-but-not-a-swarm-of-them.html

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/17/immigration-british-attitudes-harden-benefits