{"id":56141,"date":"2024-01-22T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/let-us-avoid-harmful-immigration\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:24:12","slug":"avoid-harmful-immigration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-harmful-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"AVOID HARMFUL IMMIGRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56141\" class=\"elementor elementor-56141 elementor-19270\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3f29d10 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"3f29d10\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc0f657\" data-id=\"dc0f657\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2e2ec0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e2e2ec0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LET US AVOID CAUSING HARM!: LET US OPEN UP TO HARMLESS IMMIGRATION AND CLOSE UP TO HARMFUL IMMIGRATION<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c6fe132 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c6fe132\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-18fffd9\" data-id=\"18fffd9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d4a1954 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d4a1954\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dia-mundial-humanitario-mano-amiga-afectados-guerra-hambruna-problema-social-campo-refugiados-19-agosto-necesitan-proteccion-alimentos-hogares-busqueda-vida-mejor-ia-generativa-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\" LET US AVOID HARMFUL IMMIGRATION\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dia-mundial-humanitario-mano-amiga-afectados-guerra-hambruna-problema-social-campo-refugiados-19-agosto-necesitan-proteccion-alimentos-hogares-busqueda-vida-mejor-ia-generativa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a type of harmless immigration and another that is harmful\u2014one that comes to add and another that comes to subtract:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Let us welcome decent immigrants with open arms, and deport criminals and terrorists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Let us open the doors to those who come to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/lets-generate-wealth-honestly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contribute<\/a><\/span><\/span> (work, invest, start businesses, generate wealth, or at the very least support themselves and the people in their care) and close them to those who come to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-steal-either-directly-or-indirectly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take advantage<\/a><\/span><\/span> of the rest of society. That is, those who abuse the social benefits system, forcing others to work for free so they can live without working, despite not having any disability that would make it impossible. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Let us be tolerant of those who respect others\u2019 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/respect-the-freedom-of-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rights and freedoms<\/a><\/span><\/span> and, at the same time, inflexible with those who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/?page_id=56503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trample<\/a><\/span><\/span> them\u2014especially those who want to impose archaic, cruel, and unjust religious laws on society as a whole.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>\n<p>Let us be welcoming to those who arrive to help develop the country, but not to those who hold it back. C<span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">losed to those who bring regression, but o<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">pen to those who contribute to progress in its different forms.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">Let us avoid <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); text-decoration-line: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/?page_id=56503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racism and xenophobia<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\"> as well as <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); text-decoration-line: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/never-support-injustice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">naive, complacent do-goodism<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\"> that is unable to see the wolf\u2019s ears, which cause harm to innocents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the countries that have not applied the above have suffered social degradation, with problems that are sometimes serious. This has led most of those states to regret that major mistake and to make a U-turn in immigration policy\u2014although only when it was already too late. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the case in Sweden, where most of the Syrian, Iraqi, etc. refugees they took in almost a decade ago do not work and live at the expense of the rest of society. Some of them, moreover, cause serious security and violence problems. Or Germany, where approximately half of those refugees still live on social benefits.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or Denmark, where 64% of the Palestinian refugees they took in in 1992 have criminal records. Or where immigrants from predominantly Muslim North African and Asian countries are net recipients of public funds in all age groups, even among those aged 20\u201340 (when, in theory, people work and pay contributions), unlike Danes, Westerners, and other immigrants. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">Or Finland, Norway, Italy, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, etc. In addition, in some of the countries above, certain types of immigration form <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">dangerous ghettos that even ambulances do not dare to enter. They also create growing tension between ethno-religious groups that is increasingly similar to Lebanon or the Balkans.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">For all the reasons above, it is not surprising that receiving societies have grown fed up with abusive immigrants. Nor is it surprising that their governments\u2014both right-wing and social-democratic\u2014have been forced to shift their immigration policy when the damage is already done and is difficult to remedy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-no-harm-be-open-and-avoid-harmful-gregariousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race, country of origin, or religion do not matter<\/a><\/span><\/span>, but the level of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-harming-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abusiveness<\/a> <\/span><\/span>does. Therefore, let us choose our new citizens carefully, since human capital is the most important asset of any country\u2014more so even than in companies. Human societies already have enough toxicity to increase it further, and they already suffer enough problems to go looking for new ones unnecessarily.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4cd2d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"b4cd2d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1891\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1891\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Read more...<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1891\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1891\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One selection system is points-based, focused on workforce and cultural integration, as in Australia, Canada, and especially New Zealand, where attracting talent and investment is prioritized. The higher an immigrant\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/?page_id=54870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">level of education<\/a><\/span><\/span>, the less likely it is that they are someone who lives\u2014and wants to keep living\u2014in the 17th century instead of the 21st.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, it is unlikely that a scientist, an artist, or a graduate who comes to pursue a Master\u2019s degree is an ignorant brute who wants to kill, imprison, mistreat, or deprive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/never-harm-the-lgbti-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homosexuals<\/a><\/span><\/span>, apostates, or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-harm-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free women<\/a><\/span><\/span> of their rights. Nor is it likely that someone fleeing their country because they are threatened for being an atheist, freethinker, or human-rights activist is a jihadist who comes to commit terrorist acts against infidels. And the larger the amount of money they can document in order to be accepted into a country, the less likely it is that they come to take advantage of social benefits.  <\/p>\n<p>Logically, the rigor of screening should be much lower for individuals from highly functional and safe countries, such as Japan or Switzerland, than when dealing with failed and very violent states, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, or some African and Central American countries. Among sub-Saharan Africans, Botswana\u2014with higher per-capita income and public safety than some European states\u2014is not the same as others whose name I would rather not mention. <\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence can be of great help in making a good selection. By processing, through its algorithms, parameters such as those above and other relevant ones, it can carry out an objective, efficient, and fair screening. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two types of toxic immigration can be distinguished, although they sometimes overlap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The kind that comes to cause social harm&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/tambien-la-inmigracion-que-viene-a-causar-danos-sociales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">read&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The kind that causes economic harm&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/evitemos-la-inmigracion-danina-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">read<\/span><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/evitemos-la-inmigracion-danina-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">&#8230; <\/span><\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us avoid both, because every society has the right to self-protection. It may resort to legitimate self-defense, using an anti-missile shield that prevents and neutralizes unnecessary harm to itself. And leaders have a moral duty to protect their citizens.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, it is advisable that the immigrants to whom we open our borders come at least minimally civilized and integrated\u2014both economically and in the values of respect for others. Because among those who do not come that way, some will end up integrating, but others will not, and this second group will end up being a problem for others, sometimes even a serious one. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/respect-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read: \u00a1LET US LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Let us respect others <\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the West, we have become somewhat civilized after many centuries of barbarism, and we have achieved\u2014with great effort\u2014considerable advances in the social, political, economic, technological, educational spheres, etc. To avoid setbacks, it is necessary that those who come are Western, Westernized, or at least compatible with Western values. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5d9367 elementor-share-buttons--view-icon elementor-share-buttons--shape-circle elementor-share-buttons--align-center elementor-share-buttons--skin-gradient elementor-grid-0 elementor-share-buttons--color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"a5d9367\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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data-id=\"ca9d7ac\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-59606e7\" data-id=\"59606e7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f9df79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f9df79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong> Xavier Paya <\/strong><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Live Without Harming initiative<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0r_zOrwTRU9jKMsNGkX-Vn\">www.institutodelbienestar.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">LET&#8217;S NOT HARM ANYONE, except in legitimate self-defense against an aggressor.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); color: #ffffff;\">Read:<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Y-BstuMG-ZGz1yLfoAV21\">other articles from DO NO HARM!&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-add46d5 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"add46d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" 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