Earlier this week, The Conversation published one of the worst propaganda pieces supporting Big Australia mass immigration that I have ever read, which I comprehensively demolished here.
Independent economist Dr Cameron Murray then published the below Tweet questioning why the authors of the article can contradictorily complain about housing shortages while supporting “open borders” and “mass immigration”.
Leading immigration influencer, Abul Rizvi, then responded to Dr Murray by stating that “only true racists use words like ‘open borders’ and ‘mass immigration'”:
Rizvi also claimed that the terms are usually used by “those that have no idea how immigration policy actually works”.
Rizvi has a history of resorting to racism accusations against those that argue for lower (historical) levels of immigration, not the “mass immigration” Australia has experienced since 2005:
Does Rizvi also believe ABC business editor, Ian Verrender, is racist given he too has used the term “mass immigration”?
Is The Economist a racist publication?
Hilariously, Rizvi in March admitted that Australia’s immigration levels were too high, but then ducked and weaved like Mike Tyson when asked to say what the level should be:
Rizvi claims to be an expert on immigration and often derides others for lacking knowledge. Yet, he is the guy who in July 2020 said that Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) had no chance of surpassing 200,000 a year this decade:
That forecast has certainly aged like milk, hasn’t it?
Source: 2023 Federal Budget
Australia’s NOM has already nearly doubled this level, with the latest Intergenerational Report (IGR) projecting that NOM will remain at a turbo-charged 235,000 a year for the next 40 years!
Here is a genuine question for Abul Rizvi: Does he believe that Australia has coped well with the 7.4 million population increase this century, driven by record NOM?
Moreover, does Rizvi believe that Australia will cope well with another 14.2 million population increase over the next 40 years, as projected in the latest IGR?
This level of population increase would be the equivalent of adding the combined populations of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide in only 40 years.
Put away the creepy racism dog whistle, Abul Rizvi. You must be better than that.
Australians are not anti-immigration per se. They just don’t support immigration at the extreme levels that we’ve experienced since the mid-2000s. Because we have lived through the consequences.
