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Immigration in the UK is something that has become a highly topical debate in the UK in the past few years. Unfortunately most of the discussion over immigration is centered around the alleged negative impact that inward migration has on the UK. Much on the media focus on the "strain" the migration causes including the impact it has on social services for example. However, what is often ignored by the mainstream media is that migration has many positive benefits including enriching the culture as well as allowing many employment positions in the UK to be filled.

For example the NHS employees thousands of immigrant doctors and nurses who carry out frontline healthcare in the UK. Not only are these people providing an essentia public service, they are also paying taxation here. Many people are that these jobs should be done by the incumbent unemployed, not by immigrants coming from overseas. But that is something that needs to be done via policy from central government to encourage and incentivise people into work, that is not the fault of the immigrant doing the job.

For many businesses, they employ immigrants as they work hard, are efficient and reliable - sometimes more so than their British counterparts. However, these facts tend to be overlooked and usurped by a media frenzy that is obsessed over the number of immigrants.