Immigrants are people who came to Singapore to live or work, such as foreigners or permanent residents of Singapore. A dispute has always existed on whether, immigrants will contribute or harm the national development of Singapore, and as such whether we should continue to welcome immigrants to Singapore. I believe that they will do more harm than good in the context of today. The following are my shallow views on this issue.
Firstly, immigrants need to eat, have a place to stay, and entertain themselves; we cannot millions of immigrants in our country. While they will work and contribute to our society, they would still have to use up resources. It is true that they pay for their own food and housing, but what about land? Singapore would not have enough land to accommodate millions more of immigrant, we are a small country, and our land is limited, we do not have enough land to spare for such amount of housing and facilities. As such welcoming more immigrants would pose us a great problem on how to find land to accommodate them.
Next, majority of the immigrants come from poorer countries, they come to Singapore in a hope for a better lives. These people are people who mainly have great troubles trying to find a job in their homeland where competition is tough and life is hard. As such they come to Singapore as we greatly welcome lots of them. Here it is very easy for them to take up manual or low-skilled jobs. While it is true that these people contribute to our society, but do we really need them? These jobs can be easily done by any Singaporean, which actually lead to our problem of unemployment. If we continue to welcome these immigrants, Singapore might become the future human junkyard of the world, where all kinds of people who are unable to lead a good life in the country constantly flock here.
A Indian Construction worker in Singapore
Finally, I would like you to consider that feelings of Singaporeans over this issue. Foreigners take up jobs that would otherwise be meant for us, some of them even enjoy similar subsidies and benefits that we are enjoying. We are actually sharing our piece of cake with them. If more foreigners come to Singapore, many Singaporeans would be demoralized. This may not be a threat, but consider this, in times where a crisis, such as a war, breaks out in Singapore, who would be the ones remaining to guard this country. The foreigners would surely leave as soon as possible as our problem is none of their concern, and their loyalty lies not with us, leaving only us, Singaporeans, to face the situation.
From the points I raised, it is possible to see why my conclusion is valid. Although, in the past, Singapore relied heavily on immigrants, and it is immigrants that allowed us to flourish, I would definitely wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to our ancestors who were immigrants. But looking into the future, do we still have to continue relying on immigrants? Or instead they have begun to hinder the national development of our country.
