Tony Blair on Immigration: ‘You Need Rules But Not Prejudices’

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BLAIR: "The answer to terrorism and security is to deal with those issues and you deal with them on their own merits. In respect to immigration, you know, the system needs controls and it needs rules. But immigrants on the whole have yielded enormous benefit to our societies. Your society in your country is in many ways a great country because of the waves of migrants that have come to it, the same as ours. What I always say to people is you need rules, but not prejudices. There is a huge amount of anxiety, security, post-financial crisis, economic and cultural alienation, but people need solutions to questions like immigration or, you know, communities and people who don’t have proper chances in life. If you just ride the anger, that’s the easy thing to do, providing the answer is tougher but much more productive.”