Immigration

• Finnis’ Natural Law says all people have the right to participate in all the basic goods without arbitrary preference for any of them.
• Immigration through seeking asylum is good because it enables the person to participate in the basic good of life
• There is nothing inherently wrong with immigration in pursuit of any of the basic goods, including play or aesthetic experience.
• ‘Friendship with at least one other person is a fundamental form of good, is it not?’ – John Finnis
• • The nine requirements of practical reason require a plan of life. Immigration can be part of a plan to participate in the goods
• Finnis rejects uncontrolled immigration over prolonged periods because it risks the common good when there is incompatibility of ideas.
• Controlled immigration can be organised by a legitimate authority through application or asylum but must not prevent participation in the goods.
• "ethnic and religious inter-communal miseries of hatred, boodshed and political paralysis" - Finnis states that migration leads to violence and chaos
• "incomers' compatabilty of pyschology, culture , religion or political ideas and ambitions" - Finnis states that POC change culture in a negative way
• "trajectory of demographic and cultural decay" - Finnis states that he is against cultural diversity
• "lamented the decline of the idea of nations and peoples as a valuable concept today" - Finnis states that it is important national identities are seperated
• "Englands population had largely given up bearing children at a rate consistent with communities medium-term survival" - Finnis states that the english population is not having enough children.
• Friendship with at least one other person is a fundamental form of good, is it not?’ – John Finnis