Citizens are more important than the economy

It is a truism:    

If there is a workforce shortage, immigration won't do any good!

Immigrants require more shop assistants in the grocery shop, more doctors, more bricklayers for new houses, etc.

This fact is suppressed by the business-friendly newspapers (e.g. NZZ in Switzerland) and the rose-tinted, left-leaning newspapers (e.g. Tagesanzeiger in Switzerland) do not mention this truism, because they want to open the borders completely for immigrants, due to ideological reasons.

Immigration is very beneficial for the economy. Companies want to grow and have the largest possible selection of a cheap workforce.

Citizens desire secure jobs and well-paid work.

The citizens want to avoid that immigration overloads the infrastructure and that their local natural recreation areas are covered in concrete and developed. In little Switzerland, 29 km2 are developed annually, which corresponds to the area of Lake Brienz. In 1960, Switzerland’s residential population totaled 5 million and has risen to 8.5 million today. Now we are forced to densify our construction.

Business lobbyists claim that when immigration is restricted, jobs are outsourced abroad (aspect A). That cannot be ruled out.

However, these lobbyists conceal the obvious aspect (aspect B) that unemployment decreases and wages rise when there is a shortage of labor.

So the question arises: Which aspect will override the other?

I believe that by sensibly managing immigration, the economy can flourish and the development of the countryside can be reduced.

The economy is fueling fears that jobs may be lost out of self-interest. But why don't the Left point out that there is also a second aspect?

There is an unholy alliance between business and socialist-minded politicians that is formed in this matter. Only in recent months have the unions exited this unholy alliance.

They finally realized that they represent not the urban, well-earning left-wing voters, but the low earners, who despite all the rhetoric, know that their wages rise less because of the immigrants.

The title can often be found in the media: “The economy profits from immigration” and it is implicitly suggested that the citizens are automatically better off because of it. But economic growth in Switzerland lowers our feel-good factor and our quality of life.

Companies are to grow in their foreign branches, so that unemployment in Switzerland can continue to fall and wages can rise with controlled immigration, without businesses having to forego growth.