Peter Sutherland: Unlimited immigration into Europe from Africa is a benefit

Broadcast on RTÉ radio, Ireland June 2015, Peter Sutherland chairman of Goldman Sachs International comments on looking at potential figures of 240,000 migrants arriving in Europe each year and whether anyone has worked out what the capacity of Europe is to deal with these numbers of migrants:

"Those figures are laughable in the context of the total European population of 500 million. The figures you are talking about are literally a drop in the ocean. We could easily handle that. Germany could take a lot more and still have a deficiency in terms of its aging population. Today's population in Germany is over 55% in favour of having more migrants.

Governments have to lead by giving the positive news that migrants are good for a community, economically and every other way rather than constantly expressing them as a burden because they are not really a burden. Within a very short period of time they contribute positively to the community in which they live.

It's going to take a long time to solve the inherent problems of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa so we're going to live with the issue of migration for a very long time.”

In this interview Peter Sutherland seems to be referencing a 2014 study carried out by University College London when he said immigration is positive for the UK. What he completely failed to mention however is that the study found that migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) made a negative contribution to the public purse of £117.9 billion because they consumed more in public expenditure – including NHS costs, welfare hand-outs and education – than they contributed in taxes while only the recent immigration from Europe – driven by the surge in arrivals from eastern European – gave the economy a £4.4 billion boost over the same period.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new....s/uknews/immigration

The same pattern is seen in Denmark: Non-western immigrants cost the danish society 16.6 billion DKK each year, a number which is only rising while Eastern European gives us a net benefit of 3.8 billion DKK in taxes.
http://politiken.dk/indland/EC....E2196193/ikke-vestli

And from a UK report in 2009: Compared with the UK average of 22% of the working age population being economically inactive, Somali, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Iranian immigrants are likely to be 81%, 56%, 55% and 48% economically inactive respectively.
http://www.migrationwatchuk.or....g/briefingPaper/docu

infrowars write-up: http://www.infowars.com/goldma....n-sachs-boss-bilderb