Dealing with immigration (The Argus, March 21) article by Rebeka Laub promulgates the fallacy that immigrants have a positive economic impact, based on the simple figures of taxes paid against benefits received.

No account is taken of the costs of processing illegals or the costs of repatriating the few expelled.

No account is taken of medical education costs. No account is taken of the neglect of British children due to teaching immigrants’ children English.

No account is taken of the costs of the disproportionate numbers of immigrants clogging up or courts and jails.

No account is taken of the housing shortages associated with the numbers who have flocked to our already overcrowded shores. We now produce less than 60% of our food yet there is increasing pressure to permit property profiteers to concrete over of our precious agricultural land.

No account is taken of the costs of translating everything for everyone. (A person can come here, register with a doctor, give birth, pass a driving test, qualify for benefits, live and die, all without having to speak English. Little wonder there are queues at Calais.)

No account is taken of the effects of the mass influx of foreigners have on those of us for whom this is our home.

No account is taken of the effects of the resulting low wage, low productivity has on our country’s economy.

No account is taken of the vast sums, not spent here but are sent out of our country: a continuous and huge drain.

It is often that we need immigrants to supply nurses and doctors. The only reason that they find jobs here is entirely due to our political leaders’ failure to train sufficient willing trainees. There is no denying that Britain has been enriched by immigrants, but the masses of foreigners here is having a detrimental effect on what we used to call ‘the British way of life’, and it seems we are totally unable to stem the flow.

Mike Thompson, Binsted Close, Eastbourne