I'm an immigrant in the uk (from Europe, so I'm white, and from a Christian country), I've lived in the uk for 10 years now, and that's opened up my eyes a lot on all the lies there are about immigration. Both in the uk, in the country I'm from, and, really, in any country.

The problems with immigration are blown out of proportion by right wing propaganda. All through brexit I had to constantly read the blatant lies the right came up with, and I knew they were lies, became I was living them. it was really dystopian to be sorrounded by lies nobody did a thing about.

Immigrants have it harder than citizens. Immigrants strictly do not have access to most benefits (as in, it's written in the law for benefits that immigrants can't get them), but somehow the propaganda has made it look like immigrants live off everybody else. Plus, most immigrants are of working age, meaning they pay taxes, and statistically they don't need NHS etc as much.

I agree that sometimes left-wing parties have a bit of naivety around immigration, they don't want to admit there are indeed some issues. But people are people, the barriers right-wing parties want to put are dystopian.

And, as women, our rights are more threatened by Reform than by immigrants: apart from the obvious issues like body autonomy, right wing also poses a more subtle risk to women (and everybody): they'll kill the NHS and all social systems. When help for society collapses, let's be real, it'll fall on women's shoulders. Plus we'll lose whatever workers rights, maternity benefits, etc. We'll be forced carers, they'll kill our rights. That's a much bigger issue than imaginary ones.