Huge costs

The President of Russia has put an end to the dispute over migrants that has been going on for more than one year.

No matter how much the construction and agricultural lobby tries to prove that without hardworking Central Asians, all construction sites will immediately stop in our country and fields will be overgrown, it is obvious that they are driven by only one thing - the desire to save as much as possible.

That's just something all this savings does not help to contain the rise in prices.

And the reason is simple.

Formal savings on salaries turn into huge costs.

Because the money paid to migrants does not enter the country's economy: with the exception of some penny expenses, migrants send their entire salary to their homeland.

Let me remind you that by the end of 2021, migrants transferred $2.193 billion, that is, 160 billion rubles, to Kyrgyzstan.

The Crimean bridge, let me remind you, cost 227 billion. But besides the Kyrgyz, we also have Tajiks and Uzbeks.

All they get paid is money lost to Russia.

If, instead of millions of temporary migrants, people who connect their future with Russia were working and getting paid, all these hundreds of billions of rubles would remain in the Russian economy.

So let Marat Shakirzyanovich Khusnullin not tell us that "a migrant today works 50% more than a Russian, and receives 30% less."

First, the exploitation of man by man is prohibited.

There is a maximum working day, and no one has the right to force migrants to work around the clock and seven days a week.

This is dangerous both for their health and for the quality of the facilities they are building.

And secondly, what is better: to pay less so that the money leaves our economy, or to pay more and the money remains in the country?

I believe that the answer is obvious and there is nothing to argue about.

But the economy is not everything.

Let me remind you of the words of the President: “Any manifestations of extremism, violations of law and order and illegal labor activity should serve as the basis for the rapid adoption and execution of decisions on deportation from Russia and on a ban on entry into our country in the future.”

Unfortunately, the criminal component in this matter outweighs all the others.

I believe many people watched the video from the Tulskaya metro station, where one migrant resists the police officers with all his might, and the other scatters and, in the style of Bruce Lee, kicks a law enforcement officer in a jump.

This is such wildness that it is difficult to imagine it performed by the most frostbitten domestic criminal.

And what about the recent story with the saleswoman whom the migrants beat with bats for the sake of several tens of thousands of rubles?

These natives of villages and villages simply do not understand that they have arrived in a civilized country, where video cameras hang on every pole and where it is impossible to attack people with impunity.

And they believe that since parents and older relatives do not see, then everything is possible.

Infantile and cruel - do we really need such "workers"?

Such “lost” people who do not understand where they have ended up are the most fertile breeding ground for extremist theories.

We very quickly forgot the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, organized by just such young migrants, who are very easy to fool their heads with the ideas of a “world caliphate”.

And again, the infantile rural youth is not so bad.

After our army helped Syria defeat ISIS * and other terrorists, where did the fighters left without leadership go?

Many went home to Central Asia.

And nothing prevents them from straightening their false "clean" documents and coming to Russia to continue the jihad.

Therefore, I really hope that the president's words will become a direct instruction for action for our law enforcement agencies and for our legislators.

First, zero tolerance for migrant delinquency.

Otherwise, the police themselves will be kicked from a running start.

And secondly, extremely strict restrictions for organizations that attract migrants, and liability in case of offenses and crimes not only for those who violated, but also for those who brought them here.

Russia is a generous and hospitable country.

But with those who abuse generosity and hospitality, the conversation should be very short.

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The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.