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Can we finally bust the myths about migration?
From misunderstanding the net gain made from foreign students to the need for workers to plug the gaps created by our ageing population, anti-immigration tropes need to be confronted, writes PAUL DONOVAN

THE national obsession with immigration in this country is often difficult to fathom.

The latest furore concerned net immigration figures of 745,000.

The throwing around of such figures is misleading, pulling together refugees, economic migrants, students and others in a headline figure that Daily Mail leader writers can then fulminate about.

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