Unfair, immigrants have always represented cheap labour in countries where there is a manufacturing or agricultural industry (like USA used to be before manufacturing commenced its migration).
In countries in which manufacturing has expired and industry has become service-based, such as UK, they are also required because they are cheap and willing.
Ordinary every-day consumers are the silent beneficiaries.
One of Singapore's many attractions is its skilled and educated labour force and there isn't much chance of PRC immigrants competing against much more sophisticated locals since salaries in high-tech businesses with smaller skilled workforces is less critical.
And who in Singapore would claim poverty? Your CPF is quite unique.
Also I know many many ordinary familes who have maids. The words "how much"? are not exclusive to the "wealthy".
In Singapore immigration is managed intelligently and very carefully.
In UK we allow immigrants to flood into our country for a variety of reasons mostly political and to the detriment of social development and progress.
Because we have not managed immigration intelligently this causes many misunderstandings for example, we have given our newcomers the wrong impression, that we are willing to change our customs and traditions to accommodate them and a politically-correct lobby gives momentum to such madness.
Our responsibilities as a EU member nation are towards all Europeans which, like FTO's, is impossible to honour - hence we must prepare the groundwork for the dismantling of the welfare state, state pensions, national health service, free education etc.
We cant do it for all, so we wont do it for any and funding such programmes is an awful headache so this makes our Chancellor very very happy, as you can imagine. 
