In reply to pec:
> Its inconceivable because we can't even remove the non EU illegal immigrants who have no right to stay now, only about 1 in 100 get deported.
Current illegal immigrant and EU immigrants are quite a different bunch.
the vast majority of eu immigrants are law abiding and not so desperate to stay, they would leave the country if they didn't have the right to remain and work.
> Secondly, if we vote out but remain in the EEA we keep freedom of movement anyway.
> Thirdly if we kick out around 2.3 million EU citizens living in Britain now then the EU will probably do the same to the similar number of Brits living in the EU which would become an absolute nightmare to deal with all those very pissed off returnees.
> Fourthly it would be a nightmare for UK businesses to have to lose 2 miilion workers and then find replacements for them.
> Fifthly there would be huge numbers of very costly legal battles to fight.
> Sixthly no politicians, not even UKIP, are advocating that we should do this.
> There's probably some other reasons but that's enough for now.
> In all probabilty we would tighten restrictions for future migrants and tighten or remove some benefits which might make some migrants choose to return anyway but wholesale removal of the right to remain just isn't going to happen.
I am not sure on what you are basing this opinion. Under current rules eu migrant would have to apply for citizenship or get spousal visas if they can.
I haven't seen any brexit politicians laying out any concrete plan to pass laws to allow them to stay indefinitely.
In fact probably if they want to have a net migration target in the ten of thousands they'll have no choice but to get as many people to leave as possible, as currently even non - eu immigration by itself is above the targets.