The determining factor at issue is whether this social welfare plan promotes the influx of immigrants.

Literal

Problem [to-と] has-become determining-factor [topic-は], this social-welfare-plan [subj-が] immigrants [poss-の] influx [obj-を] promotes [whether-かどうか] [quotative-という] thing [copula-である].

Dense formal prose packed with Sino-Japanese compounds: 決定要因 ('determining factor'), 社会福祉計画 ('social welfare plan'), 移民 ('immigrants'), 流入 ('influx'), 促進する ('promote'). The embedded question is framed by かどうかということ.