Actually governments all over the world -- not all, but some of them -- like the idea of boosting their population by encouraging foreign immigration, examples being Singapore, Spain, Ireland, and UAE.
boston.com
Other governments like the idea of infusion of foreign capital so encourage immigration by wealthy foreigners, e.g., when Hong Kong became part of PRC, Canada and Australia were begging for Hong Kong Chinese immigrants.
Any country with a free economy comes out ahead from immigration -- there's a well known problem with immigration of non-productive people to welfare states, example, California, but not the US as a whole.
I am so impressed by the work ethic of our recent immigrants, they work much harder and smarter than many people whose families have been here for decades or centuries.
The only reason to prefer native borns over foreign immigrants is if you value ethnic uniformity over ethnic diversity, which many do, they like to live in tribes and clans, which is antithetical to a free market economy. |
