It doesn’t even qualify as compassion for the world because the people who stay in the third world countries are generally the most impoverished of the bunch, and with many of their own not coming back but getting benefits, you could argue that life is made worse for they who are left behind.
Right.
Whomever we take in is a drop in the bucket as far as world-wide numbers.
But the continued flow into this country is going to have devastating effects.
There is a constant brain drain, in which the best and brightest go off to university and never come back. Their choice to abandon their countries—enabled by generous immigration policies—ultimately damages those countries and leaves them less able to fix their problems. They need those intelligent people. Our policy should always be to send people back once they graduate.
As it is, under current policy, those countries are destined to remain forever dungholes.