Pro-immigration arguments sound surprisingly like pro-colonialist arguments

The Week ^ | January 20, 2016 | Michael Brendan Daugherty

[C19fan]

Have you heard a familiar ring to the arguments for accepting mass immigration or massive waves of refugees?

First there is the plea to do the moral thing. Pope Francis provided one such plea this week. "Hers is the plea of thousands of people who weep as they flee horrific wars, persecutions, and human rights violations, or political or social instability, which often make it impossible for them to live in their native lands." The message is almost flattering, in the way it says, "It's terrible out there."

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"Immigration is the quintessential supply-side policy," The Economist informs us. Just as we are told that accepting mass immigration is necessary for recognizing the immigrants' humanity, that very humanity is displaced as immigrants are reclassified as "human capital" that the West can cream from the Third World. And the West does: One of every nine Africans with a tertiary diploma is currently living in an OECD nation. Does The Economist ever ask whether this extraction of human capital is good for the nations that the immigrants depart? The assumption is that this human capital is more efficiently used elsewhere, for our benefit.

LOL - someone is seeing behind the phony baloney 'humanitarian' rationalizations to the real - - cheap labor ready to be exploited - - by elites.