If you are an employee, you should protect your interests. This includes ensuring that you, your children, and your fellow citizens are hired preferentially to

If you are an employee, you should protect your interests. This includes ensuring that you, your children, and your fellow citizens are hired preferentially to importing labor. The 'better future' people many immigrate for includes higher standards of living for similar work. They are willing to work for less because they believe citizenship is worth something. That 'better future' only exists if the country maintains this inequality by ensuring that citizens are hired first where possible. Issues of globalization, birthplace lottery, and wealth inequality aside; these policies are in your favor if you are an employee, immigrant or not. Conversely, these policies hurt the company's bottom line by preventing hiring of the most cost efficient labor. The backlash against this message is weaponized political correctness and/or employees speaking out against their best interests.