> You see this a lot in immigration policy. Why do we have so many uneducated and unskilled immigrants with no legal recognition whatsoever, and so little immig

> You see this a lot in immigration policy. Why do we have so many uneducated and unskilled immigrants with no legal recognition whatsoever, and so little immigration of skilled workers, much of it hobbled by restrictions on labor mobility (like those around the H1B visa)? Follow the money. Well, in some sense you could also follow the labour organizations. Look, if you're a poor migrant who just got a hold of a job, would you love the idea of ten others standing in line for that same job, ensuring that you can't ever ask for a raise? No. If you were a rational human being, you'd start voting for the populist anti-migrant parties in your country of residence, like many immigrants are these days. This is proven by the wages in immigration heavy professions, that have been all but standing still for decades now. Some people even call this effect reverse colonialism. It's when you're not allowed to earn money off colonialism anymore, so you simply invite the impoverished people for similar jobs in your own country instead. What's worse is that many Labour Party equivalents across the West have even been welcoming this change, since they hoped it would make more people vote for them. But now most of them see that this stance has backfired badly for them. Hence many of them are now experiencing the lowest approval ratings in decades, as many now view them as the direct cause for many of the problems Western countries are now experiencing.