That sucks for everyone involved, but as long as GDP grows, wages grow, unemployment goes down, it seems hard for the government to justify intervention to prot

That sucks for everyone involved, but as long as GDP grows, wages grow, unemployment goes down, it seems hard for the government to justify intervention to protect "those pesky foreigners". Yeah this might come back to bite them in the arse in the future but from a political point of view it seems unfeasible to do otherwise.