I wanted to draw your attention to this piece at Pew Research While the people in countries like the U. S., Australia, France, and Germany are alarmed at the massive levels of immigration, their concerns are dwarfed by the concerns of the people in countries from which people are migrating over outmigration:
At the same time, people in many countries worry about people leaving their home for jobs in other countries. Among surveyed nations, Greece and Spain – two countries that have seen significant numbers of people move abroad in recent years – have the highest shares of people who say this is a very or moderately big problem (89% and 88%, respectively).
About eight-in-ten (79%) say this in Mexico, which has one of the world’s largest numbers of people living outside of their country, at 13 million, according to the United Nations. (The country’s mass migration to the U.S. has slowed over the past decade or so.) In India, the nation with the largest international migrant population (16.6 million), 64% say people leaving for jobs elsewhere is a big problem.
I think that is a far too underreported story—the social upheaval being caused by mass outmigration. So, for example, I have little doubt that the Mexican authorities are telling their American counterparts that the people leaving Mexico for the U. S. are criminals and malcontents, the reality is that they also include some of Mexico’s hardest-working and most ambitious young people, people that Mexico desperately needs.
