Global Economic Troubles Mean More Countries Shut the Door to Immigration
"If rich countries were really going to shut the door on immigration, they would need to stop international flights, block their ports, end tourism and brace themselves for a rapid contraction in GDP. Far from seeing unemployment fall, it would rise: companies would fail as they lost staff and management, and demand would fall," says Ian Goldin, director of the Oxford Martin School and professor of globalization in an interview with Time, that gives a window into open-border thinking, particularly about why some support open borders even when the economy is bad.