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Originally Posted by Zee
why should they not stay there? Everyone should have the right to live where they want as long as they are willing to work. Some people may think there were unwanted guests in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, but what happens?
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A fine idea in theory. What happens in practice? Two things.
1) You get a lot of people moving to a country because they can get well paid jobs there. This, in turn, can reduce the amount of jobs for the local population.
2) You get a situation where a country gets into trouble because most of it's skilled personnel are working in other countries. This is apparently happening in Poland where major building projects are having to employ people from other countries because the best qualified Polish people are living and working abroad. This, in turn, forces prices up in that country. Why is this? Simple. Countries that have a lot of workers leave for other countries (like Poland) often have low wages. This is also the attraction for the new employers of those workers, as they can pay them more than they would get in their native country, but still less than what local workers might want. In the mean time, companies in the country these workers come from still have vacancies to fill, so they need to look abroad. That means that not only do they have to match what the workers from much higher-paying countries want, but they have the expense of searching overseas for workers.