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That could be the case without colonialism, pollution, foreign interventions, war or expansionism. Your argument is for the single country to do everything to enhance it's own citizens but that has never been a defensive measure. "Protecting the borders" now is a way to completely ignore any past actions that state has done to the world.
People don't choose where they're born. People don't choose what their ancestors have done. To deny the Western World has stolen wealth and caused pollution is madness though. Even now, we introduce environmental restrictions locally but want to buy cheap goods from Asia, so we have and continue to outsource our problems.
When they become uninhabitable, due to the historic wealth extraction, push to industrialise and us throwing money at them to do the things we don't want to do but still keeping the profit and high standard of living, is it any wonder people want to come here?!?
And considering govts are no longer really going by their original reason of existence and really only trying to extract value from citizens, while amassing power, the ideal scenario can't really be played out any more.
Still though, I don't see how accepting immigrants one cannot value, is going to do any good. The birthplace govts should be the ones making their place better for said citizens. It's not like they don't know what standards their people expect.
For those that are making the other countries worse, just accepting immigrants is hardly an acceptable answer. The mindless profiteering needs to be fixed in the first place. A duct tape measure to look charitable, won't really fix the underlying problem.