Here's why those are different: One is an abstract affect on your paycheck that may, or may not be real.
And the other is a definitive slight against my worth and my legitimacy as their co-worker.
And the other is a definitive slight against my worth and my legitimacy as their co-worker.
Personally, I think that high-skill immigration is a very good thing for the country, and not a bad thing for the workers in the sectors they'd be joining. It's a globalized economy - competing with an engineer from Korea when they're 50 feet down the street isn't that far from competing with them while they're in Seoul.