Countries like Canada seem to think importing cheap labor from other countries is the way to keep growing and not have to make adult decisions about how to deal with a declining birth rate. That seems to be the prevailing wisdom for developed countries and everything else is called xenophobic. The main irony I see is that the biggest proponents are companies, but they frame it as a cultural issue, like how could people be against immigration, when they really just want population growth and wage suppression. It will be interesting to see which policy makes more sense in the long run.