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> Do people migrate to "contribute their skills" to a foreign country, or to improve their lives?

People come to improve their lives.

Their employers hire them to improve their lives.

Both end up better off!

More people are impacted by mass immigration than immigrants and employers.

Correct, and it is overall a positive impact. There is marginal increased competition for a limited number of professions, and a meaningful boost to local economies

> overall a positive impact.

Wrong. Australia imports foreigners at a rate of 2:1 against local births.

That replacement.

Overall a positive impact so long as you’re not the group being replaced.

Are there any examples of white-minority countries that have worked well for white people?

It helps that I’m not racist and couldn’t care less about skin color leaderboards

I used to have a more naive libertarian view, but after the last decade, observing both my countries (US and Sweden), I agree that you need to keep the immigration at a level where they have to adapt to your existing culture, not the opposite.

That said, importing smart engineers and entrepreneurs from the world is so absurdly beneficial for the US that... I can't find words right now.

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