Ask HN: Why can people migrate to some countries, but not in the opposite dir?
Ask HN: Why can people migrate to some countries, but not in the opposite direction?
The current migration system in the world in severely unfair and evil.
The current migration system in the world in severely unfair and evil.
No matter where someone comes from, both of these things are a possibility on an individual level, but at a population level, it’s more likely to move one way vs the other.
There is also the issue of supply and demand. Some countries have a lot of people wanting to move there, other counties, not so much. If those desirable countries let in everyone, without a rate limit, they’d likely become undesirable pretty quickly. Housing and resources shortages, for example. Resource shortages quickly lead to crime, and it snowballs from there.