Biden wants to import 100,000 Ukrainians, more or less, though probably many more. After all, they’re a good bet: almost 100 percent literate with oodles of technological and scientific talent (especially in bioweaponry, it turns out, but that’s for another day). The exodus of refugees from that beleaguered country would be, in the slavering words of the Wall Street Journal‘s James Freeman, an “historic opportunity to recruit talent.”
Freeman says the new Ukrainian-Americans might consist largely of noncombatant women and children at first, but once the war is over, “a lot of them might decide that life in the U.S. is very pleasant, and encourage spouses to join them here after the war”–hence the estimate of many more than 100K.
Meanwhile, what would become of the beaten and battered Ukraine, whose fate has so captured the sympathies of the West? Answer: nothing good. Already beset by falling fertility rates and a brain drain that even as early as 2018 had seen 100,000 of its citizens leaving every month, the country would be sucked dry of virtually all its talent by a vampiric West, all in the name of humanitarianism.
As Andrew R. Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies says:
We should support our European allies’ efforts to aid displaced Ukrainians. But it is also appropriate to ensure that, when Ukraine is ready to rebuild, it can draw upon its own “available talent” in that effort. Robbing Ukraine of its “best and brightest” citizens may provide some small economic boost to the United States but will do nothing to help that country get back on its feet when the time comes.
The greed for talent on the part of Big Biz interests like the WSJ exposes an often-unappreciated facet of our immigration policy: the quest for human capital is a zero sum game. When we take, someone else loses. If they lose enough, they fall into oblivion. That’s how, if we chose, we could wipe out Ukraine for good.
For more, see CIS.org.
Why would Ukrainians want to come to this country, when half their family is still there, presumably fighting? In logic they would migrate to a neighboring country and wait.