I'm actually somewhat of a critic of the Australian model in the sense that I think that it needlessly wastes human talent:
Dr. Sayed Mirwais Rohani wanted to heal people, but he died a broken man.
www.cnn.com
This guy could have been a productive doctor, but he never got the chance. At the very least, there should be an attempt to try discovering talent among refugees and asylum seekers so that they won't commit suicide afterwards. And all of them should likewise be given proper mental health care and a decent life, even in PNG or Rwanda or whatever, for the same reason.
>Afghan doctor trained in China
>joins boat people instead of starting a practice in China or any other of the region's country
>has mental health problems which supposedly are Australia's fault
More likely the guy was either a con (wonder what other documents he didn't have) or a greedy idiot. I'm pretty sure one could find interesting stories about... the quality of degrees from China. Seriously, are there no more third world countries that would gladly employ even a shoddy, China trained doctor (which is not what western medical insurers want to deal with really)?
Seriously, do people think that they are owed a life in a rich western country just by virtue of existing?
FFS, some of the third world countries in the region even have oil revenues, so the pay for a doctor isn't too bad there.
I support what BoJo is doing in Rwanda since they get to stay at fancy hotels there at a very low cost, so it's a win-win for both British taxpayers and the migrants themselves. If only Britain could also provide some decent jobs for the migrants and for the Rwandans in general, it would be even more of a win-win. Working-class jobs in Rwanda are fine if they're not abusive.
Western politicians are ultimately supposed to serve their electorate, not illegal immigrants and countries on other continents hired to deal with them.
I was talking about Argentina and Chile being wealthier than El Salvador and Honduras, not wealthier than Mexico.
In that case it would have to be something like the Rwanda/PNG scheme, as legal intervention against migrants, because as far as making money goes they have nowhere near as much of a potential there as USA and the migrants know it better than anyone else.
Perhaps. But they would also need to be developing rapidly and be relatively well-governed. Wouldn't want to live in a poor country with a crazy tin-pot dictator, after all.
Impossible on a large scale - any country claiming to be well government will more or less limit immigration at some level, and only few are in such circumstances that this can be a high level.