Cities compete for prime-pick foreign workers as they would for a foreign auto plant. The US certainly has had anti-immigrant politicians. 12 years ago Mike Huffington ran for the Senate from California on a rabid anti-immigration platform. It was a perplexing campaign for California, where whites are the minority and the only true non-immigrants are, if you think about it, a handful of Navajo Indians. Huffington was demolished at the polls.
Immigration is simply good business.
In fact it's the deal of the millennium, says Dr Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a thinktank founded by big-name Republicans. It's a form of reverse foreign aid. Instead of asking newcomers for a commitment to building Britain, they are asked solely whether they are running for their lives. What an odd standard for choosing citizens. US industry also siphons off other nations' best and brightest, trained at poor nations' expense.