The more governments put up measures to stop people travelling to their territory, the more refugees are forced to use false documents and turn to smugglers to help them escape. To say that some are less deserving than others is to say that some human beings are of less value than others. Sending refugees back to persecution would violate international human rights standards. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. Interestingly, the economy often grows during periods of high immigration.
Many immigrants create job opportunities by starting companies and investing capital.
Their level of education is low, and many cannot speak English or French. Immigrants are on average better educated than the Canadian-born and many of the children leading the class in Canadian schools are immigrant and refugee children. Generation after generation, people have worried about whether the most recent immigrants will integrate as well as previous immigrants. US Committee for Refugees. World Refugee Survey 1998 .