So are you suggesting a full open door policy couldnt possibly have any negative consequences?
No. Clearly that would be a very difficult sell with the way the world is at the moment.
As a general principle however, I'm not a big fan of immigration controls, as they're based on a set of assumptions that I don't share; namely that I should feel some greater sense of allegiance to one bloke that I've never met over some other bloke I've never met based on where each were born in relation to a line drawn in an entirely arbitary way on a map.
Frankly if Santasdead really has been beaten to a job by someone who's fresh off the ferry from Poland, with English as a 2nd or 3rd language, then what does that say about his employability?