There are more Ethiopian physicians practicing in Chicago today than in all of Ethiopia

There are more Ethiopian physicians practicing in Chicago today than in all of Ethiopia, a country of 80 million. It is not difficult to see why the political and economic elites of the world’s richest countries would want the world to “send their best,” regardless of the consequences for the rest of the world. But why is the moralizing, pro–open borders Left providing a humanitarian face for this naked self-interest