Immigrants represent self-selection for success. Those who leave their home countries do so because they reject failure and seek better opportunities. History proves this repeatedly. Irish immigrants in the 19th century faced intense discrimination yet became integral to American prosperity. The assumption that immigrants import the problems of their origin countries fundamentally misunderstands immigration itself. People who uproot their lives and travel to new nations are by definition different from those who stay behind. They possess the ambition, courage, and determination to build better futures. This self-selection mechanism means immigrants typically outperform native populations economically over time. Dismissing immigrants as carriers of failure ignores basic economic logic and historical evidence of immigrant contributions to growth and innovation.
