These immigrants, who the new rich think makes a place fresh, are usually poor chick artists, fashion designers, musicians, even street vendors. Consider New York City, where the ambience produced by the lesser-income people of SoHo established a temptation to those hips, modern, high-income types who created Silicon Alley, even though they could as well have functioned from California's Silicon Valley or Scotland's Silicon Glen. So what may perhaps look like a merely compassionate policy of taking in impoverished immigrants might not, anyhow, be lacking economic benefits to the receiving nation. In fact, even an informal policy of benevolent disregard toward poor, illegal immigrants - and such a policy has a definite request to those who think that immigration policy should be based on caring considerations - has clear economic benefits. For instance in America, there is no question that devoid of the six million illegal immigrants expected to be...
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