Immigrants and Economic Resources

How soft your fields of green
Can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords
--Led Zeppelin

When people immigrate, where do they immigrate to? Do they go to Afghanistan, Venezuela, or other economic wastelands?

No. They go to where the economic resources are. Those resources are either directly consumable or they can be used in production to improve standard of living.

People immigrate to where the resources are for two primary reasons. They either seek to work in resource-laden environments in pursuit of more prosperity. 

Or they seek to forcibly take those resources from others. They might do this directly by point of gun or knife. On the other hand, they may be able to recruit the strong arm of government to do it for them.

Because people prefer to economize effort, when governments of resource-rich countries signal that they are agents for hire--willing to pilfer the property of others in exchange for votes--then we should expect large waves of immigrants ready and willing to be principals of violence.