To the Editor:
As migrants from the Middle East and North Africa continue to pour into Western Europe, increasingly through “back door” portals (“Why Are Migrants in the Arctic, on Bikes? Path Leads to Europe,” front page, Oct. 10), other countries besides Germany and Sweden that are (or will be) “labor short” over the next 20 years—like China, Japan, Russia and South Korea—should open their doors to those fleeing persecution and war-related violence, at least temporarily.
This would be mutually beneficial: It would alleviate the impending labor shortages in these countries to the benefit of their national economies, and would offer much-needed relief to the desperate refugees washing up on Europe’s shores.
IRA SOHN
Upper Montclair, N.J.
The writer is a professor of economics and finance at Montclair State University.
Note from KBJ: Is there any reason to think you'll get laborers rather than rapists and murderers?
