U.S. border policies and their enforcement are almost wholly based on the ideas that migrants are a threat to safety and economic prosperity. I don't expect any near-term changes in either those policies or their underlying attitudes. However, not every country is dominated by such distortions, and it is possible to see alternatives in action elsewhere.
Spain, for instance, is outpacing the rest of Europe in regard to GDP growth, largely thanks to a thriving tourist industry staffed mostly with recent migrants to the country. The migrants' entry into the workforce is facilitated by supportive housing and training services such as language instruction. The result has been that Spain's economic growth now exceeds that of Germany, France, Italy and England, and unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since 2008.
All of the above is nicely explained in a recent Guardian article, How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar.
