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Let me try another argument.
Would you rather:
1) Pay taxes to pay for a plumber's schooling, starting with kindergarten or 2) Have foreigners pay taxes to pay for a plumber's schooling, and then have the plumber immigrate to your country?
It costs a lot of money to educate a child. When you let in an educated immigrant, your country gets all the benefits of that immigrant's education without having to pay for it.
The original question compares extra immigrants to doing nothing. It doesn't compare extra immigrants to extra natives. Your suggestion that extra immigrants are better than extra natives is irrelevant to the question, even if true.
(And if I was a plumber, I wouldn't want either extra immigrant plumbers or extra native plumbers. There is a reason that cartels try to limit the number of people in a profession.)