Dave Pinsen points out these two columns from last fall by Simon Kuper in the Financial Times:

Why we should welcome migrants September 11, 2015 10:42 am by Simon Kuper ‘Norway found oil under the seabed but it would have been better off if it had discovered 50,000 nurses there instead’ I love seeing Europeans line up in airports to applaud arriving refugees. But humanitarianism will not guide policy for long. We liberals need to argue from Europe’s self-interest: our continent has the need, the space and the ability to accept people. Here’s the pragmatic manifesto for welcoming refugees into Europe. 1. We need young workers” …

and from two months later: