this is getting dangerously close to "these globalists are ruining my country" ngl

in the first world, there's no decision between foreign aid or receiving immigrants and improving your own country. you can very much have both. it's just a lot easier to pass bills giving away a bunch of expensive stuff than it is to fix a broken country, so politicians tend to do a lot of the former and very little of the latter. especially when a large portion of the legislators are dead set on not allowing the opposition look good and block any attempt at actually making progress in the country (looking at you USA), but also just in any other country with a shitty system

domestic progress takes a LOT of time and effort, it's just not as simple as providing foreign aid and taking in refugees (even if some of the foreign aid's only purpose is to blow up middle eastern children and if those refugees are a direct result of said blowing up of middle eastern children)