Dead Institutions Use Immigration

Some organizations and entrenched sectors deliberately shape immigration rules (visas, carve‑outs, admissions) not to innovate but to import labour and voters that preserve their old business or political model. The author calls this 'mortmain migration' — a form of rent‑seeking that reshapes demography to lock in declining incumbents' advantages. — If true, this reframes immigration debates: many pro‑immigration arguments are not only about growth or humanitarianism but also about who benefits domestically from demographic engineering.