Weight immigration by sending‑country quality

Select immigrants not only on individual traits but also on measurable attributes of their sending country — e.g., civic trust, rule‑of‑law, educational attainment, or intergenerational secularization trends — with the claim that origin‑level conditions predict assimilation and civic outcomes. This reframes selection from purely individual merit to a two‑level assessment (person + origin context). — Introducing an explicit country‑quality weighting would reframe immigration debates from individual deservingness to aggregate social risk and could legitimize new policy levers that are politically and ethically contentious.