This is very true actually. If you look at immigration as a percentage of population, we are in a pretty low place, behind:
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
American Samoa
Kuwait
Caribbean Netherlands
Monaco
Falkland Islands
Sint Maarten
United States Virgin Islands
Macau
Andorra
Bahrain
Isle of Man
Channel Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
Guam
Brunei
Anguilla
Luxembourg
French Guiana
Singapore
Jordan
Hong Kong
Niue
Aruba
Australia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Gibraltar
Mayotte
British Virgin Islands
Antigua and Barbuda
Saudi Arabia
Oman
Bermuda
Switzerland
Palau
Israel
Montserrat
Tokelau
New Zealand
New Caledonia
Turks and Caicos Islands
Maldives
Gabon
Curacao
Canada
Kazakhstan
Nauru
Guadeloupe
Wallis and Futuna
Sweden
Cyprus
Croatia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Estonia
Bahamas
Ireland
Reunion
San Marino
Cook Islands
Austria
Martinique
Belize
Germany
United States
Saint Helena
Djibouti
Norway
Latvia
All those countries have more immigrants per native population than the UK.
Source: UN 2015 report -
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates15.asp
Kind of destroys the argument that everybody wants to come here to exploit us - most were going to other places before Brexit ref.
Was chatting to an old Turkish friend at the weekend who was saying how hard Visa is finding to employ people at the moment - nobody wants to go and work there now, and this is causing a skills shortage. If we keep deterring qualified multilinguals this will be another company that will have to move its UK business to Europe.