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To be fair, population growth and birth rates in Subsaharan Africa are even higher.

Let us just be nice and pretend that there can be no negative consequences to massive population growth in arid areas.

Inconvenient problems still require discussion and solutions.

If any given area produces more people than they can handle, then it should be their problem. The dominant ideology in middle east is religious authoritarianism. If you're a liberal democracy, then its a self goal to get immigrants from there.

Well, a couple of these liberal democracies helped establishing some of the modern day religious fundamentalism in Middle East and have been part of the problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Yes, they are self goals too. It doesn't mean you got to score more of them.