For all the countries that attempt to secure their borders, it's always surprising that people don't look towards South Korea or Japan that is like 99 percent homogenous. Pretty sure Japan outright rejected Syrian refuges. For some odd reason, not much discussion about Japan being islamophobic.
Maybe having strong borders and allowing unskilled people into your economy is a bad idea?
One good thing of Japan and South Korea is that they don't really have a land border. For south Korea migrants would have to go through north Korea to get there which seems impossible. And to get to Japan you need a boat or plane. Also the language barrier seems to be much higher than for European or American countries where you usually can get along with English pretty well.