Thus the Financial Times today. “Fall in legal migration highlights risk to European competitiveness,” elaborates the newspaper. Apparently, the European Union has fallen behind the States as a destination for immigrants for the first time in more than a decade. The fall is believed to have to do with the stagnant economies in Europe. In addition, the American economy has picked up in the last year or so, and this must explain a good part of migrants’ behavior. However, the article fails to mention why the States have fallen behind Europe more than a decade ago. Of course, it was September 11, 2001. This is when American attitudes toward immigrants suddenly shifted. Europe had a chance to attract the best and the brightest from around the globe, but failed to do much if anything in that direction. In fact, everything was left to chance. Now that Americans are softening their attitudes toward immigrants, and especially the skilled ones, things are returning to where they were before the Twin Towers. Sadly, much of this is beyond European policy-makers concerned with immigration. The same holds for newspapers of renown, as well.