In one of President Donald Trump's favorite countries, the most arresting migration number last week wasn’t how many people arrived—it was how many left. The U.K. reported that net migration fell two-thirds in a year to 204,000, after years of public concern. But this overall figure included the inconvenient facts that of the 693,000 people who emigrated in the year to June 2025, 252,000 were British citizens—and about three-quarters of those leaving were under 35. All this in a country of around 69 million people. It is a sobering thought: a relatively rich country celebrating lower net migration even as its own young people head for the exit.

America, by contrast, barely measures emigration at all. The United States does not run "exit immigration" checks the way Europe and Britain do. I

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