 A new chief of the International Organization for Migrations laid out her vision for tackling migration on Monday in stressed the impotence of the economic benefits migration can have and the country is receiving migrants. Speaking from Denver, and the Pope focused on the evidence that migration can boost economies by providing well-needed workers or new innovation. The Pope recently won her bid to become the first woman to lead the UN Migration Agency defeating the current IOM Director-General Antonio Vittorino in a vote for the position. The organization has nearly 19,000 staff members working in 171 countries. The evidence is fairly overwhelming that migration actually benefits economies. When you look at economies that have had a significant influx of migrants over the years, if you look at how they're performing in the future, we see overwhelmingly that people tend to be better off as a result of migration, whether it's because it's fueling innovation, it's fueling labor supply, whether it's fueling the renovation or revitalization of aging communities, migration on the whole is a benefit. People are coming because they're getting jobs and if there wasn't an economic opportunity for them to take advantage of on the other side, they wouldn't come. So our goal should be increasingly to build out regular realistic pathways for people recognizing that there are job opportunities, whether it's high skill or low skill, and that our best opportunity, and this is where the EU leadership is especially needed and where we've seen very important developments in the space, but recognizing that if we're really going to stop people crossing the Mediterranean on rickety boats and dying as they do so, we need to approach the situation far more comprehensively.