I think you are confusing style with substance. All open borders advocates support broadly similar policies (reducing barriers to migration). ImmigrationWorks was not aiming to “more efficiently exploit” immigrant workers—it was aiming to increase their numbers. Whether this is framed as being good for the migrants (who get higher wages) or the natives (who get to employ them) a marketing issue, but whether or not your “your pro-social intentions get turned into exploitative outcomes” depends on the actual policies promoted—on whether more immigration is good or bad—regardless of whether partisan framing.
All open borders advocates support broadly similar policies (reducing barriers to migration).
There are going to be large differences in people’s views about what (if any) other policies are going to be needed to avoid open borders turning into national suicide. For instance, a right-libertarian open borders advocate would say “open borders is incompatible with a generous welfare state, and closed borders is a moral abomination, therefore we must abolish the welfare state (or at least shrink payouts to a level where they are matched to incomes in the poorest country in the world)” whereas a leftist advocate would prefer to trust in migrants quickly becoming productive net taxpayers without any need for welfare restrictions.
I think you are confusing style with substance. All open borders advocates support broadly similar policies (reducing barriers to migration). ImmigrationWorks was not aiming to “more efficiently exploit” immigrant workers—it was aiming to increase their numbers. Whether this is framed as being good for the migrants (who get higher wages) or the natives (who get to employ them) a marketing issue, but whether or not your “your pro-social intentions get turned into exploitative outcomes” depends on the actual policies promoted—on whether more immigration is good or bad—regardless of whether partisan framing.
There are going to be large differences in people’s views about what (if any) other policies are going to be needed to avoid open borders turning into national suicide. For instance, a right-libertarian open borders advocate would say “open borders is incompatible with a generous welfare state, and closed borders is a moral abomination, therefore we must abolish the welfare state (or at least shrink payouts to a level where they are matched to incomes in the poorest country in the world)” whereas a leftist advocate would prefer to trust in migrants quickly becoming productive net taxpayers without any need for welfare restrictions.