Comment by antonvs

4% is huge. That’s one in every 25 people, about 325 million people in total. The United States contains around 4% of the world’s population, for example.

It’s more than the combined population of the top ten megacities (pop. > 20 million) in the world.

In addition to that, immigrants and refugees are having an outsized influence on politics, and on who gets elected, in many countries around the world.

It’s denying reality to say it “hardly matters”.