It has been criticised from human rights monitors for its treatment of the incomers and has long complained that the rest of Europe does little to help and that there is no "burden-sharing".
However, few of those are teenagers, he says, and if that is echoed in urban congregations, that may be a problem in future, "because they will be the incomers to here 10 years from now".
Sunny and lightly-taxed, its 98,000 inhabitants include many rich incomers, their fine houses tucked between fields of daffodils, new potatoes and honey-coloured Jersey cows.
"They were united by a joint detestation of the council and media," says Gwynfai Jones, a local cleric.Meetings between locals and incomers were arranged and asylum-seekers told stories of the horrors they had escaped from.
It is, but largely because of the crime that the incomers attract and are victims of.
Some Muslim leaders in Ambon believe there has long been a Christian plot to drive out the Muslim incomers.
Guangzhou, the richest city in mainland China and therefore a magnet for migrants, has recently banned mopeds and motorbikes, supposedly to reduce congestion and crime but in reality to discourage job-seeking incomers.
Recession in rich countries has discouraged some would-be incomers from trying their luck.
South Korea has also witnessed a rise in incomers since 2007 and is particularly keen to attract American-educated graduates.Immigration is, on the whole, good for economies; and right now, rich countries can do with all the economic help they can get.
For all the incentives that await incomers, at least half the world's Jews prefer to be elsewhere.
More incomers are expected: to the south, near the new 25,000-seat football stadium, Prudential, a large insurer, is building 2.25m square feet (209,000 square metres) of office space, increasing Reading's current total by about one-third.
