31 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 8 May \ on: Bryan Caplan on The Demagogic Case for Open Borders econ
I share lots of the same feelings regarding "govts have no right to restrict travel"
But you can't have open immigration and welfare at the same time (now they are adding to it, saying that immigrants will also be included in ObamaCare). The whole thing is a recipe for a currency crisis.
Caplan knows we can’t have open immigration and welfare.
He has changed his opinion because Trump became president.
Caplan is trying to romanticize illegal immigrants from Latin America by comparing them to Jewish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island
Government cannot restrict travel unless Russian.
Borders are absurd unless it’s Ukraine.
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Name any complaint you’ve got about immigrants. I’ve heard them all. They’re the same complaints naysayers had about our ancestors.
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The complaints about illegal or undocumented immigration is relatively new and unique to Latin America
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