The push toward open borders has to be one of the most destructive political trends of my lifetime.
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Ha! Well I live in the USA where the data are ambiguous.
I agree that immigration is a positive economically but it creates political and social divisiveness and instability.
USA is an extreme outlier. In any case, it is net negative there as well when you include descendants. Anyone who produces below average kids will be a net negative in the future.
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Yes. The larger point is that the immediate negative effects are mostly sociocultural and political.
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The costs of schooling & healthcare for kids, externalities of a million kinds, retirement, and the pathologies produced by driving down wages are always missing.
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Crime costs alone are massive.
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It's a very narrow group which is a crime problem and the fact of this complexity is the sort of complexity that people use to confuse the public
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National Academy of Sciences report actually says the opposite for the U.S. - factoring in descendants flips moderate negative fiscal effects to moderate positive.
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Yes, outlier. USA has massive influx of high human capital immigrants, and then some bad ones. Europe much more tilted towards bad ones.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/959217364997898242 …
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