Not only that, but open borders actively harms the countries it's supposed to help. It supports dictatorial regimes by bleeding off dissidents, and even if healthy regimes it skims off the cream.
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Imagine someone got into alchohol and didn't clean their house. It's quite the mess. So you say to them, "Eh, don't worry, just come to my place!" I deliberately haven't said whether they're off alcohol yet.
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This in the CFR rag is clear (in one paragraph at least|) what open borders would mean for incumbents in the developed world. Disappearance of safety nets and a general fall in average material conditions. The rest is an exercise in wishful thinking. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-02-28/world-without-borders …pic.twitter.com/lIghGRQDuM
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They are justifying the worsening of life and living standards of mostly productive Westerners, so that ever increasing people from the developing world can enter the West, & live a somewhat better life than in Africa/ME while living off State handouts. These people are perverse.
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With no proof that it will work.
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My favourite thing is when someone thinks theyre a woke ass leftist for supporting open borders. All it does is drive down labour costs funneling wealth to the top. But we owned the drumpfkins ;)
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Haha, that is a hilarious claim. As far as I can tell, open border proponents actually believe that open borders would be good for all Americans. I suggest you start engaging with your opponents actual views instead of an imaginary version of them.
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Beyond the obligatory ethnic food mention, how?
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For the record, I’m not totally convinced of either side of the argument (I have a very shallow understanding and as far as I can tell both sides have equal amounts of both theoretical and empirical justification). So, i’ll let vox speak for itselfhttps://www.vox.com/2014/9/13/6135905/open-borders-bryan-caplan-interview-gdp-double …
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lmao Steve and Caplan having been arguing for years. Caplan has made himself look like vindictive child repeatedly.
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Yep - the “whites stole Australia from the aboriginals” crowd is perfectly fine importing millions of more non-aboriginals as long as they’re not white cause it’s not really about the aboriginals at all, it’s about hating white people.
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any examples of these vastly cheaper ways?
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not trolling, just wondering what policies Steve thinks someone should advocate if they want to help foreigners and not hurt Americans
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and I'm (obviously) aware that America is much wealthier than Haiti or Liberia, but not exactly sure what cost of living has to do with anything - is it not lower in somewhere like Haiti than in the US by many metrics (rent, food etc)?
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END DACA,DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS AND BUILD THE WALL.
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Steve Do you think arguing about the economic aspect of mass immig and multiculturalism is a mistake, since in truth what concerns people is the cultural changes?
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