The border thing is kind of interesting as an exercise in boring misdirection about preferences Going to pick at this and kindly note that I have no opinion about immigrationhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1126621769522003968?s=19 …
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Except for this onehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1058367905090494465?s=19 …
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I guess I ultimately see it as a design issue with some amount of disingenuousness, assuming people are being rational which ok let's pretend for a moment
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Specifically, the main issue is that illegal immigration will occur when the expected economic value of immigrating illegally exceeds the expected economic cost of immigrating illegally Here I mean economic not in the strict (eg financial) but decision theoretical sense
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If you want to reduce illegal immigration, in this model, you need to either increase the cost or reduce the value of immigrating. Most policy levers at the government's disposal affect the cost. It's difficult to reduce the value from status, esp with the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Well, this isn't quite right--you can reduce the expected value by reducing the probability of success, but as we'll see these levers mostly have the same issue as cost levers.
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The problem with these levers, from an anti-immigration perspective, is that many of them are quite cruel; and the resulting suffering typically occurs within the US (where people care about it, vs idk let's say Yemen which is too far for empathy to apply apparently).
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So, anti-immigration forces are kind of stuck. The only levers easily available are the kind of cruel that is unpopular, so they can limit (to some extent) immigration only by playing monsters. Meanwhile, pro-immigrant forces can play a double game.
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Hmm what do you have in mind?
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