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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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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How does the Left feel about doing this I wonder hmmmmm
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