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It is troubling that many virtuous immigrants are tormented by American immigration restrictions, while many immoral native born Americans do not have to worry about the restrictions.
https://openborders.info/…/good-bad-immigration-restrictio…/
The suffering caused by the Trump family separation policy is the tip of the iceberg of suffering associated with immigration enforcement.
Who can identify the author of this excerpt from a recently published piece?
"But the benefits of immigration are surprisingly large -- mostly because most immigrants are risk-takers who come to the United States between the ages of 16 and 40 -- so they tend to be at the start of their working years or at the peak of their earning years.
"The net benefits to American citizens in terms of growing the economy and paying taxes is in the trillions of dollars over the next 30 to 4...0 years when you include Social Security payments. So if the GOP wants to be a growth party, it must be a pro-immigration party. Period.
"Within the conservative movement, alas, there is a new neo-Malthusian strain of people who believe we have to worry about exploding population growth and limited resources. Ridiculous. US birth rates just hit a 30-year low, and without immigration we would have negative population growth and we'd soon look like aging Japan. Immigration is America's fountain of youth."
"I’ll be accused of wanting open borders. Subtract terrorists, criminals, violent fanatics and political extremists from the mix, and I plead guilty to wanting more-open borders. Come on in. There’s more than enough room in this broad and fruitful land of the free."
--Bret Stephens, columnist, in The New York Times, June 21, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/…/op…/trump-immigration-reform.html…
My first post at Open Borders: The Case in a year and a half. https://openborders.info/…/residents-bill-rights-fixing-im…/
Help the Rohingya with open borders.
U.S. immigration restrictions hurt American citizens in various ways.
https://openborders.info/…/immigration-restrictions-hurt-a…/
As he wraps up his work as an immigration lawyer, David Bennion offers his own thoughts on the contradictions and struggles of a believer in freedom of migration working within the constraints of the immigration law system.
It is wrong when super privileged individuals like Trump deny open borders to the disadvantaged from poor and violent countries.
https://openborders.info/…/privileged-oppress-disadvantaged/
The current resistance to immigration enforcement in the U.S. is reminiscent of the opposition to the Fugitive Slave Laws, writes Joel Newman.
https://openborders.info/…/resistance-u-s-immigration-rest…/
Are Muslims taking over Europe?
https://openborders.info/…/muslim-takeover-europe-accordin…/
Joel Newman gives reasons why millions of Syrian refugees should be allowed to enter the U.S. and Canada.
https://openborders.info/…/u-s-canada-open-borders-syrian-…/
Outgoing US President Obama recently announced the discontinuation of the United States' "wet feet, dry feet" policy for Cubans. Here's a post from three years ago arguing for the continuation of the policy.
Deportation constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, according to Joel Newman.
http://openborders.info/…/deportation-constitutes-cruel-un…/
Immigration restrictionist Peter Brimelow has previously argued that post-1790 immigration accounts for only half of the US' current population. Hansjoerg Walther rebuts Brimelow, highlighting the long-term significance of immigration in shaping a nation's population.
