Ode Magazine has a great article about the myths around immigration.
It begins:
"We take it for granted that restrictions on the movement of people should exist. In particular, we assume that it is normal and desirable that people in poor countries should be confined within their national borders, just as medieval serfs were once tied to the land. We never stop to think that perhaps we would all be better off if the latter-day serfs were set free, because they would be vastly more productive if they were not confined to their poor native lands.
Just as feudal lords never questioned whether their system made sense because they were comfortable at the top of the pile, people in rich countries tend to assume that immigration controls benefit them by offering protection from the poor in the rest of the world. The controls do protect them—but at what cost? Might we have as much to gain from setting people in poor countries free as we did in shifting from feudalism to capitalism?" Read on.
As I can tell some supporters of the T. Tancredo club have been peeking in on the ol' Pop Prog blog, it might be worth their time to give it a read.
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