The age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people illegally who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no…
The age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people illegally who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. Instead of leaving, migrants must seek to voluntarily reduce their country's population to an environmentally sustainable level and stay there.
These countries are perfectly capable of supporting their populations from an environmental perspective. The problem isn't Malthusian. It's crappy governance. It's poor property rights. It's areas WROL. If it was just an environmental problem that would be solvable; Norman Borlaug did it for India and Mexico. But governance problems are far less amenable to outside solutions (we tried to solve governance problems for 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan and look how well that worked out.)
And the fact that we provide a safety valve for the failures of these countries postpones the pressure for internal reforms that would make these places more successful for their people. We are doing no one any favors.
We will still have our asylum laws (for persecution) and our refugee laws, student visas and Hb1 visas. But we can’t have this ruinous system any more.
The age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people illegally who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. Instead of leaving, migrants must seek to voluntarily reduce their country's population to an environmentally sustainable level and stay there.
These countries are perfectly capable of supporting their populations from an environmental perspective. The problem isn't Malthusian. It's crappy governance. It's poor property rights. It's areas WROL. If it was just an environmental problem that would be solvable; Norman Borlaug did it for India and Mexico. But governance problems are far less amenable to outside solutions (we tried to solve governance problems for 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan and look how well that worked out.)
And the fact that we provide a safety valve for the failures of these countries postpones the pressure for internal reforms that would make these places more successful for their people. We are doing no one any favors.
I’m afraid that if Harris wins the illegal migration will continue.
Frau: I think (hope?) that the Democrats have learned their lesson.
Never
We will still have our asylum laws (for persecution) and our refugee laws, student visas and Hb1 visas. But we can’t have this ruinous system any more.