Patrick Glenn
jhimmi: thanks for the link to the Heritage Foundation article. It makes several compelling points, which might help to close the theoretical gaps for people like me - classical liberals who are philosophically inclined toward a very open immigration policy but who have concerns about how another amnesty would play out in reality (and on the heels of decades of cynical, scatter-shot immigration policies and enforcement). Unfortunately, immigration does not happen in a vacuum.
One interesting section from the article: "While most open-border libertarians proclaim a desire to dismantle both borders and the welfare state, in practice what they offer is open borders today and a vague (and almost certainly illusory) promise to end the welfare state in the indefinite future. As Milton Friedman understood, open-border enthusiasts have the sequence wrong: Opening borders with the redistributionist state still intact will result in a larger and more confiscatory government."
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