Posted on 07/29/2015 7:57:12 AM PDT by Mariner
If I could add one amendment to the Constitution, it would be the one Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Robert Bartley once proposed: "There shall be open borders." There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people. An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-fold just by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding.
So I was disappointed, if not surprised, at the visceral horror with which Bernie Sanders reacted to the idea when interviewed by my colleague Ezra Klein. "Open borders?" he interjected. "No, that's a Koch brothers proposal." The idea, he argued, is a right-wing scheme meant to flood the US with cheap labor and depress wages for native-born workers. "I think from a moral responsibility, we've got to work with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty," he conceded, "but you don't do that by making people in this country even poorer."
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Uh, no. That would not work for either man.
Bernie,
How about we export our Constitution and convert impoverished nations to free republics to eliminate poverty at it’s source?
Eddie
After we return the illegals, how about we just keep those buses rolling and foist a few million of our least desirable members on THEM...
Damn well build a fence!
I'd rather vote for that than for Jeb.
OK but what is the cost of living in the U.S. versus Nigeria? betcha that dollar does a lot farther in Africa...
I think Sanders and Trump agree on this issue.
It’s the open borders elitists running both parties who are having the heartburn.
You’d be surprised how expensive a large African city like Lagos can be.
been over there? what’s it like
Spot on Bernie. I wish the GOP candidates would be saying the same thing instead of higher walls and wider gates. Legal immigration must be reduced. I guess Bernie must have learned something from his brother who is an MP in the UK.
Haven’t been there, but I’ve read about the cost of living in the larger African cities.
No, immigration-legal and illegal- can be a winning issue. Legal immigration is a bigger problem than illegal aliens.
No, Trump wants more legal immigration and increased guest worker programs. Higher walls and wider gates. A disaster.
Anyone who thinks the lives of his own family members matter, must, of necessity, decide that the lives of the Third World matter less than the lives of his own people.
Do you have a reference for that contention?
Yes.
It is sadly inevitable that wages (and standard of living) in the US will go down to get closer to the rest of the world. Many rightly rail at the huge debt that the US is accumulating, but the ugly truth is that, if those debt increases were to stop, the standard-of-living would necessarily going down.
Many who rail do not wish to accept that, but it is true.
During a rally in Arizona in July 2015, Mr. Trump hinted at increasing legal immigration levels if elected President. “They flow in like water, and I love legal immigration. I love it. We should make it easier, and faster.” Source: http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1454884/carly-fiorina-donald-trump-immigration-common-sense
He didn’t say anything about increasing immigration of any type.
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