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Koch-Backed CATO Institute: ‘Time for the U.S. to Have Open Borders’
Breitbart ^ | 31 July 2018 | John Binder

Posted on 08/01/2018 4:58:53 AM PDT by Magnatron

The Cato Institute, a think tank partially founded by the billionaire, pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, is advocating for full open borders to the United States. In an op-ed for USA Today, the Cato Institute’s Director of Economic Studies, Jeffrey Miron, says the U.S. “has nothing to fear, and much to gain, from open borders,” saying that Americans should “forget” about putting a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration.

Miron downplayed the negative impact open borders would have on American citizens, writing:

Immigrants will not flood into America, although the rate of immigration might increase. Instead, much of the immigration will be temporary. Return migration happens because most people want to be near their families, surrounded by their own language, culture or religion.

Crime will not skyrocket. Available evidence shows that immigrants are no more crime-prone than natives. And the additional immigrants likely to enter under open borders would plausibly be even less so, because they have shown respect for the law by not immigrating illegally.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cato; charleskoch; davidkoch; frederickkoch; koch; liberaltarians; libertarians; openborders; williamkoch
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This is quite a conclusion...
1 posted on 08/01/2018 4:58:53 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

Globalists want no borders. If there are no borders, what is anyone the President of?


2 posted on 08/01/2018 4:59:46 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Magnatron

Snort.

We’ve had open borders. For decades.

That’s the problem.


3 posted on 08/01/2018 5:00:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Magnatron

mmigrants will not flood into America, although the rate of immigration might increase. Instead, much of the immigration will be temporary. Return migration happens because most people want to be near their families, surrounded by their own language, culture or religion.

Guess they haven’t been to El Paso, Los Angeles, Dearborn, or Montgomery County Md recently...


4 posted on 08/01/2018 5:01:01 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Magnatron

Jeffrey Moron’s trial balloon. Mouthpiece for UNaccountable elitist bureaucrats.


5 posted on 08/01/2018 5:01:33 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Magnatron

My guess is these illegals won’t be living in Koch’s neighborhood.

Or in any of the CATO members neighborhood.

Koch and Soros with the same agenda.


6 posted on 08/01/2018 5:02:33 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Magnatron

No. Isn’t anyone paying attention? We’re seeing Europe virtually, no scratch that - literally destroyed by immigrants.


7 posted on 08/01/2018 5:03:51 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Magnatron

Just un.....believable.


8 posted on 08/01/2018 5:04:13 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Kozak
most people want to be near their families, surrounded by their own language, culture or religion

That's why they want to bring their WHOLE family with them.

9 posted on 08/01/2018 5:04:21 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ('Kill'-google,TWITR,FACEBK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Kozak

The Koch brothers are the enemies of America in the same vein the Bushes are the enemies of America.

It saddens me that they are insulated by their money.

Justice will never reach them, and that’s a tragedy.


10 posted on 08/01/2018 5:04:24 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (I posit that there IS something left worth fighting for.)
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To: Magnatron

Koch is the old-style Republicans.

Bush. Etc.


11 posted on 08/01/2018 5:04:56 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: yldstrk

>>what is anyone the President of?

President of the labor force that is hungry and ripe for the MNCs to exploit for the gain of the few. With that kind of “free market” in place, even the most rock-ribbed conservative will start to think that socialism is a better way than the Koch’s neo-feudalism.


12 posted on 08/01/2018 5:05:07 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: boycott

The leftist freaks have been trying to convince the world for years that the Kochs represent us conservatives.


13 posted on 08/01/2018 5:05:15 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Magnatron

Immigrants will not flood into America, although the rate of immigration might increase.


Right.

That is why 22% of people in America now do not speak English at home. That is with the current border controls.

There are upwards of 200 million South of the Border. They do not speak English. They are experienced in living under corrupt governments where you bribe officials to get anything done.

This is an excellent way to destroy America as we know it.


14 posted on 08/01/2018 5:05:37 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Magnatron

These people are truly frightening because they have lost the ability to think rationally. Honestly, stop listening to John Lennon and wake up from your severe intellectual coma.


15 posted on 08/01/2018 5:06:06 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Magnatron

They’re insane. Evil and insane. The vandals are at the gates and they’re inviting them in!


16 posted on 08/01/2018 5:06:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Magnatron

Well, that’s it. The Kochs have ruined Cato. Once upon a time a good think tank, now shown to be bought and paid for shills.


17 posted on 08/01/2018 5:07:26 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Magnatron
And the additional immigrants likely to enter under open borders would plausibly be even less so, because they have shown respect for the law by not immigrating illegally.

The water boarding of logic.

18 posted on 08/01/2018 5:07:33 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: marktwain

Meant to have been “200 million who want to come to the United States” South of the Border.


19 posted on 08/01/2018 5:07:34 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Magnatron
"Crime will not skyrocket. Available evidence shows that immigrants are no more crime-prone than natives."

Caramba...!!! Better roll up our pants legs on this one...

20 posted on 08/01/2018 5:08:24 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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