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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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cato; charleskoch; davidkoch; frederickkoch; koch; liberaltarians; libertarians; openborders; williamkoch
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To: yldstrk

No borders comes with a World Government....Ask Merkel how that would work.


21 posted on 08/01/2018 5:09:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Magnatron

It might be OK if it weren’t for the welfare state.


22 posted on 08/01/2018 5:09:52 AM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican (?)
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To: Magnatron
Immigrants will not flood into America, although the rate of immigration might increase

Oh, I see.. so those 20 million illegals in this country are just an illusion, eh? Also, I find nteresting how these ivory-tower "big thinkers" seem to develop a terminal case of cognitive dissonance toward the threat of terrorists crossing our borders. Screw the Kochs, screw the CATO Institute.

23 posted on 08/01/2018 5:10:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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To: Magnatron
The Ellis Island model worked. Immigrants were screened before they entered the US. That only made sense. Now, just cross the border and you're an American? That doesn't make sense.

Anyway...CATO Institute, get back to me when the Koch brothers open their personal homes to anyone who feels like living there.

Oh, and here's the Koch mansion in in Palm Beach, Florida. That sure looks like a fence/wall around the property.


24 posted on 08/01/2018 5:10:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Magnatron

America is rife with Traitors.


25 posted on 08/01/2018 5:11:10 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: boycott

“Koch and Soros with the same agenda.”

Precisely!

Koch Bros, supposedly Republicans and Soros a die hard commie democrat of Nazi origins. All with the same agenda which is to destroy America as founded. The financial backbone of the Uniparty.


26 posted on 08/01/2018 5:11:16 AM PDT by redfreedom (Gun control has proven success! (Such as in Hitler's Germany & Stalin's Russia))
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To: Magnatron
First the Koch Brothers,et al,should knock down the walls around their 500 acre estates and welcome anyone who might wander onto their property.

Ten years after having done so we *might* consider leaving our borders unguarded.

But not a moment before.

27 posted on 08/01/2018 5:11:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: yldstrk

I helped my daughter reach a conclusion in this regard, since she was heavily influenced while in college.

I asked her, “OK, since you are in favor of globalism, take this to its ultimate conclusion. If globalism really establishes itself, how many governments will there be?”

She thought for a very brief moment and answered “One!!!”

She was instantly NO longer in favor of globalism.

She shares my (lower case L) libertarian viewpoint that government is nothing more than people to whom you have ceded power to control your life ... at the point of a gun.

The people in the 1% want this so they can control the proles easily, and be fully isolated and insulated from the offal of the masses. It disturbs their afternoon tea you know.

And the useful idiots in the inner party believe they are going to welcomed at the table. Nope.


28 posted on 08/01/2018 5:12:11 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Magnatron

Well there went the reputation, integrity and influence of the CATO institute.


29 posted on 08/01/2018 5:15:17 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Magnatron
The Koches are traitors to this country and need to driven into exile .
And take their uniparty puppets like Plus Ryan , Reince Prebius , Mitchy , Rubio , Karl Rove, ....
The Globalist hell these two evil brothers trying to create along with
their pal Soros .

The Cato Institute has been exposed-as a Enemy of all freedom loving Americans .

30 posted on 08/01/2018 5:16:12 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever time)
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To: Magnatron

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.


Do these people actually hear themselves?


31 posted on 08/01/2018 5:16:26 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Magnatron

How about reducing the budget for social services and increasing the budget for processing temporary workers legally?


32 posted on 08/01/2018 5:17:31 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Magnatron
Isn't the CATO Institute the organization funded by the “conservative” Kochs.
33 posted on 08/01/2018 5:17:44 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: yldstrk

Yeah, because globalists have their gated communities and country clubs, secured by their private, armed guards.


35 posted on 08/01/2018 5:19:02 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: Magnatron

Time for the Kock Brothers to move to Iran, Iraq or Syria.


36 posted on 08/01/2018 5:20:13 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right.)
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To: Magnatron

They have the NERVE to call themselves a THINK Tank!!


37 posted on 08/01/2018 5:20:18 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Paine in the Neck
"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."

Yeppers, and I believe the same thing will happen at Fox news now that Disney has bought them out... In fact, I think it's already started.. Some of them are beginning to hammer Trump on a daily bases thinking they will be able to keep their jobs at Fox News... Soon Shepard Smith will be at the top of the heap... Or maybe pile would be a more accurate description....

38 posted on 08/01/2018 5:21:37 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Magnatron

Ok, the globalist foot soldiers are leaving the tree line and coming out in the open so its time for double canister!


39 posted on 08/01/2018 5:22:20 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“That’s why they want to bring their WHOLE family with them.”

Exactly, and this is also why they create enclaves within the US, instead of assimilating.

This concept of open borders is beyond insane.

By the way, I wonder if the Koch brothers have locks on their doors and security forces for their businesses. I wonder if they have restricted entry to their oil fields.


40 posted on 08/01/2018 5:22:30 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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