It ain’t about the *right* to cultural preservation. It’s about a basket of things in terms of what is optimum for the existing citizens of a country who elect the leaders who determine public policy.
And “cultural preservation”, so long as it is a reasonably good culture - is surely one reasonable consideration.
It ain’t about the *right* to cultural preservation. It’s about a basket of things in terms of what is optimum for the existing citizens of a country who elect the leaders who determine public policy.
And “cultural preservation”, so long as it is a reasonably good culture - is surely one reasonable consideration.
Or would you suggest that Israel should allow unlimited immigration? Even BC doesn’t go that far.
I’m also for a *lot* more legal immigration, once illegal immigration is shut down.
And like Elon, I’m for essentially unlimited high-skill immigration.
But like Milton Friedman, I’m firmly in the camp that literally unlimited open borders immigration is incompatible with the welfare state.
And even if you somehow mostly solved for that problem, I still wouldn’t be in favor of literally unlimited open borders, since the same thing that makes the U.S. unusually favorably placed would make it likely to be “overrun” by people for whom it’d be clearly in their E(V) interest to come here even as at the margins we had problems absorbing them. The likelihood of a mega change in culture would simply be too great.
It ain’t about the *right* to cultural preservation. It’s about a basket of things in terms of what is optimum for the existing citizens of a country who elect the leaders who determine public policy.
And “cultural preservation”, so long as it is a reasonably good culture - is surely one reasonable consideration.
Or would you suggest that Israel should allow unlimited immigration? Even BC doesn’t go that far.
It is true that the U.S. is unusually favorably placed to admit lots of immigrants, while Israel is unusually unfavorably placed.
We agree.
I’m also for a *lot* more legal immigration, once illegal immigration is shut down.
And like Elon, I’m for essentially unlimited high-skill immigration.
But like Milton Friedman, I’m firmly in the camp that literally unlimited open borders immigration is incompatible with the welfare state.
And even if you somehow mostly solved for that problem, I still wouldn’t be in favor of literally unlimited open borders, since the same thing that makes the U.S. unusually favorably placed would make it likely to be “overrun” by people for whom it’d be clearly in their E(V) interest to come here even as at the margins we had problems absorbing them. The likelihood of a mega change in culture would simply be too great.