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The impact of open borders is greatly magnified by the offering of substantial welfare benefits given by the target country. As I understand it, new migrants get a $5000 gift card plus $2000 per month, in addition to housing and medical benefits.

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Open borders, open voting, open welfare. What could possibly go wrong?

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It is comforting and amusing to know that Brian never reads any of the comments on his sub stack. The useful insight in other of his analyses might be decreased if we could actually push back on all of these open borders posts.

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Erecting internal boundaries to do so is not crazy, that's the original usage of quarantines.

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California erected border protection stations on every major

highway coming in from neighboring states, where they inspect incoming vehicles for risks of pest infestation, since if the pests start spreading it could prove disastrous to its agricultural sector. Americans have been submitting to these internal checkpoints for over one hundred years now, and no one thinks it's a big deal.

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A Brave new world

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After 100 years you only have sheep left

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It's a very big deal. If you think that's the only reason they exist.

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