Open Immigration?

[Burke]

Objectivist philosopher Dr. Harry Binswanger writes a column for Forbes now. In this one he makes the strongest case for open immigration of anyone I know, although I have not signed on to it completely. It does contain a lot of good points you may not have thought of.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybin...tions-failure/

[dudehead]

Immigration is in the top three of the most important keys to future American prosperity. We must by a country that attracts the best in the world to come build their dreams. We don't have that right now, especially with all of the "build a fence" bluster that has been yammered about over the last half a decade.

[DieAGator]

Originally Posted by dudehead

We must by a country that attracts the best in the world to come build their dreams.

What country wouldn't say that?

We don't have that right now, especially with all of the "build a fence" bluster that has been yammered about over the last half a decade.

Yes, agreed, we haven't been attracting the best and brightest from Mexico so we're behind the eight ball.

[gatorev12]

A big part of our folly is PC politics and the stigma of past racist immigration policies.

The US makes immigration a fairly burdensome process due to the sheer numbers of people wanting to come. But, in doing that, it affects everyone equally. Everyone from the highly skilled software engineer from Russia or Singapore to the low-skilled Mexican or Guatemalan day laborer wanting to come here.

Showing favoritism to one group or nationality will inevitably lead to cries of "racism" these days--regardless if there's any actual racist undertones behind the policy. It'd be a heck of a lot easier on here to justify giving a white software engineer from Russia (who's studied in a US University for the past 4 years) a visa over a poor, uneducated day laborer from rural El Salvador...but if Homeland Security ever did so, you can imagine what a s**tstorm it'd cause from the media and "progressives"

[geauxgator1]

Originally Posted by dudehead

Immigration is in the top three of the most important keys to future American prosperity. We must by a country that attracts the best in the world to come build their dreams. We don't have that right now, especially with all of the "build a fence" bluster that has been yammered about over the last half a decade.

Yeah, we really need to stop all that "yammering" and just let everyone come in.

[NJG8tor]

Originally Posted by dudehead

Immigration is in the top three of the most important keys to future American prosperity. We must by a country that attracts the best in the world to come build their dreams. We don't have that right now, especially with all of the "build a fence" bluster that has been yammered about over the last half a decade.

Are you worried the fence will keep out many Einstein's and Carnegie's?