Archive for the “immigration” category

Exploitation: Immigrants and Slaves

May 6, 2008

Continuing my recent ponderings and pontifications on the topic of “illegal immigration,” I came across the following argument, which I believe to be a widely-held, yet erroneous belief:
Illegal immigration causes an enormous drain on public funds. The seminal study of the costs of immigration by the National Academy of Sciences found that the taxes […]

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Immigration Laws Kill

May 5, 2008

If you advocate immigration laws, you have to accept collateral damage towards a “greater good.”
You believe that the price to be paid by the immigrants of the world is justified by some perceived benefit accruing to someone else — someone else who probably hasn’t had to pay any price whatsoever. You must believe that […]

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Illegal Immigration

May 2, 2008

For the better part of American history, there were quite simply, no immigration laws. And the land survived wave after wave of immigrants, from the dastardly Germans, to the drunken Irish, to the opiated Chinese. As I previously analyzed immigration,
From 1800 through 2000, the population of the United States increased 51-fold! During […]

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Racial Profiling for Thee, Not for Me

September 14, 2007

This was almost included in the Questions earlier, but I feel deserves a stand-alone entry.
Keeping in mind that the state is nearly bankrupt, the following is analogous to buying another pack of cigarettes with the last welfare check:
Although profiling is a useful pseudo-science in law-enforcement and apprehension, most people dislike “racial profiling” in most other […]

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