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I have two questions for the people commenting who think immigration barriers actually benefit the local incumbents. 1) Since the economic argument for free tr
by freefrancisco 14y ago
I have two questions for the people commenting who think immigration barriers actually benefit the local incumbents.
1) Since the economic argument for free trade applies to the labor market as well, one cannot logically be an advocate of free trade and anti-immigration at the same time. Do you maintain that free trade is actually bad for the United States?
2) If free immigration between countries is bad, then it follows that it is also bad between states, between cities, and between neighborhoods. Do you believe that your state, your city, and your neighborhood would be better off if there was a legal barrier to immigration at the state, city, and neighborhood level?
- mc32 14y ago2. Not if there were reciprocity. Btwn states there is reciprocity. I can move to RI and an RIer could move to CA without limit. Someone from the US can't easily get a job in BR, for example, unless business could prove no BRlian could do the job.