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Why Should We Restrict Immigration?
5 Why Should We Restrict Immigration? Bryan CaplanConsider the following thought experiment: Moved by theplight of desperate earthquake victims, you volunteer to work as arelief worker in Haiti. After two weeks, you re ready to go , when you arrive at the airport, customs officials tellyou that you re forbidden to enter the United States. You go to theAmerican consulate to demand an explanation. But the officialresponse is simply, The United States does not have to explainitself to you. You don t have to be a libertarian to admit that this seems like amonstrous injustice. The entire ideological menagerie liberals, con-servatives, moderates, socialists, and libertarians would defendyour right to move from Haiti to the United States. What s so badabout restricting your migration? Most obviously, because life inHaiti is terrible.
32739_Ch02_Caplan_19016_Cato 12/29/11 2:02 PM Page 9. 10 Cato Journal Despite Friedman’s endorsement, this argument is much weaker than it looks. Kerr and Kerr (2011) again provide a state-of-the-art summary of existing research on the net fiscal effects of immigration.
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