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Written by Simon
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
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This link will take you to a show on the BBC Radio with Philippe Legrain about immigration.
Philippe Legrain on BBC Radio
Legrain does an excellent job of making the ethical arguments for open immigration. The politician and the English minuteman disagreed of course.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mgwhy
Philippe Legrains Blog
http://www.philippelegrain.com/
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 September 2009 )
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Written by Simon
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Friday, 14 August 2009 |
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According to Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen: "No democracy with a free press has ever suffered a famine, whereas tyrannies and colonial regimes have." This is a remarkable observation. It means that there is a solution for one of the three great scourges of humanity. The other two scourges being war and pestilence. If Sen is right and we can decrease famine by moving toward democracy we need to be asking: "how can we increase the number of people living in democracies?"And then working to make it happen.
One way is to let people have the option to move away from tyrannies and colonial regimes and into democracies. This will have two significant effects. The first is that the lives of the people who move will be greatly improved. The second is that the regimes that they abandon will be under immense pressure to change the behavior that make their citizens want to leave. In recent history we have seen a clear example of this occuring.
In 1989 when the East Germans were allowed to emigrate through Hungary to West Germany the East German regime collapsed in a matter of months and the Berlin Wall was torn down.
In Korea today the non-democratic North is on the brink of another famine. There are as many as a million North Korean illegal aliens living in hiding in China. South Koreans should begin to do today what the Germans did in 1989. They should welcome all North Korean immigrants who want to emigrate. I predict it would be a matter of months before the North Korean government collapsed a famine would be averted and freedom and prosperity would increase in the world. In a very short time the only people left in North Korea would be Kim Il Jong and the old General in the ill fitting uniform we always see him with.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 August 2009 )
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Written by Simon
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 |
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Geraldo Rivera has two great ideas in his new book “The Great Progression” and he writes them in a way that can help to facilitate a larger nation discussion. The book is due out in September 2009 and I recommend it.
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Written by Simon
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
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The healthcare debate is dominating the summer political agenda. Except of course when it is interrupted by the frenzy about Michael Jackson’s death or the Gates-Cambridge Police imbroglio. Immigration has been pushed off the front burner. The Obama administration is making symbolic moves that make people feel better about the plight of immigrants but the real trend continues to be extremely negative and it seems that the political forces are aligning to “solve” the current immigration crisis without addressing the underlying causes.
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
In response to the review we wrote of Aviv Chomsky’s book They Take Our Jobs we received from a reader named "Chaos" a list of what he claims are myths from the pro-immigrant side of the argument. Although we don't agree with each of these myths we have addressed the key part of each of them in green below. In the original the myths are followed by “chaos’s" rebuttal. To improve readability I have put that rebuttal in a link behind each myth.
Chaos writes: Advocates for allowing more aliens to immigrate illegally and legally to the USA have a battery of myths, bad arguments and outright lies -- in a word propaganda -- that they use to further their cause.
Myth #1) Aliens do jobs that Americans won't, therefore there is no harm to Americans.
Radical Immigration: The world economy is very complex. When people move around they do take each other’s jobs. Why is this a problem when people come from Mexico and take jobs in California but not when people come from Ohio and take jobs in Florida?
In classical economic theory and in the reality that we all observe every day wages are lower where there is a labor surplus. But labor supply is not a static situation. When wages rise, in order to compete, an employer can move production, automate or even totally redesign the product. Restricting the flow of goods, capital and labor have long-term bad consequences and yet they remain politically popular. At Radical Immigration we listen to the economic arguments and then we make the case that responsible people should be able to live where they choose. The economics will work themselves out.
The economic arguments for and against immigration are not conclusive the moral arguments clearly favors allowing responsible people to live where they choose.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 25 July 2009 )
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