Restrictionist metaphors
This page lists various metaphors that inform the thinking of some restrictionists about immigration issues.
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Getting around
Distinctions
Thought triggers
- Quotable quotes
- Analogies
- Infants versus immigrants
- Immigration restrictions as Jim Crow
- Immigration restrictions as affirmative action
- Bloggers as illegal immigrants
- Immigration restrictions and gun control
- Illegal immigration and copyright infringement
- Statist generation
- Women versus immigrants
- Save Fairfax
- Deportation to Africa
- Hypotheticals
- Controversial statements
- Personal anecdotes
- Uncharitable satires of restrictionist positions
Related ideas
US-specific
- US-specific pro-immigration arguments
- US immigration policy disconnect
- Migrant labor in the US agricultural sector
- Hispanic crime and illegal immigration in the United States
- US-specific suppression of wages of natives
- Terrorism and illegal immigration in the United States
- US-specific emergency medical care for immigrants
- US-specific means-tested welfare benefits for poor immigrants
- Mexican Reconquista
- US-specific correlation between immigrant proportion and cultural sophistication
Europe-specific
Topical issues
Tweets and retweets
- John Roccia asks what are there significant differences between eugenics and immigration restrictions: openborders.info/blog/immigrati… 17 hours ago
- Nathan Smith summarizes the case for open borders at the Daily GOOD. good.is/posts/why-eras… 1 day ago
- Chris Hendrix discusses whether technology will make borders obsolete: openborders.info/blog/skirting-… 2 days ago
- Nathan Smith shows how his arguments from Principles of a Free Society refute the views of Hans-Herman Hoppe. openborders.info/blog/nathan-sm… 3 days ago
- .@johnleemk asserts that open borders doesn't mean people stop caring about their countries of origin: openborders.info/blog/brain-dra… 3 days ago
- .@tumblingwhimsy blegs for explanations of the moral relevance of countries: openborders.info/blog/moral-rel… 4 days ago
- Glad to announce that @tumblingwhimsy is joining Open Borders as an occasional blogger: openborders.info/blog/introduci… 5 days ago
- Chris Hendrix discusses the question do we need immigration: openborders.info/blog/do-we-nee… 5 days ago
- @johnleemk argues the luck of where you're born shouldn't determine the course of your life: openborders.info/blog/the-media… 1 week ago
- @johnleemk gives a summary of why closed borders are oppressive: openborders.info/blog/a-succinc… 1 week ago
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