This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Thought-provoking general questions or general observations
Post by Vipul Naik, May 23, 2014, linking to a Cato event on George Borjas’ forthcoming book Immigration Ecnomics. The event will be held on June 11, 2014, 12:00 PM, at the Hayek Auditorium of the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. 4 likes, 3 comments.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Thought-provoking general questions or general observations
Post by John Lee, May 19, 2014, linking to the radio transcript UC San Diego Researcher Traces American History Of Democracy And Racist Immigration Laws, KPBS, April 22, 2014. The researcher featured is David Fitzgerald. Although the linked article is specifically about the US, the Facebook post is about a general discussion of the relation between the form of government and the openness of immigration policy. 5 likes, 6 comments.
Post by Vipul Naik, May 16, 2014, linking to the article There’s A Dark Side To The Prime Minister Who Just Won India’s Election By A Huge Landslide by Mamta Badkar, Business Insider, May 16, 2014. The article is about Narendra Modi, India’s soon-to-be prime minister, but the Facebook post focuses on the remarks that Modi made about illegal immigrants from Bangladesh to India. 6 likes, 3 comments.
Post by Michelangelo Landgrave, May 16, 2014, linking to America’s immigration opportunity by Derrick Morgan and Stephen Moore, Heritage Foundation, May 7, 2014. The article endorses the Red Card scheme. 2 likes, 3 comments.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Thought-provoking general questions or general observations
Post by Michelangelo Landgrave about the effects of migrants on the economic freedom of their host state, and specifically about the differences between urban and rural regions. The post links to the working paper Does Immigration Impact Economic Freedom? by J. R. Clark, Robert A. Lawson, Alex Nowrasteh, Benjamin Powell & Ryan Murphy, May 6, 2014, for the Cato Institute.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Thought-provoking general questions or general observations
Post by John Lee linking to a paper by Michael Clemens criticising attempts to curb “brain drain” via emigration or immigration controls. The paper is available here and is titled “A Case Against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration”. 6 likes.
There will be a few events related to open borders in the near future. These are not organized by openborders.info, but by others we know.
Open Borders/PostNationalism on Reddit, organized by Kyle Hadfield, scheduled for April 30, 2014 (tomorrow). It’s online, so you can participate from wherever you are.
Should the United States Significantly Liberalize Immigration Policy?, a debate between Bryan Caplan and Herbert London, President, London Center for Policy Research, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 5:30 – 7 PM, CR 101, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. Sponsored by the Free Market Institute and the Institute for the Study of Western Civilization at Texas Tech University. Moderated by Steve Balch.
