Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Quora question: If animals could talk, would they be asking humans for visas and green cards? If so, where would they deport us to, and how would you feel in that scenario?
• Bad immigration policy doesn’t spring from bad stats by Jonathan Portes in The Guardian, July 29, 2013.
• Fox News Contributor Fumes “How Dare” McCain Worry About Immigrants Who Die Crossing the U.S. Border by Salvatore Colleluori, Media Matters for America (published on Alternet.org), August 1, 2013, referring to Fox News contributor and radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.
• Immigration, Misanthropy, and the Holocaust by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, August 4, 2013.
• The Decline and Fall of the Nation State by Doug Casey, LewRockwell.com, August 4, 2012.
• The Open Borders Debate on Immigration by Shelley Wilcox, Philosophy Compass, 2009.
• The Power of Abstract Thinking by Shanu Athiparambath, August 4, 2013.
• My shattering experience with America’s immigration system by Sophie Cole, April 17, 2013, FoxNews.com.
• Mr. Suzuki’s Baseless, Irresponsible Immigration Claims by Steve Lafleur, July 12, 2013.
• Immigration by John H. Cochrane, originally published in the Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2013, but the link is to his blog where he includes more discussion.
• Reasons for Open Borders, by Bas van der Vossen, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, August 9, 2013.