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).
General points related to migration and opinions about migration
- Post by Vipul Naik, August 29, 2014, linking to This Is What Gentrification Really Is by Annalee Newitz, io9, August 20, 2014. 2 likes, 1 comment.
- Photo post by John Lee, August 28, 2014, quoting Andrew Napolitano’s thoughts on migration. 6 likes, 1 comment.
- Post by Immanuel Guilea, August 26, 2014, linking to and quoting from If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated? by Shaun Raviv, The Atlantic, April 26, 2013. 11 likes.
- Post by Grieve Chelwa, August 26, 2014, linking to Let Everyone Into America by Jacob Appel, Big Think, August 31, 2010. 8 likes, 3 comments.
- Post by Grieve Chelwa, August 26, 2014, linking to Migration’s Inevitability and Labor Mobility (podcast with Michael Clemens) by Lawrence MacDonald, Center for Global Development, May 22, 2014. 4 likes.
- Post by Grieve Chelwa, August 26, 2014, linking to The Post-2015 Development Goals Need to Address Migration—And It Looks Like They Just Might by Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development, August 25, 2014. 4 likes.
- Post by John Lee, August 25, 2014, linking to Guest post: What an Enlightened Immigration Policy Would Look Like by Nathan Smith on the Market Monetarist blog, August 26, 2014. 5 likes.
Specific current and historical situations
- Post by John Lee, August 30, 2014, linking to The American Dream, undocumented by Suzy Khimm, MSNBC, August 28, 2014. 2 likes, 3 comments.
- Post by Vipul Naik, August 30, 2014, asking for what keyhole solutions might have stopped the closing of the US border in the 1920s. 2 likes, 4 comments.
- Post by Ryan P. Long, August 29, 2014, linking to Government plans new laws to confiscate passports of potential terrorists and stop them travelling to and from Britain by Nigel Morris, The Telegraph, August 29, 2014. 1 like.
- Post by Ryan P. Long, August 28, 2014, linking to Triathlete John van Wisse mistaken for illegal immigrant at English Channel swim. UK border patrol stops Australian in his tracks during ambitious ultra-triathlon bid from London to Paris, Australian Associated Press (appeared in The Guardian), August 27, 2014. 4 likes.
- Post by Carl Shulman, August 27, 2014, linking to Where the European brains go, alpbach.org. 8 likes.
- Post by Ryan P. Long, August 27, 2014, linking to Central American Migrants Hiding In Jungle As Mexican Officials Patrolling ‘The Beast’, Fox News Latino, August 27, 2014. 5 likes.
- Post by Michelangelo Landgrave, August 26, 2014, linking to Jerry Brown: Immigrants, citizen or not, ‘welcome in California’ by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2014. 7 likes.
- Post by Carl Shulman, August 25, 2014, linking to Learning from Founding-era translations of the U.S. Constitution by Will Baude, Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post), August 25, 2014.