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The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong

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Immigration, News, News Commentary, Peace, 424708, Markets, Government, Libertarian, Policy, Politics, Cato, Defense

4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They're Wrong, Cato's Alex Nowrasteh considers the most common arguments against immigration and rejects them using sound reasoning and evidence.

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Cato Daily podcast for Friday, May 21st, 2021.

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The arguments against largely unfettered immigration are repeated often,

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so often that it's worth taking them on in turn.

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Cato's Alex Narasta gathered up those arguments. that is worth taking them on in turn.

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Cato's Alex Narasta gathered up those arguments and responded in a new item from

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Libertarianism.org, the most common arguments against immigration and why they're wrong. Available now.

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I did a podcast recently with Trevor Burris and of course I tweeted it out and one of the

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responses is, look we just want a system where these people come here legally.

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And this is a sort of a common complaint I hear from conservatives, which is they're very concerned with people who are not following the rules.

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They seem somewhat less concerned about what the rules actually are and one of the complaints that you put together

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in your pamphlet here and addressed

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is, why don't they just get in line?

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And this is the one that I hear all the time, do it legally.

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As long as it's done legally, we don't have a problem with it.

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People say that all the time.

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