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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

the thing is, that illegal immigrants now get all kind of benefits. If they didn't get anything, no housing, no food, no health care, no money, no help, how many would come do you think? Then you could indeed have open borders. But it all started with bribing people to come (like after WW2 the mine workers in Belgium and later Polish metal workers etc). If they are given nothing at all and have to build up from the ground, things would be very differint IMO. Well, that is what I had to do and I am a legal immigrant.

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Domenic C. Scarcella's avatar

You touched on the big aspect for me when you talked about subsidies.

The U.S. doesn't have an open border; it has a *subsidized border*.

And government subsidies interfere with both the natural human right of migration and the natural human right of private property. The problem -- the evil -- is government subsidization, not migrants as such.

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