Our politicians talk, constantly, about how the United States is “the greatest country on earth” but they’re oddly reluctant to pursue the policy implications of the fact that millions of people around the world agree with them about that. We treat the desire to migrate here with suspicion, as a problem we need to solve with better guards and biometric identity verification systems rather than as something that should be taken at face value.

Our politicians talk, constantly, about how the United States is “the greatest country on earth” but they’re oddly reluctant to pursue the policy implications of the fact that millions of people around the world agree with them about that. We treat the desire to migrate here with suspicion, as a problem we need to solve with better guards and biometric identity verification systems rather than as something that should be taken at face value.

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Immigration in the 2012 debates: The missing issue.

My ultra-liberal political platform in three bullets:

Open borders.
Legalize drugs.
Cut the military in half.