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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Np here. I have been meaning to read a new book on this subject, maybe some others here have already?

Reihan Salam’s Melting Pot or Civil War. And under the title: a son of immigrants makes the case against open borders.

Having read his articles, I believe he would have a very thorough and fair analysis to offer. I’m interested to see what he says, just haven’t gotten my hands on a copy yet while I have a pile of other books to read. [/quote]
Again, most liberals are not for open borders.[/quote]

Mmkay fine. It’s a book title. I just read the amazon sample, and I think you would jump to conclusions by tossing what he has to say aside. He isn’t 100% focused on (being against) open borders for the whole book.

I bet you’d have common ideas. [/quote]

PP here again to say that, as mentioned above I read the sample, and since then I have also found several interviews with Salam discussing his book. 
You should read and listen yourself but i want to summarize the points and logical path I feel he’s taking. (My impression of it)
-when we start by talking about our humanity, that’s great...but it’s not why we bring new residents in. If that were the case, we would consider that a survey taken around the world estimates X number of people want to come to the US to make a better life.
-so then what are our other motivations? Workers. We recognize the value that many can bring to our economy. And this is true for all classes/industries of workers
-tangential thought he proposes, when it comes down to what class of workers any country wants...it’s all about what kind of economy you want. There’s no upside or downside to choosing educated Vs. labor-class. It’s all about what you want. And his theory (maybe not his alone) is that long-term, any economy will absorb the workers that arrive. Any economy wants to find use for the available people (*asterisk!: tech can disrupt this theory).
-so, a country/region can, by selecting which new residents arrive, select their niche/style of economy. Are we going to be high COL or medium COL? Or raise the standard of living or not, and so forth.
-getting back to the workers chosen to enter, he has thought a lot about it and feels strongly the US needs to be choosing entrants based on economics, not based on who has family here. Of course asylum and refugees will play a part of our overall policy, but is or should be a smaller part (than economic) of our immigration policy

I’m going to pause there because I think there is enough meat to discuss
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