- Make it hard for the most valuable people to come
- In almost every country, need is the standard for large immigration. There are millions of skilled people from India that could immediately create value as programmers, doctors, etc. who are unable to enter while unskilled refugees are the only population that is able to immigrate at scale. To be clear I think that governments have no right to block either group, but the current set up prevents the exact people that countries should love to have.
- Use zoning rules to make low-cost housing (like small apartments, tiny houses, and private temporary) illegal.
- Eliminate the types of housing poor refugees could live in and instead push them into tent city camps and use the same laws to prevent legal commerce from entering into temporary housing camps.
- Raise the minimum wage
- Make it illegal for unskilled refugees to work at the rate that they create value. Eliminate the place where they would be able to practice the language, connect with other cultures, and learn to create more value. Keep them segregated from commercial society, dependent, and without purpose.
- Ban guns
- Take away citizens means of protecting themselves. Make them dependent on the government for security so that there is no immediate risk to attempting immoral behavior (like sexual assault).
- Create welfare and support programs that give tax money to refugees.
- Incentivize non-work and create resentment among taxpayers.
The only mainstream support for immigration comes from people who support need-based immigration, which prevents immigration of skilled workers, while also supporting policies that make it almost impossible for immigrants from poor countries to become productive members of society.
Immigration is a question of property rights, not needs. If a landlord wants to rent someone an apartment and a business wants to hire someone, people on the other side of the continent have no legitimate right to use violence to stop it depending on where that person was born.
Beyond that, humans are the most valuable resource that exists. We should welcome people who can become valuable contributors in our society, not because it is a charitable thing to do, but because it makes us richer. We should selfishly want people to come work where we are.
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