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Is Joshua really arguing for a "borderless world" or is that dismissive or exaggerated interpretation of his position. In one very real sense, any free market person, must also endorse the free movements of peoples. As peoples really are a labor market. You can't argue for free trade and ...

While there is much to perhaps wish were different (think Japanese internment, Chinese Exclusion, etc etc), on the whole the USA immigration policy has been, and is, quite liberal. And this I think has very substantively benefitted the USA economically and socially and technologically. This doesn't ...

You make too much of the effects of immigration or non-immigration, in the case of Europe. Cheap labor is important in the capitalist system but certainly not the driver. That, I think would be capital (private property). It is not only about labor...not really at all. It is about demand. I think i...

More of a utopia than dystopia. The point is, that geo-political states are intuitively clearly not aligned with God's Kingdom. We shouldn't align with their ends either. The current status of the global empire is that they are very busy promoting the mass movement of peoples all over the place. If...

You make too much of the effects of immigration or non-immigration, in the case of Europe. Cheap labor is important in the capitalist system but certainly not the driver. That, I think would be capital (private property). It is not only about labor...not really at all. It is about demand. I think i...

In one very real sense, any free market person, must also endorse the free movements of peoples. As peoples really are a labor market. You can't argue for free trade and for restricted immigration. This is precisely why NAFTA created the immigration boom in the 90s. A free economy, necessarily entai...

People don't "take jobs" they create them. With more people comes more demand for, well, everything. That doesn't jive with actual reality. What actually happens is a flood of migrants means a lot more drain on social services, far more than the migrants can afford to pay in. If having mo...

This opens another can of worms in conservative Anabaptist settings. Why aren't there more full time, financially supported pastors in our circles? Especially in larger churches? We don't hesitate to fully support missionary pastors in foreign settings. Yet domestically, we expect them to make thei...

People don't "take jobs" they create them. With more people comes more demand for, well, everything.

I would think the golden rule would be a good place to start when we considered people who are moving, that is migrating. How would I want to be treated if I were in their shoes?

There aren’t enough resources in America for everyone to have long term care “insurance”. Basically, it’s just impossible to everyone to have small families yet expect stellar care for the last 10 years of their life. The entire world would have to be reconstructed into a giant nursing home. Once t...