The Case for Open Borders (The New Yorker, February 20, 2020): Article.

TOPIC:

Resolved: Justice requires open borders for human migration.
Additional Research (Page-02): Click Here.

BACKGROUND:

[VIDEO] Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere (Intelligence Squared, August 21, 2013 [105 min])
Note: These are TOP experts in their fields, debating the same resolution as you.

PRO SIDE:

• Allowing people to move as freely as goods and capital would benefit the world’s economy, by some accounts, doubling the global GDP and bringing an end to poverty.
• Freedom of movement, as well as equal access to opportunity, is a basic human right. Open borders would end the arbitrary discrimination against people based on their place of birth, allowing those trapped in third-world poverty to access first-world opportunity.
• Emigrants transfer knowledge and skills back to their developing countries and, via remittances, help to alleviate poverty, develop markets, and increase trade.
• The free movement of people strengthens global networks that spur innovation, maximize human potential, and reduce international conflicts.

CON SIDE:

• Developing countries would not only suffer a brain drain, but tenuous economic development and delayed political and social reform.
• Remittances are only a band aid for poverty and do not develop economic infrastructure.
• Immigrants are a net fiscal burden, overwhelming an already strained economy and draining public resources like schools, hospital care, and welfare benefits.
• Opening our borders would create job competition for native workers, suppressing wages and putting the least-skilled Americans out of work.
• The free movement of people could threaten the cultural identities of both sending and receiving countries.

REQUIRED RESEARCH (VIDEOS): 

[AUDIO] Advantages and Disadvantages of Open Borders,
Environmental Conscience, August 15, 2020 [14 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxgG62ddXk

[VIDEO] Exploring the economic argument for a return to open US borders,
PBS Newshour, June 16, 2021 [9 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRpMyqzW6w

[VIDEO] Keep the world\’s poor out or hurt ordinary Americans?,
Intelligence Squared, October 31, 2013 [3 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UpKRUcyO0I
\”Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere\” (Full Debate, 105 min): Click Here.

REQUIRED RESEARCH (ARTICLES):

Why the Children of Immigrants Are the Ones Getting Ahead in America,
TIME Magazine, June 1, 2022
https://time.com/6182715/immigrants-children-us-mobility/
Note: Abramitzky is a Professor of Economics and the Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Stanford University. Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves at the Director of Industrial Relations Section. Their new book is Streets of Gold: America\’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success.

ORDER FROM CHAOS: Europe tussles over migration politics,
Jessica Brandt and Ted Reinert, Brookings Institution, June 26, 2018
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/06/26/europe-tussles-over-migration-politics/
Note: Jessica Brandt, is Policy Director – Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative Fellow – Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, and Ted Reinert, is Publications Editor – Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution.

Biden’s Border Policy Is Not “Open Borders”,
CATO Institute, September 23, 2021
https://www.cato.org/blog/bidens-border-policy-not-open-borders

Biden’s Open-Border Policies Guaranteed Tragedy and Loss of Life,
Tom Homan, Heritage Foundation, July 5, 2022
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/bidens-open-border-policies-guaranteed-tragedy-and-loss-life
Note: Visiting Fellow, Border Security and Immigration Center, Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

OPTIONAL RESEARCH (PRO-CON):

Open Borders: Definition, Pros and Cons,
Robert Longley, Thought Company, December 1, 2022
https://www.thoughtco.com/open-borders-4684612
Note: Robert Longley is a U.S. government and history expert with over 30 years of experience in municipal government and urban planning.

Pros and Cons of Open Borders,
Environmental Conscience, August 2020
https://environmental-conscience.com/open-borders-pros-cons/

17 Biggest Pros and Cons of Open Borders Immigration,
Editor in Chief, ConnectUS, November 25, 2019
https://connectusfund.org/17-biggest-pros-and-cons-of-open-borders-immigration

OPTIONAL RESEARCH (ARTICLES & VIDEOS):

[VIDEO] Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere,
Intelligence Squared, August 21, 2013 [105 min]
https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/let-anyone-take-job-anywhere/#/
Note: These are TOP experts in their fields, debating the same resolution as you.

[VIDEO] Open Borders, For or Against? A Debate with Mark Krikorian and Bryan Caplan,
Dartmouth University, October 20, 2022 [90 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtsoS5-6AY
Note: Mark Krikorian (Center for Immigration Studies) will exchange views with Bryan Caplan (Economics, George Mason University)… both are top experts and Dartmouth is an ivy league source.  😉

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