Life is embedded with conflicting and complicated choices. Very often, the best way to get to where you want to go is to go in the opposite direction. And so it is with the politics of immigration, as noted here.
The interesting thing about this article is that it applies conservative logic to the question of immigration and border security. Conservatives love to argue that government restrictions on guns and the marketplace simply encourage the formation of "black markets." Well, as it turns out, government restrictions on travel have the exact same effect. You can't have an economy without people, any more than you can have one without an environment. A well-regulated but also expansive system for moving people in and out of the United States would make it far easier to monitor those people, and ferret out the trouble-makers.
We have lived now for over two decades in a world in which money moves around it at the speed of light. It's time to stop forcing people to move around it at the speed of sludge.
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