Sad End to the Immigration Issue - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. - Mises Institute

Sad End to the Immigration Issue - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. - Mises Institute: "A standard test of a country's well-being is whether people want in or out. Whether you have an immigration issue or an emigration issue is telling. For example, people wanted out of East Germany and wanted into West Germany. People wanted out of Russia and into Estonia. People once wanted out of China, whereas now they want in."

"Data from Mexico is extremely telling in this regard. There has been a massive plummeting in Mexican immigration to the United States within the last year. A quarter of a million people who would otherwise have come to the United States for work have decided to stay away."

"Time was when shelters just across the border, where people lived until they saw an opportunity for safe passage, were filled and overflowing. Now they are empty. Time was when the border-patrol vans and buses hauled people here and there, whereas now they just drive around on day trips, looking for some sign of life.

To have an "immigration problem" is enormously flattering for a country. For that problem to go away is a dark cloud, a bad omen, a sign that something is going terribly wrong. The absence of an immigration problem can quickly turn into an emigration problem."

"Prosperity is associated with the widest-possible division of labor. This is what leads to innovation too."