Nov. 19, Dean Stansel and Meg Tuszynski, research fellows at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at SMU’s Cox School of business, for an analysis of the impact on economic policies by immigrants and transplants who move to Texas. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading California migrants are not trying to un-Texas Texas: https://bit.ly/3fcIKUk
For centuries, people have been fleeing governments that limit their freedoms and moving to countries, or to less regulated areas within their own nations, that afford greater freedom. For many years, the U.S. had an open door to those immigrants. That door is no longer quite so open.
One reason is that some immigration opponents believe immigrants will import the bad institutions and policies from their countries of origin. The idea that people fleeing countries with bad public policies will later support those very same policies in their new country seems dubious at best. We believe it’s more likely they will self-select into countries affording more freedoms.
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