NR Daily: Immigration Is Mainly about Values, Not Economics

Here's a story. Long before immigration from Mexico was an issue in America, immigration from America was an issue in Mexico. The question in the 1820s was over Mexico's very sparsely populated northeastern borderlands. It was dangerous to leave the brushy territory undeveloped, since there was no effective way of defending the vast frontier from Native Americans and hostile foreign powers without a substantial native population. Meanwhile, the eastern states of America were filling up: Land prices were rising and speculators and entrepreneurs were heading west by the thousands ...

August 11 2017

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