Sunday, April 28, 2013

Rusty Statue of Liberty


Should we limit immigration? With the economic downturn it doesn’t seem logical to still work on reuniting families or increasing diversity. Can we perhaps take a break while the country recovers?

As I examine my current bias right now, I wonder if it easy for me to agree on limited immigration just because I myself is in the country right now. I do believe on the idea of carrying capacity of all systems and Malthusian catastrophe. The United States can be a generous nation that welcomes that tired and weary of the world but there has to be some limit for this generosity. In my ever so practical mind, the effort to help a few thousands can eventually jeopardize the welfare of the rest if the system collapses.

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

                                                                    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Does this still apply?



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