Will the Fence wind around up the coast?
Posted by Marc Hodak on March 13, 2008 under Revealed preference | 
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This entry begins to answer a very relevant, but rarely asked question in the debate on immigration: how much is immigration worth to relatively unskilled immigrants? In other words, if you were relatively poor living outside of the U.S., how much would it be worth to become one of the poor inside the U.S.? The answer appears to be a small but significant risk to your life plus $4,000.
That, plus the mindless persecution of native Americans from England, France, Germany, etc. who don’t think we have any room for more. Plus the plans of idiot politicians who have no idea what they’re up against in trying to stem this tide, and are willing to betray the liberties of those who live here legally to try to stop those that don’t.
Now, if poor people are willing to pay thousands of dollars to get across our border illegally, how much can we increase the cost per person with all the measures that the most outrageous wall-builders are planning to implement? Will that increase their costs significantly? At all?
Anonymous said,
“Will the Fence wind around up the coast?”
Personally I think it makes more sense to use Coast Guard patrol boats to intercept the illegals, repatriate them to their homelands, and then let the Coast Guard use the empty boats for target practice.
But maybe I misunderstand the question.
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