{"id":200,"date":"2008-03-13T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-03-13T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:21:41","slug":"will-the-fence-wind-around-up-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/will-the-fence-wind-around-up-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Fence wind around up the coast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/ap_news\/California\/CA_Sea_Smuggling_331657C.shtml\">plus $4,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That, plus the mindless persecution of native Americans from England, France, Germany, etc. who don&#8217;t think we have any room for more.  Plus the plans of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/12054520\/the_10_worst_congressmen\/6\">idiot politicians<\/a> who have no idea what they&#8217;re up against in trying to stem this tide, and are willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svherald.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/03\/news\/doc47cb9f7c14db5486886624.txt\">betray the liberties<\/a> of those who live here legally to try to stop those that don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>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?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/119913.html\">At all?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revealed-preference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}