Obama says Amnesty will give the illegals my health insurance

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Kasz216 said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
I don't see how anyone who supports free markets can be against open immigration

Your kidding right?

I mean... most african countries can tell you why it's a bad idea.

People go to the "lands of oppurtunity" and end up finding there isn't enough prosperity to go around and actually end up in worse situations then they had back home.

First off the problems of African countries have nothing to do with voluntary immigration, either into or out of Africa, colonization, slavery forced labor, laying out of borders without regard for ethnic differences are the cause of problems there, in fact its been economically shown that the aftereffects of the slave trade is a huge factor in the current economic and political instability.

Your land of prosperity argument is flawed, first off open immigration hasn't existed since before WW1, and most of those who immigrated in those periods prior to WW1 did find greater opportunity not only for themselves but their children and grandchildren.  Most of the problems that arise from immigration are actually ethnic/racial, and not economic.