DISQUS

Bartman, too bad you find the analysis shoddy and irrelevant! On shoddiness: No one ever attempted it before, so if you find it poor I urge you and others to improve on it. On relevance: I'm glad you find it irrelevant, because you must therefore already be convinced -- as few people are -- that migration is a form of economic development. For others who aren't as bright as yourself, the point is relevant: Once one realizes that emigration is a principal route out of poverty for people from many countries, as we demonstrate, it becomes less and less ethical for people who have already escaped poverty to block those movements with coercive force, as we do now.