What it takes to immigrate into the USA

Wow, this immigration-to-the-USA diagram from the October issue of Reason is very interesting, and well drawn. Why exactly do we draw lines around the globe to limit how people can live and be governed, anyway? Having your freedom limited by your birth seems a leftover from feudalism that should be eliminated.

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Heavy-handed immigration laws inhumane and anachronistic. We should consider how we can manage & improve the world for all human beings, not only for people arbitrarily born near us.

I think that makes patriotism bad as well. Contemporary scholar of ethics, Paul Gomberg, makes the obvious comparison between patriotism and racism. You can't put your country & compatriots first unless you put others second. That's clearly prejudice, if not strictly racist, but just as unethical.

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