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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Problem with Pro-Immigration Arguments
Description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjAt5kXxxBs
Podcast audio:
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid criticize various pro-immigration arguments and discuss how they undermine a proper moral defense of immigration.
Among the topics covered:
How conventional pro-immigration arguments are based on altruism and collectivism;
How altruism leads to the infantilization of refugees and failure to advocate for economic migrants;
How diversity quotas perpetuate racism in the name of fighting it;
How the “economic case” for immigration reduces immigrants to servants;
The false assumption that the interests of Americans and immigrants are inherently at o...