[sdenton4]

At risk of godwinning, by this logic the US should never have taken in all those Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany... Or any of the many, many incredible Iranians I've known and worked with in my life. Often the best people are fleeing intolerable conditions.

btw, the Open Borders graphic novel is fantastic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/openborders/

[tathougies]

Oh no, we can take mexicans in of course, we just should't have open borders. I would hope that, when the US took in Jewish scientists, there was a mechanism in place to make sure they didn't take nazis disguised as jewish scientists.

[xyzzyz]

We took Nazi scientists too, and they didn’t have to disguise themselves. They built our rockets and put us in space.

[catalogia]

One could surmise that provisions for refugees would be an exception case augmenting a more general border policy. As is the case in the EU, I believe?

[AlexandrB]

The inconvenient truth is that many illegal immigrants from South America are refugees from various US-backed coups, dictatorships, and war-on-drugs fuelled drug cartels. Unfortunately they can't always claim refugee status on these grounds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...