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by staticman2 1857 days ago
A country would turn into "religious terrorism refugee land" and people would murder nonbelievers and then immigrate there.

Russia would assassinate people and the assassins would have safe travel home.

Billionnaires would murder their divorcing spouses then flee to billionnaire refugee land with their money.

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> Russia would assassinate people and the assassins would have safe travel home.

They already largely do. Also, in many countries that have experienced illiberal trends recently, they can still get you emigrated abroad and they still have power over you abroad.

As the journalist Sarah Kendzior says “This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

To win something like this, it is better that large amounts of people who can stay be able to as long as feasibly possible. Once people leave en masse (sometimes there is no choice) the situation only gets uglier. But you do absolutely have to know when to leave.

All of these three already happened
You are missing the point that none of these happened without the criminal taking the risk that they would be caught before escaping the country where the crime occured.

The proposal is to make the law change so these are risk-free crimes. The law would not be a deterent to commiting crimes.

The fun thing about this proposal is when people say they want "countries to compete" they are often pushing for a market solution for the rich to get richer. But in this case it would hurt rich and poor alike. Jeff Bezos has little to gain from american law to be optional for americans and anyone to be able to murder him and opt out of the law by leaving the country.