2025-03-18
7 分钟The Economist Hello, Mike Bird here, co-host of Money Talks,
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In one rich country after another, immigrants are blamed for society's problems.
On March 10th, J.D.
Vance, America's Vice President, said,
Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
warns that, If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.
Complaints about migrants are as old as Jacob's trek into Egypt.
But politicians like Mr Vance and Mr Miller are drawing on a new critique of the Liberal case for immigration.
They make three claims – that immigrants are taking houses from citizens,
that even
if they work they are bankrupting welfare systems and jumping the queue for public services,
and that they are spoiling the culture that made the West prosperous.
It would be a mistake to dismiss these claims as xenophobic guff,
like the stories that migrants in Ohio eat pets.
What makes them powerful is that they are grounded in academic research.
Only by grasping their strengths can liberals reject their excesses,