ava on Nostr: There are no 'open borders with Mexico' - what we have is a heavily regulated system ...
There are no 'open borders with Mexico' - what we have is a heavily regulated system with extensive controls and restrictions. This isn't theory - it's basic economics: restrictions create black markets, just as prohibition transformed a legal industry into a criminal enterprise of bootlegging and violence.
America has the world's largest prison population and plenty of criminal enterprises operating coast to coast. These aren't foreign imports - they're largely homegrown under our current system of restrictions and controls.
The current border system's complexity and restrictions create profitable opportunities for criminal enterprises while making legal movement more difficult - the problem isn't too much freedom, it's that overly restrictive systems tend to manufacture the very chaos they aim to prevent.
America has the world's largest prison population and plenty of criminal enterprises operating coast to coast. These aren't foreign imports - they're largely homegrown under our current system of restrictions and controls.
The current border system's complexity and restrictions create profitable opportunities for criminal enterprises while making legal movement more difficult - the problem isn't too much freedom, it's that overly restrictive systems tend to manufacture the very chaos they aim to prevent.