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Should the U.S. Have Free Immigration?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Impact of Immigration on the Low-Skilled Labor Market

The U.S. labor market has worked out in a regime where immigration might be 10 or 20 or 40 million people a year in the low-skilled category from a regime where it's been one or two or three million that is a very very different situation. How would we feel about accepting tens and even hundreds of millions of immigrants who are intolerant of religions other than their own? The success we've had with immigration so far is with limited immigration where we can assimilate those people We can discuss what a reasonable number of immigrants should be maybe it should be increased but unlimited that's a step too far, he says.

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