The Costs of Hardline Immigration Policies

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This chapter investigates the repercussions of strict immigration policies, emphasizing the financial and social burdens placed on individuals and communities. Through case studies, it reveals the socio-economic effects and ongoing discussions about the need for immigration reform.

The rich world is experiencing record migrant flows—and the attendant social upheaval. Finding immigration policies that are not economically ruinous is damnably hard. Our three-part series starts to unpack why people are so fed up with the big dating apps (11:10). And the head-spinning history of how break(danc)ing became an Olympic sport (18:44).

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