Migrants from Other States Are "Stealing Our Jobs"

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Migrants from Other States Are "Stealing Our Jobs"

21 HOURS AGO Ryan McMaken

As Ludwig von Mises noted, unrestrained immigration is not without its downside. This is due to the fact that linguistic and cultural majorities have a habit of using the political system to exploit the linguistic and cultural minorities. As these majorities change due to migration, this can lead to political conflict. For Mises, the answer to this was more fluidity in borders, and the use of secession and decentralization as tools in minimizing the power held by majority groups over minority groups.

Note, however, that these are political issues, and are artifacts of the political system — not the economic system. 

Conspicuously absent from Mises's work are economic arguments against migration. They're absent because there aren't any good economic arguments against migration. Salerno sums up Mises's position: