THS Free Immigration

It goes something like this: Imagine you are at a table with a group of people creating an entirely new society, but there is a catch, afterwards you would be randomly placed into that society. You would not know your your class position or social status, nor would you know your fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, your intelligence, strength, and the like. You would have no idea what your race, gender, sexual orientation, or home country would be. So what kind of society would you create? I would hope you would create one with open boarders. One where, even if you where born into a nation with poor social services, you could easily obtain an education by moving countries. Remember, we already see this happening within countries. The movement within nations allows say, a young teen from a small town attend university at the best schools in their country. So lets dive into my oppositions first to points. Firstly, the topic of "ghettos" was brought up. Though for the sake of not offending anyone or seeming borderline racist, I will refer to these areas as geographical clusters. So, I would argue that these cluster happen in order to preserve culture. I support the idea that places like China Town and Little Italy actually contribute to multiculturalism within society and are a generally positive thing. It helps creat peace and friendship amoung different ethnicities. Moreover, these culture clusters do not contribute to an increase in crime rates. Tim Wadsworth, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado studied the effects of immigration on American cities and concluded that: the cities that experience the greatest growth in immigration were the same one that were experiencing the greatest declines in violent crime. Plus, immigrants aren't moving countries in order to live poorer lives. They move to developed countries in seak of education and employment opurtunities, which rich nations can gladly give them. The idea is simple: more people in a country means more people buying products, which means more people needed to create and supply goods and services. Jobs are created. I'd like to also point out that in order to stabilize the population at its current level, Japan would need to increase the immigrant population from about two million to roughly 17 million immigrants by 2050. Put differently, whereas it now admits in the order of 50,000 immigrants a year, it would need to admit something like 650,000 a year instead. Under the current system, which boasts quotas, this just isn't possible. Despite your assertion that they won't be able to pay income taxes, etc, I'd like to point out that immigrants are not lazy, uneducated leeches on society, they are people. Even if they are not the upper classmen of the world, blue collar workers are the back bone of society! Lastly, I'd just like to say that, even the poorest of the poor among first world streets are living emensely better than the poor in third world nations. Even, if immigrants can't obtain a job, they will still do better than they did before. Now, cons second point. I'm afraid you quite misunderstand how permanent resident status works. Resisdents can easily obtain citizenship, and do under our current system. Which means, being able to achieve all the benefits that follow, including voting. The reason I decided to include this in my model is because it means that it will be easier for migrants to move back home, transferring their aquired money, sills, and technology along with them. Thus, improving conditions in the countries being moved from. Finally, my last point: 3) COMPARING FREE IMMIGRATION TO THE FREE MARKET "Doing well is the result of doing good," In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson was talking about capitalism. This is the idea that success stems from continuous progression due to competition in the free market. We can compare these ideologies to what a world that supports free immigration would look like. If a countries wishes to do well, they must intern do good for their people -in the world of free immigration if you are not happy with the state of your nation you have the freedom to migrate elsewhere -if it is required of a government to please its people in order to keep up the population and in turn have a prosperous society -All governments will be pressured to create more educational and employment opportunities, political stability, a more prosperous economy, and healthier living conditions for their citizens. -this is beneficial for individuals and collective Individual Citizens: -people have a right to sovereignty and a government has a responsibility to uphold it -this is not how a lot of societies work today as the people are either denied power or they are not aware of the power they posses -by creating competition between countries for citizens, the people are back in control -people now have the choice to live under a government that will allow them to prosper but also have the power to change and challenge governments to improve living condition -With the implementation of this resolution, you are supporting governments by not only ballots, but with presence in the country and contribution to its well being -this will improve human rights, social services and societies functionality -the individual gets to choose the legal regime they want to live under, the basic principles and values they live by, the amount and type of rights that they possess and they can choose this by moving to country that provides this -what we foresee is people continuously choosing better and more equal human rights so intern governments will start actively striving to create these better rights for its residents so that it can have a population to govern -this type of pressure will benefit the collective Global Market: -in society we strive for innovations and progress -this is limited when governments are not required to please their people (this applies the autocracies and dictatorships) -and as it is today in governments are somewhat responsible to their people but if the people are not pleased the most dramatic consequences is rebellion and protests -we believe this will eliminate the need for rebellion and in turn the consequences will be people leaving the countries -governments will now be required to strive for innovation progress and support from its citizens -this will give them the motivation to become better and this will increase prosperity for the governments -once all the governments in the world competing to innovate we see the world prospering -we take a look at the economy where the competition for consumers promotes entrepreneurism and innovation for better products (very similarly this is how the world would work) -we as consumers have driven products to become eco-friendly and this can also happen on a bigger scale by putting pressure on the governments to be more environmentally friendly -this is just one example of societal progress that is foreseeable with this resolution -free immigration benefits the individual and the collective world by creating such competition for a better society. I have proved today that the vast amount of progressive benefits that the free market provides for our economy can be mirrored in the world of free immigration, I demonstrated the economical benefits as well as the need for equal opportunity. I invite the voters to agree that free immigration benefits all.