Useful expert comments Cliches and uninformed statements are easy to dismiss as senseless prescriptions from political outcasts and fringe ideologues.
Libertarians generally favor open immigration as long as the immigrants are self-supporting.
Many analysts and observers have made a strong case for immigration, in that immigrants contribute to social and economic progress of the nation that admits them. It is only after they learn bad study habits from American children that their grades begin to go down. From Associated Press, reported in the Houston Chronicle, Feb. 23, 1994. Columnist Juan R. Palomo in the Houston Post, Feb. 28, 1994. Dr. Richard Vedder, an economics professor at Ohio University, along with Lowell Gallaway and Stephen Moore, looked at historical and contemporary evidence in a study for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.