The nativist backlash on immigration is back

“The results of the recent special election in California’s 48th Congressional District are a sober wakeup call to economic conservatives who believe in the free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Self-appointed, vigilante immigration restrictionist Jim Gilchrist received a sizeable 14.4 percent of the vote for Congress on a single-issue, immigrant-bashing platform. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, who endorsed Gilchrist, is trying, with some success, to raise immigrant-bashing to a top-tier issue in the 2008 elections.

Anti-immigration sentiment is one symptom of a larger neo-Mercantilist disease that is also threatening the globalization of trade and capital flows. Unless true free-market conservatives tame these emotional arguments with the force of logic, much of the economic progress of the past century could be reversed.”

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