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   From: libtard@sandennistas.orq   
      
   On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:44:52 -0800, Rudy Canoza    
   wrote:   
      
   >This action brings to an end a period when the US was more closed off to legal   
   >immigration than at any other time in the nation's history.   
   >   
   >ILYA SOMIN | 2.24.2021 11:43 PM   
   >   
   >Earlier today, President Joe Biden repealed Trump's coronavirus immigration   
   >bans, which barred nearly all new immigrants entering for the purpose of   
   seeking   
   >permanent residency, and also severely restricted entry based on many types of   
   >temporary work visas [but see update on the latter, below]. In combination   
   with   
   >Trump's previous large-scale efforts to cut immigration of virtually all   
   types,   
   >the 2020 executive actions had closed the US to immigration to a greater   
   extent   
   >than at any previous time in its history, even during crises such as the world   
   >wars and the Great Depression.   
   >   
   >I criticized the public health and economic rationales for the Trump policy in   
   >this June 2020 Atlantic article. Far from improving the economy and public   
   >health, these types of policies actually make both worse. The harm would have   
   >been much greater had the bans continued indefinitely, as Trump administration   
   >officials  said they intended to do. In the long run, immigration restrictions   
   >stifle economic and scientific innovation of the very type that is essential   
   to   
   >boosting economic growth and generating improvements in health care, such as   
   the   
   >Covid vaccines that are our best hope for ending the pandemic.   
   >   
   >It is possible that Biden's repeal of the Trump policy will be challenged in   
   >court by immigration restrictionists. But any such challenge is highly   
   unlikely   
   >to succeed. If, as the Trump administration contended, these immigration bans   
   >were purely a matter of presidential discretion, then Biden has the power to   
   >repeal them as Trump had to institute them in the first place. If, on the   
   other   
   >hand, the Trump policy was illegal, as I and other critics contended, then   
   Biden   
   >had even more justification for repealing it. Indeed, in that scenario, he   
   had a   
   >legal duty to do so.   
   >   
   >https://reason.com/volokh/2021/02/24/biden-revokes-trumps-coron   
   virus-immigration-bans/   
   >   
   >Excellent.  The bans were stupid and counter-productive.   
      
      
   Rudy the sheep falls for the lies of the left.   
      
      
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