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Incentives explain outcomes. Milton Friedman observed that you cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state. America’s earlier waves of immigration succeeded so well because, prior to 1914, the country maintained open borders without a welfare system. Immigrants arrived to work, support themselves and their families, and build...

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