Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Unintended Consequences


Below are some interesting thoughts about immigration from Peter Coy at Bloomberg Businessweek.
The tragedy is that walls hurt those who obey the law more than terrorists, who usually find a way to go over, under, or around them. What’s worse, isolating entire communities and nations because potential terrorists live among them often backfires, engendering more of the hatred that it’s meant to protect against. That’s what makes terrorism so diabolical: Like an autoimmune disease, it provokes civilized societies to behave in self-defeating ways.
Read the rest of the article here.



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