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Immigration is without question a material issue, but not because of its impact on labor markets. It is a material issue because of the impact that immigration restriction has on the labor movement — as a source of division, and the means through which a critical minority of today’s workers are deprived of basic political rights.
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The abolition of borders is a basic socialist principle, but the Left has shied from claiming it as a modern policy for strategic reasons — the fear that large increases in migration flow will provoke a nativist backlash. While it might have worked in previous eras to support immigrant rights whil...