Andrew Hyman Responds on Migration and Invasion

Professor Ilya Somin recently wrote a blog post here titled "Immigration is not "Invasion" responding to an earlier blog post.

Andrew Hyman, one of the advocates of this position whom I criticized, has sent me the following response.

Hyman's response is in the block quote, and is in regular text.

A chaotic or open border makes it impossible to screen out people who really do very urgently need to be screened out.

James Madison's Report of 1800 is in fact highly relevant to that very issue, despite Hyman's suggestion to the contrary.

Madison was arguing in 1800 to constrain both civil and military power of the federal government.

Hyman raises a number of tangential issues to the original meaning of the Constitution.

Most of the disorder at the southern border is in fact the product of policies that make legal migration difficult or impossible for most would-be migrants.

We can largely fix the problem by making legal migration simple and easy.

In addition, the violent crime rate of migrants (including undocumented migrants) is actually lower than that by native-born Americans.