Tragedy is inevitable if we fear migration rather than celebrate its benefits

By Jonathan Portes

Migrants don’t steal jobs or bring down wages. Rather, they’re more likely to bring dynamism and prosperity

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Some of the 250 Central American migrants arrested by the Mexican authorities on 27 June 2019.

Four years ago, Europeans were shocked by the photograph of the drowned three-year old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi. Now, Americans are similarly horrified by pictures of El Salvadorans Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Angie Valeria, dead on the banks of the Rio Grande. Meanwhile, in the UK we are struggling with what our immigration policy should look like after Brexit, with Boris Johnson trying to have his cake and eat it with the promise of an “Australian-style points system”.

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