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I want to share another quote from the book "The Case for Open Borders." This is from pages 11-12:
Today, where one is born-- on what side of what political line-- disproportionately determines one's income, wealth, and longevity. There is more than twenty-five years' difference in life expectancy between a woman in Somalia and one in Switzerland. There is a decade's difference between a woman living in Honduras and a woman living in New York. There is a 1,000 percent wage gap between workers with practically identical jobs in Haiti and the United States. Who wouldn't want a few extra years, an extra decade or two to live, or decent wages for their hard work? Instead of offering that chance, wealthier states build walls and relegate billions of people to premature death and destitution. Those who have won the so-called birthright lottery and enjoy the immense privileges of wealth, liberty, nutrition, education, and longevity, and who believe they have the right to bar people from those unearned entitlements, should imagine themselves in the position of those who have "lost" the birthright lottery.
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