Food for thought on the immigration debate that I, a liberal, hadn't considered: If there is little-to-no bureaucracy needed for someone to show up and either claim asylum or just live off the books (provided they're not sent back right away), what might be the unintended impact of having elaborate bureaucratic procedures for sending people back to their countries of origin? Might it be create perverse incentives?

https://x.com/danielmarans/status/1904590066355495015

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Creating a narrative shift that the perverse incentives are reversing is more valuable than actually reversing the perverse incentive (or even equalizing it)

No, I think I'm agreeing with you (at least as far as I can tell)

For years, many economic migrants heard how easy it was to enter and apply for asylum, and then get a work permit while the case took its time to resolve. So, they tell people they know that it's easy, and therefore more people come

Now there's a big policy shift, so it's much harder, and also they are telling everyone they know that it's much harder (as well as the feverish news reports about it lately), and it is starting to reverse that perception