>>9826611>>9826611There are two main problems with his positions, which is that they tend to be myopic, and only focused on the nurture side, when we know nature accounts for 50% of it.
This doesn't mean that for example even a low IQ illegal can't be a massive economic benefit to a country, even if fiscally the effects are mixed, but his open borders policy has serious problems with a long term drop in the IQ of a nation.
One of Borjas's students had his PhD thesis on how Mexican immigrants simply do not converge to the US white mean, even after 1, 2, 3 generations, they're converging to their genetic potential, and while this is still fine as long as they aren't criminals since income isn't even that correlated with income (it's at .4 by Jensen) you're going to have serious problems if the dumb masses start overwhelming the smart fraction that keeps the institutions of a country running free of corruption, even if they can't vote their children will, and the political landscape of the country will be shittier tomorrow than it is today, it happened in California, which is getting richer and richer on the backs of immigrants (as standard theory tells us) but is getting shittier and shittier politically since the amnesty, it's a one party state, a dysfunctional state that cannot be brought to answer by a people too stupid do demmand even basic accountability, which he refuses to recognize.