It looks like Democrats and other leftists now have a reason to be against immigration: immigration apparently harms the environment, since poor people come to America in the hopes of increased consumption and increased consumption necessarily, in their view, leads to environmental damage. Hence, they now have another environmentalist reason to prevent poor people from bettering their lives. See here and here.
Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Liberal political philosopher and an adjunct instructor for Buena Vista University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Edgewood, KY with his wife and two children.
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