Enopoletus

Several questions:

In your book, you frequently extrapolate (e.g., on crime, politics) from current immigrants to the U.S., despite that this immigrant mix of mildly selected Hispanics and highly selected Asians is extremely unrepresentative of the mix of unselected Blacks, South Asians, Latinos, and Chinese that would come to the U.S. under open borders. What is your justification for this?

In your book, you estimate open borders would double world GDP. The rise of China only just over doubled China's GDP in the first decade of the 21st century, and even this rise resulted in an explosion of commodities prices. What is the best way for developed country natives to be insulated from this rise in commodities prices under open borders?

In your book, you estimate open borders would double GDP. Developed countries currently constitute about 40% of world GDP. Thus, doubling world GDP would require at least a quadrupling of the population of the developed countries, with this skyrocketing population being skewed towards the United States. Does this massive population growth pose any substantial difficulties for your argument (on the basis of current American trends) immigrants will rapidly assimilate into developed country society?

Last, and most importantly, do you support the Palestinian right of return to their ancestral homelands?

Isn't that in line with his argument?

Yes, of course. I'm assuming Caplan is correct on this. My question was about higher commodity prices and how to alleviate their impact on natives. If a mere doubling of China's GDP caused a commodity price explosion, just imagine what kind of commodity price explosion would result from a doubling of world GDP.