IncoherentEntity

That’s it. That’s the epitome of the political statistician’s joke.

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

Before the professor responds, I'd like to roughly anticipate part of his reply by quoting the following paragraph from his recent article regarding on the book.

To see the massive missed opportunity of which I speak, consider the migration of a low-skilled Haitian from Port-au-Prince to Miami. In Haiti, he would earn about $1,000 per year. In Miami, he could easily earn $25,000 per year. How is such upward mobility possible? Simply put: Human beings are much more productive in Florida than in Haiti — thanks to better government policies, better management, better technology, and much more. The main reason Haitians suffer in poverty is not because they are from Haiti but because they are in Haiti. If you were stuck in Haiti, you, too, would probably be destitute. [emphasis mine]

I'm particularly interested in Mr. Caplan's answer to your final question. I know his surname is a derivation of "Cohen" through German, and given the tense situation in Israel and the threat it faces from its immediate neighbors, as well the fact that voting patterns between the Arab minority and most of the Jewish majority are probably more ethnically polarized than politics in Mississippi, this response could be of personal importance to him.

here we go

The rich countries and the formerly poor immigrants both improve, of course. Nobody’s proposing the actual mix of countries and their institutions.

theyre not entitled to have a chance as long as people within the borders need help at all

Human beings’ freedom of movement should not be contingent on the economic situation of others.

Also, are you implying something?

how much jewish ancestry do you guys have?

I don’t discount the likelihood that mean population differences between Haitians and Americans overall contributes to the poverty we witness in Haiti, but the professor’s point is that the same people can be so much more productive in a country like the United States.