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While that notion, like Marx-Engels' ideas for taking from those who have the ability and giving to those who need, may seem great on paper, successfully implementing such policies in the real world is starkly different.
According to Census Bureau statistics, some 1.3 million foreign-born individuals legally immigrated to the United States in 2014. That figure doesn't include the nearly one million immigrants that enter the country illegally each year. Those who support open border immigration have said that we need to take in even more people.
But according to journalist Roy Beck, taking in one million people per year makes almost no difference in the grand scheme of things because for every million we bring into the United States, another 80 million people yearly are born into countries with extreme levels of poverty, violence or war. According to Beck, even opening our borders to five million more people per year would do nothing to stem the the real problems.
In what is one of the most viewed immigration policy videos on the internet from Numbers USA, Beck ingeniously utilizes gumballs to demonstrate why open borders simply will not work. As well, he provides a seemingly novel solution that has for decades fallen on deaf ears:
We never get ahead of what's happening in these countries... Don't you see? Immigration can never be an effective or significant way to deal with the suffering people of the world... they have to be helped where they live...
99.9% of them will never be able to immigrate to a rich country... there is no hope for that... they have to bloom where they're planted... the only place that 99.9% of these people can be helped is where they live... let's help them there.
Comment: An interesting video of poverty by the numbers and an eye-opener to immigration statistics. As far as helping destitute populations where they are, perhaps the US should clean up its act before knocking on foreign doors and volunteering its 'services.'