California Town Wants to Send Immigrants Back, But WSJ’s Jason Riley Makes the Case to Let Them In

Residents of Murrieta, California filled a high school gym on
Wednesday night to protest the arrival of 140 immigrants from Texas
facilities. On Tuesday protestors blocked a bus filled with
immigrants from entering a Border Patrol facility in Murrieta
(approx. 81 miles southeast of Los Angeles)—forcing officials to
re-route the detainees to Chula Vista where some were hospitalized
for scabies and fever. 

The current crisis on the border (an
estimated 100,000 children and young adults are expected to enter
the country this year) illustrates the broken immigration
system in our country. While the Obama administration and Congress
have failed thus far to tackle any serious immigration reform, the
Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley says we should
consider an open borders approach to dealing with
immigration. 

The WSJ columnist sat down with Nick Gillespie in 2008
to dispel some of the myths of immigration that he outlines in his
book, “Let
Them In: The Case for Open Borders.” Original air date was
August 4, 2008 and the original writeup is below. 

The title of Jason L. Riley’s new book helps explain why it has
proven so controversial: Let Them In: The Case for Open
Borders.

Let Them In is as exhaustively researched as it is eminently
readable, Riley, a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial
board runs through all the anti-immigration arguments at play in
today’s heated political world—and finds them wanting.

Riley sat down earlier this summer with reason.tv’s Nick
Gillespie to discuss the leading myths about the causes and effects
of immigration.