The conservative case for a market-based immigration system

Is population growth a bad thing? Much of the Left believes it is, and some of their unlikely allies on the Right have started to agree. The Left tends to see people as polluters, which makes every additional birth a burden on the planet. Some self-styled conservatives reach the same destination by a different road: More people means fewer jobs to go around, but only when those people are born abroad.

Both sides are selling the same product: degrowth. And if the Right seeks to grow economic opportunities for Americans, it must reject zero-sum thinking and embrace markets as the conservative immigration policy.