{"id":3550,"date":"2017-02-12T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2017-02-12T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:32:19","slug":"the-seen-and-the-unseen-episode-4-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-seen-and-the-unseen-episode-4-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seen and the Unseen Episode 4: Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/2\/7\/episode-4-immigration\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen -- Immigration\">the fourth episode<\/a> of my weekly podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen\">The Seen and the Unseen<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5058522\/height\/90\/width\/400\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The history of humanity is the story of <a href=\"\/the-expanding-circle\/\" title=\"The Expanding Circle -- Amit Varma\">an Expanding Circle<\/a>: one in which the world gradually gets more and more globalised, and the movement of goods and labour becomes more and more free. But recent years have seen <a href=\"\/why-both-modi-and-trump-are-textbook-populists\/\" title=\"Why Both Trump and Modi are Textbook Populists -- Amit Varma\">the rise of populists<\/a> who, among their many follies, are suspicious of immigration. America, a land built by immigrants, just elected a demagogue who prefers walls to bridges.<\/p>\n<p>In Episode 4 of The Seen and the Unseen, Amit Varma discusses Immigration with Shikha Dalmia. Are the demagogues right about immigration being a bad thing? Do immigrants take jobs away from locals? Are they a strain on resources? Should we build yuge walls? <\/p>\n<p><b>Also read<\/b>: Dalmia&#8217;s piece for Reason, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.org\/files\/immigration_policy_opening_american_borders.pdf\" title=\"An Argument For Opening America&#8217;s Borders -- Shikha Dalmia\">&#8216;An Argument For Opening America&#8217;s Borders&#8217;<\/a> (pdf link).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/2\/7\/episode-4-immigration\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen -- Immigration\">the fourth episode<\/a> of my weekly podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen\">The Seen and the Unseen<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The history of humanity is the story of <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-expanding-circle\/\" title=\"The Expanding Circle -- Amit Varma\">an Expanding Circle<\/a>: one in which the world gradually gets more and more globalised, and the movement of goods and labour becomes more and more free. But recent years have seen <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/why-both-modi-and-trump-are-textbook-populists\/\" title=\"Why Both Trump and Modi are Textbook Populists -- Amit Varma\">the rise of populists<\/a> who, among their many follies, are suspicious of immigration. America, a land built by immigrants, just elected a demagogue who prefers walls to bridges.<\/p>\n<p>In Episode 4 of The Seen and the Unseen, Amit Varma discusses Immigration with Shikha Dalmia. Are the demagogues right about immigration being a bad thing? Do immigrants take jobs away from locals? Are they a strain on resources? Should we build yuge walls? <\/p>\n<p><b>Also read<\/b>: Dalmia&#8217;s piece for Reason, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.org\/files\/immigration_policy_opening_american_borders.pdf\" title=\"An Argument For Opening America&#8217;s Borders -- Shikha Dalmia\">&#8216;An Argument For Opening America&#8217;s Borders&#8217;<\/a> (pdf link).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,4,21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Seen and the Unseen Episode 4: Immigration - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-seen-and-the-unseen-episode-4-immigration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Seen and the Unseen Episode 4: Immigration - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the fourth episode of my weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen. 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