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Immigration, Enforcement, and Catholics, by James Kalb – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Immigrants us flags. (Image: Frank Kastle / Unsplash.com)

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, March 2, 2026

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI Books, 2008), Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church (Angelico Press, 2023).

 

We can only do what is possible. We cannot solve global poverty, war, and tyranny by moving the poor and oppressed to rich and peaceful countries.

Effectively, open borders are a bad idea. That’s true whether they result from explicit policy or from failure to enforce the law effectively.

The population of the world outside the United States is about 8 billion. Of that number, it appears that about a billion and a quarter would like to emigrate from their home countries, with around 230 million picking the United States as their top destination. A great many more would no doubt accept the United States as a second, third, or fourth choice.

It’s not clear what people would actually do if anyone with a ticket could hop on a plane and move here. Puerto Ricans have been able to do that as long as there have been plane tickets, and two-thirds of them now live on the mainland. It seems that open or largely open borders would bring far more immigrants here than the 50 million or so now present. …

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