More evidence that more immigration freedom _decreases_ demand for government welfare / socialism:
"Prior to the closure of the border in the 1920s, American progressives and other supporters of a large welfare state were near-uniformly supported restricting immigration because they saw it as a political impediment to their goals (and for other less-savory reasons like eugenics).
Even Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and their American communist followers warned that immigrant-induced diversity reduced worker solidarity and that that would slow Marxist efforts to stoke a socialist revolution in the United States or achieve middle-ground policies like the creation of a large welfare state and mass unionization.[1]
Across the developed world today, support for welfare, redistribution, and government provision of public goods is inversely correlated with the share of the population that is foreign-born and diverse. The early Marxists worry was well-founded."
https://www.cato.org/blog/do-immigrants-make-united-states-more-left-wing
"Prior to the closure of the border in the 1920s, American progressives and other supporters of a large welfare state were near-uniformly supported restricting immigration because they saw it as a political impediment to their goals (and for other less-savory reasons like eugenics).
Even Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and their American communist followers warned that immigrant-induced diversity reduced worker solidarity and that that would slow Marxist efforts to stoke a socialist revolution in the United States or achieve middle-ground policies like the creation of a large welfare state and mass unionization.[1]
Across the developed world today, support for welfare, redistribution, and government provision of public goods is inversely correlated with the share of the population that is foreign-born and diverse. The early Marxists worry was well-founded."
https://www.cato.org/blog/do-immigrants-make-united-states-more-left-wing