"The reason many wealthy business owners support open borders is purely for their own bottom line interest"
-- Bernie Sanders
I could kiss you. You just stumbled upon the great moral virtue of free markets: leveraging people's subjective self-interest to get them to voluntarily, peacefully do good things they'd otherwise have no interest in doing.
Yes, a lot of market actors want open borders for their own self-interest. And a lot of immigrants want to immigrate for their own self-interest. And a free market allows both of those people to get exactly what they want without hurting anybody.
Bernie and other immigration opponents, on the other hand, see that same dynamic and yet want to use the violence of the state to prevent both of them from fulfilling their interests. What gives?
I really think it's nationalism. I do.
Bernie thinks it's the American government's job to protect American workers. And if that means keeping Mexican workers out, then fine. And if it means stealing jobs from Bangladesh, then fine.
The interests of Americans trump the interests of foreigners. Even when it's an interest against a right.