"Why is it that a guy who happened to be born in the U.S. can do a certain job and get paid more than 300x that of a guy born in Haiti who’s doing the exact same job, working equally hard, equally industrious. Why shouldn’t the Haitian have the opportunity to move to the U.S. and receive the higher wage? We don’t allow discrimination based on the choice-less facts of race or gender — why do we on place of birth? He went on to debunk various myths: such as the idea that increased legal or illegal immigration depress U.S. worker wages or that the so-called “brain drain” hurts the countries exporting their people to richer places. In one jaw-dropping slide he showed a chart showing unemployment in the U.S. being inversely correlated with total immigration."