Are deportation laws, inherently racist?

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They are inherently nationalistic, but not racist.


As always, discussions around this issue tends to get people confused around migrants and refugees.

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There is an odd assumption that if immigration laws are loosened, like, the entire population will get up and go to a richer country. This is definitely a silly notion - after all there's no borders stopping people leaving, say, Mississippi and we haven't seen a mass flight from there. Same with the Pacific Island states that don't have much/any restriction on migration to the U.S. The vast majority of people quite like where they are (certainly the ones that will be a drag on welfare systems, like the elderly) are quite content, for the most part.

It is very hard though to predict how many people would move if hypothetically the border with the USA is loosened. On the times the EU did it, they and the experts dramatically failed to predict the number of economic migrants. When Poland, the Baltics and Cental Europe were admitted the EU dramatically underestimated the movement; when the Romanians and Bulgarians were fully integrated the EU dramatically underestimated.