Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“In a recent post, co-blogger David Bernstein discusses the ‘social trust’ rationale for immigration restrictions: the idea that the increased ethnic and cultural diversity caused by immigration reduces social trust, which in turn leads to various bad outcomes. This is one of the more sophisticated justifications for immigration restrictions. But it deserves to be rejected, nonetheless.” (07/22/25)