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An Utterly Fantastic Book on Immigration

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I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, this new book is the best book on the issue of immigration I have ever read. It is entitled The Case for Open Borders. The author is John Washington, who has written for The Atlantic, Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. Ever since FFF’s inception in 1989, I have been emphasizing one important point: There is one — and only one — solution to America’s perpetual immigration crisis and morass. That solution is open borders — genuine open borders — not the immigration police state that statists (as well as some libertarians) call “open borders.” Genuine open borders entails the elimination of the Border Patrol, ICE, the immigration police state, and all restrictions on the free movements of goods, services, and people across borders.

Warped Terminology on Open Borders

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Seeing the large number of immigrants illegally entering the United States, proponents of immigration controls decry what they label the “open border” between the United States and Mexico. I live in Virginia. I sometimes enter Maryland by crossing the bridge that spans the Potomac River, which forms part of the border between the two states. There is no border-control station at which Maryland officials require me to stop and be subjected to questions and have my vehicle searched. There are also no border patrol agents patrolling the border to ensure that no one is entering Maryland illegally. That’s what “open borders” means. No border checkpoints. No border guards. No stopping vehicles to examine people’s papers or search their vehicles. Simply unrestricted movements of people across a border. Having lived more than 3 decades in a bordertown along the Texas-Mexican border, I can attest that that is definitely not the situation when one crosses the border from Mexico to ...

America’s Forever Immigration Morass

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All my life I have witnessed America’s ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration morass, along with the endless laments, anguish, anxiety, and depression among American statists that have accompanied it. All of this mental anguish has caused immigration-control advocates for the last several decades to ceaselessly cry out for Congress to enact “comprehensive immigration reform” designed to finally — finally! — ...

You’re Not Allowed to Say That NATO Caused the War, Unless You Are NATO’s Secretary General

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There are two competing narratives about the origins of the Ukraine War. According to one narrative, Vladimir Putin is a Hitler-like aggressor. He wants to reestablish the Soviet empire by swallowing Ukraine and threatening the Baltic countries, Poland, and the nations further west. This narrative was created by Washington and Brussels. It has been repeated by European leaders and echoed ...