Immigration

The Case for Open Immigration

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 10, 2016

Immigration controls are nothing but a system of socialist central planning. No wonder we have had a decades-long immigration crisis. The libertarian concept of open immigration encompasses such basic tenets of libertarianism as liberty of contract and freedom of association. The Future of Freedom Foundation presents the panel "The Case for Open Immigration" with Jacob ...

Immigration Controls Are Socialist

by Jake Desyllas July 1, 2016

In the classical-liberal age of 19th-century Europe, there were no immigration controls. Here is how Gustav Stolper — a German economist, classical liberal, and an immigrant — described the world he had known: This economic and social system of Europe was predicated on a few axiomatic principles. These principles were considered safe and unshakable…. They were freedom of ...

Bionic Mosquito’s Bite Misses the Mark

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2016

In my article “Bionic Mosquito Has It Wrong on Immigration,” I pointed out that when it comes to immigration enforcement measures that accompany immigration controls, Bionic Mosquito (i.e., Jonathan Goodwin) was steadfastly ensconced in the land of silence. Like many proponents of immigration controls, he simply chose not to discuss them. Bionic has ...

Bionic Mosquito Has It Wrong on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 25, 2016

Jonathan Goodwin, who writes under the pseudonym Bionic Mosquito, has an article at LewRockwell.com entitled “Open Borders and the Real World,” which is critical of the article I posted on FFF’s website last week entitled “Open Borders Is the Only Libertarian Position.” In my article, I threw down the gauntlet to libertarians who advocate government-controlled borders and who ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Case for Open Borders

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 26, 2016

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard, and special guest Bryan Caplan discuss the merits and morality of an open immigration policy. Go to the podcast.

Closed-Border Libertarians: It’s Time to End the War on Immigration

by Will Tippens January 1, 2016

Warrantless searches and seizures on a massive scale, bureaucratic logjams, arbitrary edicts that squelch freedom of association, unchecked waste and corruption — it is difficult to reconcile any of these symptoms of big government with liberty. And yet, many who strongly value freedom still support all of them in the name of border control. For these “closed-border libertarians”, the argument ...

The Libertarian Angle – The Immorality of Immigration Control

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 25, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and guest co-host Richard M. Ebeling discuss the libertarian position on immigration control. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Conservatives Deceived Me on Immigration

by Thomas R. Eddlem August 11, 2015

I grew up in the conservative movement at the end of the Cold War, but eventually realized I had been misled on the issue of immigration. When I finally took the trouble to research the issue after receiving a private offer to write a series of anti-immigration tracts (a contract from which I declined), I found that most ...

Freedom to Move: Personal Freedom or Government Control, Part II

by Richard M. Ebeling July 28, 2015

There are many economic fallacies that surround the issue of freer or open immigration into the United States, and few of them can stand up to serious critical examination. The Fallacy that Immigrants “Steal” Jobs from Americans. Opponents of more open immigration sometimes argue that the arrival of more immigrants means the threatened loss of jobs for those already living in ...

Freedom To Move: Personal Liberty or Government Control, Part I

by Richard M. Ebeling July 21, 2015

The immigration issue has once more bubbled to the surface in America because of the provocative statements and assertions by one of the Republication contenders for their party’s presidential nomination. Immigrants – especially illegal immigrants – are accused of stealing the jobs of “real” Americans, of mooching off the welfare state at the expense of taxpaying U.S. citizens and legal ...

Unjust Immigration Law Is Not Law

by Sheldon Richman February 1, 2015

As 2014 and the Democrats’ control of the Senate neared their conclusion, Barack Obama issued an executive order to defer deportation of five million people who lack government papers — mostly parents of children whom the government deems citizens or legal permanent residents. Under the order, most of those folks have received permission to work. Obama increased the number ...

The Libertarian Angle: Obama’s Immigration Decree

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 2, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: immigration policy. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.