Whoever he is, the next US President will be wrong on immigration
Josh Barro of Bloomberg has a good piece on 5 terrible policies which both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney endorsed in last night’s US presidential debate. My only complaint about Barro’s article: its...
View ArticleOpen borders and climate change
Could climate change be good? Wikipedia’s article on “Regional effects of climate change” lists a wide variety of effects of climate change, all of which seem to be bad. That seems odd. Unless the...
View ArticleClosed borders kill people
Open borders advocates have long seized philosophical hypotheticals to argue that open borders would, quite literally, save lives. Restrictionists tend to jump through all kinds of hoops to argue that...
View ArticleChilecon Valley
Post by Nathan Smith (regular blogger for the site, joined April 2012). See: all posts by Nathan Smith Nathan Smith's personal statement From The Economist: THE world’s most valuable resource is...
View Article“I couldn’t accept that aging rulers simply decreed: “‘You can’t leave the...
Der Spiegel has an interesting story on how one East German couple plotted to emigrate “legally” to West Germany. It’s an interesting read, and it calls to mind one of the most fundamental moral...
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Some absurdities of immigration policy
One oft-overlooked point about immigration policy is just how absurd and arbitrary it is, in any country you can name. One of the best prima facie arguments against the policy status quo is that it...
View ArticleLink roundup: December 12, 2012
Some links that may be worth reading are below. Note that linking is not the same as endorsing. I have some thoughts on each of these, but those are for another time. Human Trafficking: The Other Good...
View ArticlePeggy Noonan
Among other things, she writes: Finally, Republicans should shock everyone, including themselves, by pushing for immigration reform—now. Don’t wait for the president, do it yourselves, come forward...
View ArticleThe Good and Bad of the Immigration Reform Blueprint
This post originally appeared on the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is reprinted with the author’s permission. Today, the so-called Gang of Eight senators revealed a blueprint for an immigration reform...
View ArticleSecure the US-Mexico border: open it
The Associated Press has a great story out on what a “secure” US-Mexico border would look like. It covers perspectives from various stakeholders on border security, with opinions running the gamut from...
View ArticleUS Republicans should not give up on immigrants
Bryan Caplan at EconLog recently pondered why it is that Asians in the US lean Democratic. I suggested in the comments of Bryan’s post that his view — that Asians don’t feel Republicans respect them —...
View ArticleOpen borders encourages assimilation: a lesson from the EU?
The Economist recently ran an interesting story on intra-EU migration. Relative to Greece and Spain, Germany has an economy chugging along well. Peripheral immigration to Germany is growing, which was...
View ArticleOpen borders: the right political and ethical choice for Republicans
Following up on my earlier discussion of why I think the US Republican Party would be wise to consider a more liberal approach to immigration, I note that the Republican Party of Nevada recently became...
View ArticleRand Paul’s interesting precedent
While I don’t generally buy into the views of Ron or Rand Paul on foreign policy, Rand Paul’s filibuster, which is being credited with giving new momentum to the GOP, sets a promising precedent. Paul’s...
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Imaginary lines: the borders of Southeast Asia and the Nusantara
As I write, a stand-off has been ongoing in East Malaysia for almost a month: the Sultan of Sulu, who in reality is a private Filipino citizen with no sovereignty in his own right, ordered his...
View ArticleA DREAM Act for Singapore? Or, the arbitrariness of nationality-based...
There is a 19-year-old Filipino citizen who has literally lived her entire life in Singapore who, as of this writing, risks being kicked out of the only country she has ever called home: Nadirah was...
View ArticleThe Gang of 8 immigration deal
I’m not a political junkie (anymore) and I try not to follow all the feints and counter-offers and posturing and whatnot that comprises so much of political discourse, but at this point the momentum...
View ArticleGermany is thinking about abolishing visas
Open borders advocates may have some allies over in Germany. In January this year, Deutsche Welle published this story with the unassuming title German companies want fewer visa restrictions (emphasis...
View ArticleCroatia, the EU, and Yet Another Experiment in Open Borders
Yesterday Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union. In doing so joined Europe’s great experiment in free trade and free immigration across diverse languages, beliefs, and cultures. The EU...
View ArticleWeekly link roundup 2
This is the second of our weekly link roundups (the first was here). As always, the pieces linked may have been published earlier, and linking does not imply endorsement. Open borders in (at least) one...
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