Immigration
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How to Think About Migration
The right of individuals to move within a state, if it is one that overrides and excludes any political power to control movement and residence, should also extend to a right to move across political borders.
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Questions for Immigration Skeptics
Restricting peaceful immigration reduces the freedom of Americans.
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All I Want for Christmas Is a Forged Passport
If we are serious about helping people escape extreme poverty, it’s time we look into getting people from where their labor has lower value to where their labor has higher value.
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The Cultural Case Against Immigration Is Weak at Best
Opposition to immigration takes many forms. Most of these forms are easily tackled empirically and are found to be wanting.
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Government Cannot Select the Right Immigrants
Why believe that the state can pick the right immigrants but not the right industries to subsidize?
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Study Shows That Immigrants Help Indiana Grow
As with other matters, decentralization could be key in making things better — not only because it would benefit immigrants who want to move here to work, but also because Americans would reap the benefits of a prosperous economy.
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The U.S. Should Welcome and Celebrate Immigrant Investors
If the U.S. doesn’t want these immigrants, I am sure that other countries like Canada and Australia will. That’s how competition works.
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GoFundMe for a Government Program?
The GoFundMe campaign for the wall illustrates both the possibilities and the limitations of relying on voluntary revenue collection. Private efforts might be able to collect the money they need, but they will not and should not obtain the powers that government possesses to take away the people’s liberty and property.
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The Facts about Immigration and Crime
Right now, there are few legal avenues for low-skilled immigrants to work and live in the United States. And the avenues that do exist are too bureaucratic to be usable. So when people tell you they want undocumented immigrants who currently reside in the U.S. – and who clean our homes, mow our lawns, take…
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Political Fear Drives the Immigration Panic
Despite all the rhetoric, the debate over immigration isn’t really about human rights, economics, national security, or even culture change. Immigration policy has become an extension of national politics. Whoever wins gets to control the presidency. The people have become the fodder in a war for who gets to exercise power over whom.
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Personal Animus Should Have No Bearing on the Legality of the Travel Ban
As much as I do not want to admit it, it would be precisely right for the court to decide that Trump’s campaign statements should have no bearing on the legality or illegality of his executive order. It is not up to the courts to assess the motivations for what we do, much less to…
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Exit Scans Are Here
If you are prevented from leaving your own nation, what kind of nation is it? Prison state comes to mind. So many people I know have come to favor closed borders because they somehow think there is a connection between big government and heterogeneous populations. What they do not seem to understand is that closed…
