The American bureaucracy that is worse than the TSA, IRS, and DMV combined
Recently I stumbled on a Bryan Caplan blog post I remember reading a couple years ago, about a businessman who was refused entry to the US purely on the basis of a technicality with his visa. The...
View ArticleThe modern borders regime was designed to secure international peace
This is part of a book project, see explanation here. It’s written as part 1B in this outline. For the Google Doc version, see here. The UN-led international order is primarily dedicated to protecting...
View ArticleWeekly link roundup 6
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement. Proposed Legislation Offers Citizenship To Immigrants Who Can...
View ArticlePath to Citizenship vs. Legalization: Let the Immigrants Choose
This post was originally published at the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is reproduced with the author’s permission. Representative Goodlatte (R-VA) is working toward a compromise on legalization and a...
View ArticleOpen Borders Logo Contest
Post by Fabio Rojas (see all posts by Fabio Rojas) This post was cross-posted at orgtheory.net, a group blog on sociology where Rojas is a participant. The cross-posted version is here. The Open...
View ArticleA reply to “Direct Economic Democracy”
Direct Economic Democracy has measured the open borders movement and found it wanting. I couldn’t find any biographical information on the blog other than that the author lives in the UK, so for now...
View ArticleIf Open Borders Are Instituted Gradually, What Should Be The Initial Number...
In a recent post, Vipul wrote about the importance of better understanding the number of people who might migrate under policy changes in the direction of open borders. One reason why he considers...
View ArticleWeekly link roundup 7
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement. Quora question: If animals could talk, would they be asking...
View ArticleImmigration-backed Bonds
Nathan Smith has proposed a scheme for a keyhole solution: DRITI, that has as its main features return deposits, surtaxes, and savings accounts. While I found it interesting, it looked a little...
View ArticleCosmopolitanism and open borders: a follow-up
After I wrote my post on the apparent lack of interest in open borders among cosmopolitans, I received some comments offering some contrary evidence. While, as an advocate of open borders, I remain...
View ArticlePoverty, International Aid and Immigration
One of the main justifications for supporting open borders is that it has the potential to alleviate poverty. But opening borders is not the first thing that comes to mind when people think of poverty...
View ArticleYakko’s World and the incredible danger of fetishising borders
Recently, I stumbled across this clip from the children’s cartoon Animaniacs, which in a little ditty lists the countries of the world: The ditty is not actually accurate for two reasons: The map and...
View ArticleKeyhole solutions: permissibility, desirability, feasibility, and stability
At Open Borders: The Case, we have often discussed a general class of “compromises” between full-scale open borders and full-scale closed borders that we call keyhole solutions. The possibilities...
View ArticleWeekly link roundup 8
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement. Sympathy for the Citizenist by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, August...
View ArticleOn Two-Steps And Fallacies
Readers of this blog know that there are many moral and practical reasons to favor open borders. Indeed, many open borders advocates, like myself, support open borders for a multiplicity of reasons....
View ArticleImmigration restrictions are a threat to liberty everywhere
In the civil libertarian world today, two issues rule the roost: surveillance and drones. Ordinarily civil rights issues like these find it difficult to gain traction, but increasingly it looks like...
View ArticleWeekly link roundup 9
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement. Unauthorized Immigrants: How Pew Research Counts Them and What...
View ArticleHow to Seal a Border
Perhaps the most famous and ambitious attempt to seal a border was the Berlin Wall, built in 1961 and dismantled in 1989. It formed part of the Inner German border. Only in Berlin was it a real wall,...
View ArticleOpen borders would abolish Bangladeshi sweatshops
Substandard working conditions recently murdered over 1,000 people in the deadliest garment factory accident in history. This accident in Bangladesh drew attention to the substandard wages of...
View ArticleWeekly link roundup 10
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement. I Demand to be Executed. An Open Letter to the DHS. by Mike...
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