All Posts Tagged With: "border security"

Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!

All of us should worry, if not panic, when we remember that the walls keeping others out also keep us in.

21May2009 | Becky Akers | 60 comments | Continued

The Nation is Not a House

Let’s reflect on the rhetoric used by those who oppose greater freedom for people to move back and forth across political borders. Opponents of the freedom to move frequently analogize a nation to a house. “You lock your house, don’t you?” these anti-immigrationists ask—implying that what makes sense for a home makes equally good sense [...]

1Sep2007 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

Borders and Liberty

Andrew Morriss is Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and senior associate at PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana.
Borders play a critical role in our lives. Some of the borders that matter to us are ones we establish ourselves: this is my [...]

1Jul2004 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | Continued