All Posts Tagged With: "open borders"

Secure in Freedom

Language is indispensable to civilization. But because we rely on language so heavily—because it is our chief means of communicating with each other as well as a tool for forming and storing our thoughts—if used carelessly it can misshape our thoughts. Careless language (or, even worse, verbal legerdemain) often turns words or phrases with positive [...]

25Aug2010 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 14 comments | Continued

Border Control Bogey

As if we weren’t already aware, the current occupant of the White House yesterday proved himself every bit the social engineer his predecessors were.

2Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 50 comments | Continued

Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable

Notwithstanding its title, this is not a textbook on labor economics. Rather, as the author stipulates in the introduction, it is “an ideological book.” It is a collection of papers written, sometimes with coauthors, by Block during the 1990s and 2000s on various labor-related topics. Of the 29 chapters, all but three were first published [...]

21May2009 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued

Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Law

In recent years there have been numerous highly publicized federal raids against companies that had violated the law by employing illegal aliens. The hapless people were deported and the companies slapped with stiff penalties. Generally, the reaction has been, “Well, it’s about time the government got tough!” For the most part, the strident voices of [...]

22Jan2009 | George C. Leef | 3 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

At the Intersection of the Minimum Wage and Illegal Immigration

Howard Baetjer is a lecturer in economics at Towson University. This question from a former student named Blake addresses the interaction of two hot political issues: “I remember in class that raising minimum wage is a bad thing to do. My question to you is, since illegal immigrants don’t get paid minimum wage most of [...]

1Mar2007 | Howard Baetjer Jr. | 6 comments | Continued

Underdeveloping Indiana

The people of the 50 states of the United States (5 percent of the world’s population) produce 31 percent of the world’s gross product of goods and services. Think of the United States as a world in itself, composed of 50 countries with open borders and no restrictions on trade between them. In this world, [...]

1Sep2002 | Manuel F. Ayau | 3 comments | Continued

The Inhumanity of Population Control

Once again the Bush administration has come under fire for a decision that runs counter to conventional wisdom. Undeterred by widespread denunciations after opposing the Kyoto Protocol, it announced that funds appropriated by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would be cut back. With all the hue and cry about the dangers of [...]

1Aug2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | Continued

Absorbing Immigrants

America should re-open its borders to immigrants. Not until 1924 did the government generally limit the number of people who could come to America and make it their home. If America’s borders had been closed, say, a century earlier, the civilization that we now call “American” would not exist. The Irish, Germans, Italians, Scandinavians, central [...]

1Jun2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 28 comments | Continued

Give Me Your Tired

I’m tired. Spending 14 hours in the air going from Athens, Greece, to Frankfurt, Germany, and back home to Phoenix in one day made me very tired. While standing in line at the U.S. Customs Bureau checkpoint, I thought about the words that are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of freedom not [...]

1Feb2002 | David A. Dorn | 0 comments | Continued

Immigration: An Abolitionist’s Cause

One of the most frequent arguments used against opening borders is that it would add to the welfare burden of the state and that innocent taxpayers will be compelled to pay for slothful immigrants. Slothful immigrants? Students in my international trade and finance classes always get a good laugh at the notion of “slothful immigrants.” [...]

1Jan2002 | Ken Schoolland | 0 comments | Continued

The Benefits of Immigration

In my October “Notes from FEE” I challenged a case, made by some market-advocates, for immigration restrictions. I have since received scolding letters and E-marls from numerous people predicting that open borders would bring all manner of calamities. While some writers were less certain than others about the baleful consequences of unregulated immigration, only one [...]

1Dec1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 59 comments | Continued

A Free-Market Case Against Open Immigration?

Recently, upon finishing Leonard Read’s superb book Anything That’s Peaceful (FEE, 1964), I felt a surge of thankfulness and honor. I’m thankful that such a wise man lived and wrote, and I’m honored to now lead the organization that he founded. Leonard Read was truly a great liberal—a liberal, of course, in the original and [...]

1Oct1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 3 comments | Continued

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