[snip]
"Compare central planning with the virtues of a free market. In a free market, economic activity is free of government control, regulation, and direction. The free market is what Hayek called “the spontaneous order.” It is a system in which everyone plans his own economic activities and coordinates his efforts with others. The means of communication in a free market is a sophisticated phenomenon called the “price system.”
There is something else important to note. Under an open-border system, no one has to change his citizenship. The Mexican workers who head to Oregon to harvest that farmer’s crops remain Mexican citizens. They are simply foreign citizens living and working in the United States, much like American citizens who work in, say, France. I have a friend who is Japanese. She has lived here in the United States for some 40 years. She is still a Japanese citizen. Who cares?
Instead of destroying the freedom that comes with open borders, how about devoting our efforts to dismantling the right-wing, left-wing welfare state? In the meantime, if right-wingers and left-wingers choose to give welfare to foreigners, let’s not be duped into joining them in their wrongdoing. Let’s just continue trying to end their wrongdoing."
by
Jacob G. Hornberger
September 11, 2024
A columnist for the Washington Post named Jim Geraghty recently chided me in his column for wanting to “abolish the Border Patrol and ICE and all controls on the free movements of people across borders.” With sarcasm dripping from his keyboard, Geraghty concluded, “I suppose that by declaring it to be legal for everyone to cross the border, you have technically solved the problem of illegal immigration. Yeah, that’s the way to handle the 2 million or so illegal border crossings each year over the past three years.”
While one might be...