Some people are saying that a libertarian country would have private (not open) immigration. Basically, people would have to be "invited" in order to live there.
OK. Here's a different scenario.
Newest Hampshire is a libertarian country with no regulation on businesses. That means no minimum wage or labor laws.
Business owners start "inviting" third world immigrants to Newest Hampshire to work for them. Why? Maximizing profits. These third world immigrants will work for a small fraction of what the native population will accept.
These business owners care about the bottom line of their company, first. They do not have much concern for the greater community.
Business owners start importing Haitian immigrants by the boat load. These Haitians want to come to Newest Hampshire for the money. Understandably so. Most Haitians make less than $2 a day. In Newest Hampshire, they will make $2 an hour- a big improvement for them.
These business owners build/buy shoddy apartment buildings to house them. These Haitians are used to very low standards of living. Multiple families can be crammed into one apartment. The cost of housing them is still much less/more profitable than hiring the native population.
These Haitian live like they do in their country. Why wouldn't they?
Reckless driving is the norm in their country. They wreck into private property and keep going. They don't follow road rules. Newest Hampshire residents are negatively affected.
Littering is the norm in their country. They throw trash out of their windows. The litter blows to other people's private property. Newest Hampshire residents are negatively affected.
Sexual harrassment of women is the norm in their country. They yell at women. Make sexually explicit gestures. Newest Hampshire residents are negatively affected.
Business owners love the cheap labor. Before the Haitians arrived, they had to pay the average unskilled worker $20 an hour. Now their paying $2 an hour plus super cheap travel and housing. They have still cost cuts in the long run.
The native unskilled worker population struggles to find jobs for acceptable pay. Sure, they have advantages over the Haitians. They speak fluent English, for example. But is that skill worth 10 times the amount that an employer can pay a Haitian? No. Business owners offer natives less pay than before. Some Newest Hampshire residents now have a lower standard of living.
Problems that didn't exist (on a large scale) before start happening. Gang fights, kidnapping, scams, ransoms, rapes, sexual assaults... all things that are much more common in Haiti.
If there's elections and offices, these Haitians largely do not vote like the native population. They bring with them their own political ideas and the way society should work.
Some Newest Hampshire residents begin to complain. Others disagree. There's more conflict between residents than before.
The pro-mass immigration crowd says that the objectors are just racist. They say have empathy for the Haitians. They are just there for a better life. The objectors should be happy about mass immigration since that means cheap goods. The objectors should be happy that the Haitians are doing jobs that Newest Hampshire residents won't do. They think that the Haitians can just be taught liberty and their way of life.
Of course, these people don't live in reality. Statistics are not racists. Yes, the Haitians are there for a better life. I can understand and empathize with their reasons. I don't fault them for wanting more money. We all do. But where is the empathy for the Newest Hampshire residents? Why is this empathy one sided?
Yes, there are cheaper goods. That's a plus. But at what cost? Can we talk about NET benefit? Yes, the Haitians are doing jobs that Newest Hampshirers won't do. But there is a second part to that sentence that is oft forgotten..."for those wages."
And here's the thing: Haitians believe that their ideals and customs are right. Just like everyone else. It's their culture that has been ingrained into them since birth like just ours.
That's a challenge, right? It isn't so simple as just telling them about the non-aggression principle or explaining that women have individual rights. It's naive to think so.
I don't have all the answers. I can just see open or privatized immigration being counterproductive to the type of society they are trying to achieve. If they want a libertarian society, people within that society need to share similar ideas and values. Period.
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