Ron Paul was originally for open borders (a more principled libertarian stance)

[Fredom101]

Newsflash! Ron Paul is STILL for open borders, just not in a welfare state.

Well...then we need to strike the root and educate people on the evils of the welfare state instead of jumping on the pro-borders crowd bandwagon.

 

[timosman]

What I've found on the issue is the open borders Libertarians talk abstractly about private property and freedom of movement, and do not acknowledge any Libertarian concept of free immigration with protected borders. Meanwhile, the rest of us are looking at the actual scoreboard of freedom, and have noticed we got more government force, more welfare state, less private property rights and less freedom of movement in the last several decades when more open borders immigration and amnesty policies/laws were adopted. Paul noticed too, and accordingly then developed a more complete libertarian approach to the issue.

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[Ender]

Ron Paul has always been for cutting out the welfare/warfare state and freedom.