The Libertarian Case for Open Borders

What the open borders argument looks like from the libertarian tradition

The Argument

The libertarian case for open borders: the freedom of movement is a natural extension of the libertarian commitment to individual liberty -- the right of the individual to move, seek work, and build a life without government restriction on the basis of the geographic accident of where they were born. The immigration restriction that the current system maintains is a government restriction on the voluntary exchange between willing workers and willing employers that the libertarian tradition regards as the paradigmatic case for free markets.

The Tension

The tension within libertarianism: the libertarian tradition contains both the open borders argument and the argument that the welfare state makes open borders incompatible with fiscal sustainability. Milton Friedman stated the incompatibility clearly: you can have open borders or a welfare state, but not both. The specific resolution of this tension within libertarian thought produces the positions that range from full open borders to the immigration restriction that the fiscal sustainability argument produces.

Surf Revolt Coverage

Surf Revolt covers the libertarian open borders argument because the accountability journalism of the libertarian tradition requires examining the positions where libertarian principle produces the most challenging implications, and because the immigration question is the position where the libertarian principle is most consistently in tension with the political alliances that libertarian politics have historically maintained.

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