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My first post at Open Borders: The Case in a year and a half. https://openborders.info/…/residents-bill-rights-fixing-im…/

A Resident’s Bill of Rights: Fixing Immigration While Protecting Communities April 24, 2018 Nathan Smith Leave a comment My fundamental convictions have not changed: I support open borders. And yet one can’t tilt at windmills too long without feeling a sense of futility and even foolishness. We ...
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Help the Rohingya with open borders.

https://openborders.info/blog/open-borders-rohingya/

Open Borders for the Rohingya March 4, 2018 Joel Newman Leave a comment Open borders means admitting immigrants who are rich and poor, persecuted and privileged, educated and uneducated, skilled and unskilled, from all countries. It means the opportunity for all people (with very few exceptions) to....
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U.S. immigration restrictions hurt American citizens in various ways.
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Immigration Restrictions Hurt Americans Too August 23, 2017 Joel Newman Leave a comment American immigration restrictions inflict immense suffering on immigrants and would-be immigrants. Thousands have died attempting to enter the U.S. through the desert, and others have perished attempting to make…
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As he wraps up his work as an immigration lawyer, David Bennion offers his own thoughts on the contradictions and struggles of a believer in freedom of migration working within the constraints of the immigration law system.

Attorney David Bennion argues that immigration lawyers can experience cognitive dissonance pushing for recognition of human rights in a system designed to suppress them.
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It is wrong when super privileged individuals like Trump deny open borders to the disadvantaged from poor and violent countries.
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Opportunity means having the option to work towards a life with sufficient or even prodigious resources. Unfortunately, equal opportunity does not exist either within or between countries. Differences in opportunity are, however, especially pronounced between countries. This is a major reason why op...
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The current resistance to immigration enforcement in the U.S. is reminiscent of the opposition to the Fugitive Slave Laws, writes Joel Newman.

https://openborders.info/…/resistance-u-s-immigration-rest…/

required citizens to help recapture slaves and delegated power to federal commissioners to decide whether those arrested would be freed or sent back to slavery. Both this law and its predecessor, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, imposed fines on those who interfered with the recapture process.
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Happy Open Borders Day!

Celebrating our 5th anniversary.

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Open Borders Day is an annual international event to celebrate the prospect of open borders and spread the word about it. it is held every year on March 16, in honor of the launch of the
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In his book "Reflection on the Revolution in Europe", Christopher Caldwell paints a picture where "Muslims now either dominate or vie for domination of certain important European cities." On closer inspection, it turns out that Caldwell presents a biased sample as typical, and not even for this samp...
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Joel Newman gives reasons why millions of Syrian refugees should be allowed to enter the U.S. and Canada.

https://openborders.info/…/u-s-canada-open-borders-syrian-…/

I had hoped that the Syrian civil war would produce, against the odds, a democracy which protected the diverse ethnic groups who live in the country. Either non-jihadist democratic Syrian rebels would prevail and be charitable towards those who have supported the Assad government, or an agreement be...
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Outgoing US President Obama recently announced the discontinuation of the United States' "wet feet, dry feet" policy for Cubans. Here's a post from three years ago arguing for the continuation of the policy.

The US "wet feet, dry feet" policy for Cuban refugees gives them an unfair advantage over refugees from other countries. But the solution isn't to get rid of the policy. The solution should be to move to a fairer and simpler system: open borders.
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Deportation constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, according to Joel Newman.

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Deportation Constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment December 24, 2016 Joel Newman Leave a comment “As Justice Brandeis recognized long ago, deportation is akin to the loss of property or life, or ‘all that makes life worth living.’” (Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, 1997, 2(18), p. 737) Donald Trump…
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Immigration restrictionist Peter Brimelow has previously argued that post-1790 immigration accounts for only half of the US' current population. Hansjoerg Walther rebuts Brimelow, highlighting the long-term significance of immigration in shaping a nation's population.

Leading restrictionist Peter Brimelow has made the claim that the US would have about half its population even if there had been no immigration since 1790. Hansjörg Walther shows why that cannot be true. Some 75% of Americans are there because of immigration after 1790. The US was taken over by immi...
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Alexander Sager combines ideas from political philosophy and critical border studies to argue that bureaucratic domination is a particularly significant problem in immigration enforcement. And a free migration policy is the best way to deal with this problem.

Three reasons the usual checks and balances against bureaucratic domination fail for immigration enforcement.
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Enoch Powell made history with his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech, predicting a huge increase in the UK's nonwhite population and national decline as a result.

Hansjoerg Walther argues that Powell's demographic projections were accurate but that anybody who calculated with care would get similar numbers. Therefore, we shouldn't give Powell undue credit or deferrence for deep insight into the future.

This is the first of many planned posts by Walther critiquing Chris Caldwell's book "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe".

The accuracy of the UK politician's demographic projections wasn't uncanny -- anybody who calculated carefully would reach similar numbers.
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Joel Newman argues that open borders could strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector.

http://openborders.info/…/american-manufacturing-open-bord…/

Help American Manufacturing With Open Borders November 28, 2016 Joel Newman Leave a comment A major theme of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was decrying the loss of American manufacturing jobs to other countries and pledging to bring them back. He plans to accomplish this by changing U.S. trad...
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"Christmas is traditionally a time both of “good will to all men,” and, falling at the end of the year, of quiet reflection. It seems fitting then to consider the influence on our celebration of this period that has been exercised by ‘all men’; not only those born native to our country, but also immigrants and travellers who have made their way here, and those residing in foreign lands who have affected us from afar."

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Did the pilgrims have a right to migrate to the Americas?

"By what right did 100 English Puritans, remembered as “the Pilgrims,” arrive at Cape Cod late in the year in 1620 and establish a new settlement called Plymouth Plantation? None was needed. Or if you prefer, by the right over the earth which God granted to all mankind..."

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In defense of the Pilgrims November 22, 2012 Nathan Smith 6 Comments By what right did 100 English Puritans, remembered as “the Pilgrims,” arrive at Cape Cod late in the year in 1620 and establish a new settlement called Plymouth Plantation? None was needed. Or if you prefer, by the right over the e...
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