The border is no longer the focus. Now, the White House wants you to believe that the crisis extends to nail salons, hardware stores, farms, and restaurants across the country.
Is it consistently libertarian to support government restrictions on immigration?
"The reason they're doing this is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself...to shut the fuck up," said Hasan Piker.
It appears many people are now eager to dispense with due process.
Detroit lawyer Amir Makled has confidential client data on his phone. That didn’t stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from trying to search it.
Know how much the law does—and doesn’t—protect your privacy rights.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
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Nearly 40 percent of Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the U.S. through Ellis Island. However, today's migrants may be shut out and deported, a humanitarian tragedy that would profoundly damage the U.S. economy.
Immigration experts Alex Nowrasteh and Bryan Caplan make the case for significantly more and easier immigration to the U.S.
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The president plans to suspend refugee resettlement and declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border.
David Bier has an excellent analysis on this point.
Annunciation House feeds, shelters, and clothes immigrants. State officials say it's "systemic criminal conduct."
The Biden administration continued many of the same immigration enforcement measures he lambasted Trump for using.
Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff discuss their new documentary about the family separation policy implemented during Trump’s first term.
Flawed calculations and overlooked benefits show why Trump's immigration plan would be a fiscal disaster for America.
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Proposition 314 will allow state and local police to enforce immigration law—and shield them from lawsuits over misconduct related to that enforcement.
Decades of border surveillance programs have spent billions of dollars but achieved little.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
I debated former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich over various issues related to the southern border, particularly whether illegal migration and cross-border drug smuggling qualify as an "invasion" under the Constitution.
Tim Walz is wrong to insist that it would "keep our dignity about how we treat other people."
The program allows Americans to sponsor migrants Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti. The Administration suspended it based on extremely dubious concerns about fraud.
The president's plan to address security at the Mexican border drew backlash both from immigration advocates and border hawks.
Law enforcement could arrest those they suspect of crossing into the state illegally—and they’d be “immune from liability for damages.”
“The entry of any noncitizen into the United States across the southern border is hereby suspended and limited,” said the president’s order.
This is the law that made most immigration presumptively illegal, with terrible effects that continue even today.
They're fleeing tyranny and seeking opportunity, not coming to "build a little army."
Economist Michael Clemens has the most extensive and sophisticated analysis of this issue to date.
Exaggerated threats of terrorists crossing the southern border lead to costly, disproportionate policy decisions.
I participated, along with former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and former DHS official Sohan Dasgupta.
The same tactics used to justify drone strikes are now being used to demonize immigrant men.
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Podcast host Dave Smith and philosopher Chris Freiman debate open borders on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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The "data that exist for this year show consistent declines in major crimes in major cities."
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Plus: A listener asks if the state of Oregon’s policy on drug decriminalization should be viewed as a success.
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It mixes much-needed reform with changes that could upend the asylum system in damaging ways.
If House Speaker Mike Johnson really wants less chaos at the border, he should look for ways to make legal immigration more accessible—and more attractive—than illegal immigration.
Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier explains how it can be done, in a NY Times op ed.
Plus: a shaky bipartisan border deal, the looming Taylor Swift PSYOP, and the disappearance of the D.C. area's greatest landmark...
Plus: A listener asks if libertarians are too obsessed with economic growth.
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