A Historic Refugee Crisis Miscast As a Border Emergency
Providing legal ways to work or seek protection in America is the only viable way to reduce illegal immigration.
Open Borders
The Case for 50 Percent Open Borders
A call for restricting immigration in The Culture Transplant accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.
The Case for 50 Percent Open Borders
A call for restricting immigration accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.
Don't Use Immigrants as Political Pawns
The best rebuke to the Biden administration's inhumane border policies is for Republican governors to welcome migrants into their states.
Migrants Are People, Not Props
Plus: The editors have gripes with Biden’s recent interview on 60 Minutes.
Don't Import Vaccine Mandates for Domestic Travel
We’re on our way to having to ask for permission to go about our daily lives.
Get Ready for Life Behind Tighter Borders
People and economies are retreating, or being pushed, back behind restricted frontiers.
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th century welfare state.
Immigration, Trade, and Narrative-Warping
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
Colombia Is Giving Legal Status to Migrants Fleeing Venezuela
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
The Immigration Law Nobody's Heard of That Changed America
Is COVID-19 bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end? Q&A with The New York Times' Jia Lynn Yang
Bryan Caplan Says Milton Friedman Is Wrong About Open Borders
The George Mason economist partnered with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal's Zach Weinersmith to offer a thoughtful look at immigration policy in comic form.
Immigration Enriches Migrants and Their New Countries
Immigration is just like free trade.
America Needs a 21st Century Equivalent of the Ellis Island Open Border Immigration Policy
A country that committed the original sin of slavery to forcibly bring foreign labor to America should not be going to such draconian lengths to throw voluntary foreign labor out of America.
Xenophobia and Pseudoscience Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy
Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.
Today's Anti-Immigration Script Was Written 100 Years Ago by America's Elite
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
Bernie Sanders Reminds Voters That He Is Absolutely Against Open Borders
"If your point is, open the borders, my god, there's a lot of poverty in this world and you're going to have people from all over."
Restrictionism Will Devour the Rights of Americans Too
Liberty is not divisible. The rights of immigrants and Americans are inextricably linked.
Immigration Brings Out the Social Engineers
If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.
Should the U.S. Open Its Borders to Everyone? (Reason Podcast)
Ben Powell and Mark Krikorian debate immigration policy at the Soho Forum.
Immigration Reform in the Era of Trump
How America can relight the lamp beside its golden door.
Gun Control and Immigration Restrictions Are Enemies of Liberty
The major political parties both push policies that endanger our most basic liberties.
Open Borders in America: A Look Back and Forward
Featuring highlights from decades of Reason immigration coverage
Globalization Is Good for You!
New research demonstrates the amazing power of open markets and open borders.
The Misguided Cruzade for Total Border Control
The Texas senator's fencing plans will impose a hefty cost on Americans
The Coming House Vote on Building a Berlin Wall on the Rio Grande
This week will test if Rep. McCaul's strategy of restrictionist appeasement and border security first is politically viable
Jeff Sessions' Handbook of Immigration Lies
Sessions' anti-immigration narrative has little basis in the economic literature
Foreign Kids, Heartless Nativism, and America's Huckleberry Finn Problem
Nativist demands to deport kids appeal neither to America's humanity nor to its commitment to limited government.
With Immigration, Familiarity Breeds Tolerance and Respect
A relatively borderless world that allows free movement of people will be more tolerant, because immigrants carry with them their own antidote to "prejudice."
How Americans Can Help Ukrainians
Forget guaranteeing loans to corrupt government officials or facing down the Russians over Crimea. Open the borders!
Why Immigration Makes America Better
Nothing says "big government" like controlling individuals through massive federal programs, electrified fences, and biometric ID cards.