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Open Borders

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Immigration

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.

Stuart Anderson | 1.26.2023 4:00 PM

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Book Reviews

The Case for 50 Percent Open Borders

A call for restricting immigration in The Culture Transplant accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.

Bryan Caplan | 1.1.2023 6:00 AM

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Book Reviews

The Case for 50 Percent Open Borders

A call for restricting immigration accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.

Bryan Caplan | 11.15.2022 1:00 PM

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used taxpayer funds to send a plane full of migrants to Martha's Vineyard as a political stunt.

Immigration

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.

Steven Greenhut | 9.30.2022 11:05 AM

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Joe Biden

Migrants Are People, Not Props

Plus: The editors have gripes with Biden’s recent interview on 60 Minutes.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 9.19.2022 5:03 PM

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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.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.22.2021 7:00 AM

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Get Ready for Life Behind Tighter Borders

People and economies are retreating, or being pushed, back behind restricted frontiers.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.8.2021 7:00 AM

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Immigration

How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th century welfare state.

Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell | 7.17.2021 6:00 AM

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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

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie | 3.22.2021 5:55 PM

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Immigration

Colombia Is Giving Legal Status to Migrants Fleeing Venezuela

The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.

Joshua Collins | 3.3.2021 3:00 PM

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Immigration

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

Nick Gillespie and John Osterhoudt | 5.13.2020 2:00 PM

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Open Borders

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.24.2020 6:00 AM

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Immigration

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.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.27.2019 2:45 PM

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Open Borders

Immigration Enriches Migrants and Their New Countries

Immigration is just like free trade.

Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith | 11.12.2019 10:25 AM

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Immigration

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.

Shikha Dalmia | 10.28.2019 2:45 PM

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Xenophobia and Pseudoscience Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy

Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.

Nick Gillespie | 5.22.2019 3:15 PM

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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.

Nick Gillespie, Ian Keyser, and Todd Krainin | 5.17.2019 3:45 PM

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Bernie Sanders

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."

Robby Soave | 4.7.2019 9:10 PM

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Open Borders

Restrictionism Will Devour the Rights of Americans Too

Liberty is not divisible. The rights of immigrants and Americans are inextricably linked.

Shikha Dalmia | 11.8.2018 10:00 AM

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Trump's Tribal Immigration Policies Hit a Wall of Facts

America is not under siege.

A. Barton Hinkle | 4.4.2018 12:00 PM

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Immigration

Immigration Brings Out the Social Engineers

If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.

Sheldon Richman | 8.6.2017 8:00 AM

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Should the U.S. Open Its Borders to Everyone? (Reason Podcast)

Ben Powell and Mark Krikorian debate immigration policy at the Soho Forum.

Jim Epstein | 2.15.2017 5:24 PM

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Immigration Reform in the Era of Trump

How America can relight the lamp beside its golden door.

Todd Krainin | 1.31.2017 1:35 PM

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Policy

Gun Control and Immigration Restrictions Are Enemies of Liberty

The major political parties both push policies that endanger our most basic liberties.

Sheldon Richman | 10.25.2015 8:30 AM

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Donald Trump

Friday Funnies: Trump's Border Wall

Henry Payne | 8.21.2015 7:00 AM

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Politics

Is the Current US Immigration Law Hurting American Kids?

Amanda Winkler | 5.18.2015 3:00 PM

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Politics

Immigration Orphans: How US Policy is Hurting American Kids

Amanda Winkler | 5.18.2015 2:22 PM

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Policy

Open Borders in America: A Look Back and Forward

Featuring highlights from decades of Reason immigration coverage

Ed Krayewski | 4.30.2015 11:00 AM

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Policy

Globalization Is Good for You!

New research demonstrates the amazing power of open markets and open borders.

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2015 11:00 AM

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Politics

Ted Cruz's Plan To Secure The Border Is Not Fiscally Conservative (Or Smart)

Jason Keisling and Shikha Dalmia | 3.31.2015 8:30 AM

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Politics

The Misguided Cruzade for Total Border Control

The Texas senator's fencing plans will impose a hefty cost on Americans

Shikha Dalmia | 3.31.2015 8:30 AM

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Politics

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

Shikha Dalmia | 1.26.2015 10:20 AM

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Politics

Jeff Sessions' Handbook of Immigration Lies

Sessions' anti-immigration narrative has little basis in the economic literature

Shikha Dalmia | 1.13.2015 6:13 PM

Politics

Will Open Borders Help or Hurt America? Shikha Dalmia Debates Reihan Salam at AEI this Evening

Reason Staff | 12.10.2014 11:23 AM

Politics

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.

Shikha Dalmia | 7.15.2014 1:00 PM

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Policy

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."

Shikha Dalmia | 6.10.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Should America Open Its Borders?

Reason Presents a Debate on Immigration

Joshua Swain | 5.11.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Should America Open Its Borders?

Reason Presents a Debate on Immigration

Joshua Swain | 5.11.2014 9:00 AM

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Policy

How Americans Can Help Ukrainians

Forget guaranteeing loans to corrupt government officials or facing down the Russians over Crimea. Open the borders!

Sheldon Richman | 3.13.2014 3:00 PM

Policy

Sheldon Richman Says Open American Borders to Aid Ukrainians

Reason Staff | 3.13.2014 3:00 PM

Policy

Immigrants: Is to Know them To Love Them?

Brian Doherty | 2.10.2014 6:07 PM

Politics

The GOP Leviathan on the Border

Shikha Dalmia | 2.7.2014 7:21 PM

Politics

Why Immigration Makes America Better

Nothing says "big government" like controlling individuals through massive federal programs, electrified fences, and biometric ID cards.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.19.2013 12:00 PM

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Peter Suderman Talks Senate Immigration Bill on FBN's Cavuto Show

Peter Suderman | 6.27.2013 3:05 PM

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Politics

Matt Welch Talks Immigration Reform on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show

Matt Welch | 6.18.2013 2:00 PM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia: 5 Reasons Why Low Skilled Immigrants are Good for the Economy

Paul Detrick and Shikha Dalmia | 4.11.2013 3:11 PM

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