How Did Immigration Politics Get So Toxic?
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
Podcast host Dave Smith and philosopher Chris Freiman debate open borders on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Plus: A listener asks if libertarians are too obsessed with economic growth.
Conflating these issues only serves to make the debate over U.S. immigration policy more toxic and stupid than it already is.
The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.
The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.
Plus: A listener asks if the Roundtable has given the arguments of those opposed to low-skilled immigration a fair hearing.
Plus: A listener question concerning the key to a libertarian future—should we reshape current systems or rely upon technological exits like bitcoin and encryption?
Can Americans afford to welcome the huddled masses?
More than four months after President Joe Biden declared the pandemic to be over, the White House is fighting efforts to lift lingering and nonsensical COVID rules.
Providing legal ways to work or seek protection in America is the only viable way to reduce illegal immigration.
A call for restricting immigration in The Culture Transplant accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.
A call for restricting immigration accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.
The best rebuke to the Biden administration's inhumane border policies is for Republican governors to welcome migrants into their states.
Plus: The editors have gripes with Biden’s recent interview on 60 Minutes.
We’re on our way to having to ask for permission to go about our daily lives.
People and economies are retreating, or being pushed, back behind restricted frontiers.
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th century welfare state.
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
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
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 is just like free trade.
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.
Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
"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."
Liberty is not divisible. The rights of immigrants and Americans are inextricably linked.
If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.
Ben Powell and Mark Krikorian debate immigration policy at the Soho Forum.
How America can relight the lamp beside its golden door.
The major political parties both push policies that endanger our most basic liberties.
Featuring highlights from decades of Reason immigration coverage
New research demonstrates the amazing power of open markets and open borders.
The Texas senator's fencing plans will impose a hefty cost on Americans
This week will test if Rep. McCaul's strategy of restrictionist appeasement and border security first is politically viable
Sessions' anti-immigration narrative has little basis in the economic literature
Nativist demands to deport kids appeal neither to America's humanity nor to its commitment to limited government.
A relatively borderless world that allows free movement of people will be more tolerant, because immigrants carry with them their own antidote to "prejudice."