Border Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger May 5, 2024 Libertarian advocates of immigration controls always focus solely on the issue of immigration controls and never on the police state that comes with them. That’s because the police-state aspects of an immigration-control system make them extremely uncomfortable given the fact that a police state is the opposite of a libertarian society. I believe that it’s important to constantly remind people that one of the prices that we pay for the abandonment of the libertarian principle of open borders is a police state — that is, a society in which the government wields and exercises immigration powers that destroy the principles of a libertarian society. Before we examine the specific aspects of America’s immigration police state, however, it’s worth noting that a police state is an inevitable part of America’s immigration-control system. That’s because migrants, in an attempt to save or improve their lives by fleeing to a society that offers hope and opportunity, will inevitably circumvent the controls that have been ...
Let’s Stick with Traditional American Values! by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2000 Upon reading Hans-Herman Hoppe’s article “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration,” I couldn’t help but wonder whether he first reached the conclusion that he wanted to reach and then constructed a set of arguments to support that conclusion. Hoppe begins his article by correctly pointing out that from a theoretical standpoint, open immigration does, in fact, increase people’s standard of living. He also correctly observes that those who use the welfare state as an excuse for controlling immigration (as his associate Llewellyn Rockwell does) are “wrongheaded.” Nevertheless, Hoppe ends up concluding that open borders for the United States should be rejected in favor of a government-controlled and government-regulated immigration policy. Let’s examine the chain of reasoning that leads Hoppe to this conclusion. Hoppe first suggests that simply because a government is instituted, especially a ...
Let’s Stick with Traditional American Values! by Jacob G. Hornberger March 20, 2010 Upon reading Hans-Herman Hoppe’s article “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration,” I couldn’t help but wonder whether he first reached the conclusion that he wanted to reach and then constructed a set of arguments to support that conclusion. Hoppe begins his article by correctly pointing out that from a theoretical standpoint, open immigration does, in fact, increase people’s standard of living. He also correctly observes that those who use the welfare state as an excuse for controlling immigration (as his associate Llewellyn Rockwell does) are “wrongheaded.” Nevertheless, Hoppe ends up concluding that open borders for the United States should be rejected in favor of a government-controlled and government-regulated immigration policy. Let’s examine the chain of reasoning that leads Hoppe to this conclusion. Hoppe first suggests ...
Let’s Stick with Traditional American Values! by Jacob G. Hornberger March 27, 2010 Upon reading Hans-Herman Hoppe’s article “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration,” I couldn’t help but wonder whether he first reached the conclusion that he wanted to reach and then constructed a set of arguments to support that conclusion. Hoppe begins his article by correctly pointing ...
Let’s Stick with Traditional American Values! by Jacob G. Hornberger March 27, 2010 Upon reading Hans-Herman Hoppe’s article “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration,” I couldn’t help but wonder whether he first reached the conclusion that he wanted to reach and then constructed a set of arguments to support that conclusion. Hoppe begins his article by correctly pointing ...
Let’s Stick with Traditional American Values! by Future of Freedom Foundation March 27, 2010 Upon reading Hans-Herman Hoppe’s article “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration,” I couldn’t help but wonder whether he first reached the conclusion that he wanted to reach and then constructed a set of arguments to support that conclusion. Hoppe begins his article by correctly pointing ...
Hornberger’s Blog, October 2010 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2010 Friday, October 29, 2010 Debating a Socialist I just returned from Tampa, Florida, where I engaged in a debate sponsored by the Tampa branch of the Young President’s Organization. The topic was “Libertarianism or Socialism?”. My opponent was a gentleman named Brian Moore, who is a self-avowed socialist. The debate was cordial but hard-hitting. Moore is an affable guy, but it amazes ...
Libertarianism and the Child Immigrant Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2014 Last week I received an interesting email from an irate woman who said: “Well you have your open border now. It remains to be seen how it will work out.” She was obviously referring to the child immigrant crisis in which tens of thousands of immigrant children are illegally crossing into the United States, where they are being arrested by ...
Alienating the Inalienable by Hannah Hoffman December 1, 2009 The freedom movement is inspiring in many ways. It promotes a peaceful, liberated society in which people can be free to pursue their own ideas. Yet I find it ironic that while most involved in the freedom movement recognize the idea of personal liberty, many still hold an anti-liberty, anti-immigration view. When it comes to inalienable rights with which all ...
Alienating the Inalienable by Jacob G. Hornberger March 21, 2010 The freedom movement is inspiring in many ways. It promotes a peaceful, liberated society in which people can be free to pursue their own ideas. Yet I find it ironic that while most involved in the freedom movement recognize the idea of personal liberty, many still ...
Alienating the Inalienable by Future of Freedom Foundation March 20, 2010 The freedom movement is inspiring in many ways. It promotes a peaceful, liberated society in which people can be free to pursue their own ideas. Yet I find it ironic that while most involved in the freedom movement recognize the idea of personal liberty, many still ...
Alienating the Inalienable by Future of Freedom Foundation April 26, 2010 The freedom movement is inspiring in many ways. It promotes a peaceful, liberated society in which people can be free to pursue their own ideas. Yet I find it ironic that while most involved in the freedom movement recognize the idea of personal liberty, many still ...
