Two Important Points About Immigration
REMINDER: We have a change in schedule for our open-borders conference. I will be presenting this coming Monday, October 7, at 7 p.m.- 8 p.m. Eastern time. I invite everyone to participate. I welcome all questions and challenges regarding the concept of open borders. To receive your Zoom link, register here.
Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas, which is being held on November 22-24 at the Dallas Marriott Downtown. My longtime friend Mike Swanson, whose two books (here and here) I highly recommend, is also speaking there. I hope to see you there!
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This past Monday, we launched our newest online conference/lecture series entitled “The Case for Open Borders.” Richard Ebeling was our first presenter. The video of his presentation has just been posted in the Multimedia section of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s website. If you didn’t participate in the live presentation, I would invite you to watch the recording.
We have had a change in schedule. Originally, I was scheduled to be the last speaker. Instead, I will be presenting this coming Monday. I invite everyone to attend and participate. I welcome every single question and I want everyone to feel free to challenge what I say in defense of open borders. We are even thinking about having a Q&A/panel discussion at the end of the program in November to enable everyone to ask questions and challenge our open-borders position.
As the presentations proceed, you will notice that there are variations in the open-borders positions among the speakers. We want everyone to be exposed to these different perspectives. For example, one or more of the speakers will be making the case for what is commonly called an “Ellis Island” type of open-borders system. This is where the government vets all incoming foreigners, with the aim of rejecting some on various grounds. Nonetheless, the government ends up letting in the vast majority of the foreigners. This was, of course, America’s immigration system throughout the 19th century. I don’t know what the exact percentage of foreigners they let in during the 1800s, but I would guess around 98 percent. Thus, while the result of an Ellis Island type of system is almost the same as a completely open-borders system (i.e., no government vetting at all), the process is different. We want you to hear and consider the arguments in favor of both positions.
In my presentation, I will be making two important points. They are points I have made throughout the 34 years of FFF’s existence and, before that, during my two years as program director at The Foundation for Economic Education. I will explain these two points in more detail in my talk this coming Monday but I would like to mention them here.
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