December 2014 in review
December 2014 has been a busy and interesting month for Open Borders: The Case. This post summarizes some of the most exciting developments. Traffic patterns As detailed in the November 2014 review,...
View ArticleAn addendum to visa versus authorized stay: “automatic visa revalidation”
In my previous post on the distinction between visa and authorized stay, I had stated that, unless you are a citizen or a permanent resident (Green Card holder), you need to have a valid US visa if...
View ArticleTolerance as Not Strongly Opposing What Others Do With Their Own Person and...
At EconLog, Bryan Caplan responds, in defense of tolerance, to my earlier post, where I had distanced myself from tolerance as a moral and political ideal. Of course, I approve much of what is done,...
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Where are the Spanish tweets?
A few years ago I was on a date with an open borders skeptic. While chatting my date complained that Hispanics were not assimilating quickly enough and refused to learn the language. I pointed out that...
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Literally refusing to rescue drowning people: your taxpayer funds at work,...
Open borders advocates on occasion borrow philosopher Peter Singer’s metaphor of the drowning child: Imagine you come across a small child who has fallen into a pond and is in danger of drowning. You...
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Immigration Comics
Recently my co-blogger Vipul has begun to write about visa policy in the United States: about how most visas cannot be renewed within the United and about automatic visa validation. Vipul’s posts...
View ArticleHigh-skilled hacks: why the US immigration system needs serious refactoring
This post is the introduction to the series of “high-skilled hacks” posts, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to immigration law that...
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Bangladesh and India: move towards open borders
As I’ve previously written, South-South migration — migration within and between poor countries — deserves attention in our understanding of global migration, and we can be inspired by scholars of...
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A rose by any other name: open borders, freedom of movement, and the right to...
In our welcome blog post, we state: This website is dedicated to making the case for open borders. The term “open borders” is used to describe a world where there is a strong presumption in favor of...
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High-skilled hacks: the case of Optional Practical Training
This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to immigration law that high-skilled workers and...
View ArticleMy Summer in the Orchard: How I Came to Support Open Borders
This post is part of a series by Justin Merrill describing his personal experience with immigration and his embrace of open borders. It is part of our ongoing series of posts that are based on personal...
View ArticleIsaac Asimov & Immigration
Isaac Asimov & Immigration: Fiction as Social Commentary The celebrated writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was born in the Soviet Union to his great surprise. He moved to quickly correct the situation...
View ArticleUS immigrant processing: funded by user fees since 1882
The first piece of US federal legislation detailing procedures for immigration enforcement was the Immigration Act of 1882 (passed at about the same time as, though distinct from, the Chinese Exclusion...
View ArticleCarry your Green Card at all times: the why and how
The Green Card, originally called the Alien Registration Receipt Card, is a card possessed by non-citizen Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) in the United States. You can read about the history and...
View ArticleHow Did We Get Here? Chinese Exclusion Act — Implementation (1882-1910)
On May 29, 2013, co-blogger Chris Hendrix started off a very promising post series to explore the origins of immigration restrictions, the rationales used when introducing them, and how they were...
View ArticleJournalist Stephan Faris: Modern border regimes are apartheid
Border controls that prevent innocent foreigners from travelling peacefully are in every meaningful way identical to laws enshrining racial segregation and apartheid. Both aim to exclude people from...
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