Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“The traditional libertarian position, the position I argued for in my first book (Chapter 14), is support for open borders. That was also the traditional American policy. For the first century of the country’s history anyone who could get here was welcome to come. Limits on Chinese immigration and on immigrants carrying contagious diseases were imposed in the late nineteenth century but broader restrictions only came in in the nineteen-twenties and did not, at the time, apply to immigrants from other parts of the New World. Murray Rothbard switched his position from opposing restrictions on immigration to supporting them as part of his adoption of a paleolibertarian [sic] strategy of alliance with the right, joined by Hans Hoppe and others.” [editor’s note: Paleoconservatism is not libertarian, “paleo” or otherwise. When you abandon the principle, you’re not longer entitled to the term – TLK] (04/14/24)