Anti-open borders people

Many people have argued against open borders. The names of some of these are included below. Links are to pages about them on this website. Note: Some of the writings and videos of these people are excerpted/quoted/embedded/linked to on this website. However, the people listed here are not affiliated with this website or responsible for any content on the website.

Anti-open borders people in academia (including economists, political scientists, and other academic disciplines)

• George Borjas, an economist at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe, anarcho-capitalist who has worked on building the anarcho-capitalist counterfactual, a theoretical libertarian case against immigration.
• Tino Sanandaji, an economics post-doc at the University of Chicago.

Anti-open borders people working as writers and researchers for think tanks, advocacy groups, and anti-immigration webzines

• Peter Brimelow, founder and editor of VDARE and author of Alien Nation.
• Steve Sailer, prolific blogger who is fascinated by topics of human biodiversity, IQ, genetics, race, movies, culture, and politics. Sailer writes for VDARE.
• Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
• Roy Beck, environmentalist and CEO of NumbersUSA.
• Michelle Malkin, prolific blogger and writer on contemporary US politics. Her syndicated column occasionally deals with immigration, and appears on VDARE.
• Pat Buchanan, a US-based paleoconservative political commentator who has, in his books and columns, argued against immigration.

Anti-open borders people who are directly involved in politics or government and have used their political or government position to advocate for anti-immigration legislation

• Kris Kobach, Secretary of State for Kansas, and one of the people who helped formulate immigration crackdown legislation in Arizona, Alabama, and other states.
• Tom Tancredo

Some other people have spoken out against open borders, and have been addressed in blog posts on the Open Borders blog.

• Victor Davis Hanson has been addressed in the blog post Victor Davis Hanson by Nathan Smith, October 10, 2012.
• Thomas Sowell has been partially addressed in the blog post Has the era of mass migration come to a close? by Vipul Naik, September 22, 2012.