- Go home or face arrest: billboard crackdown on illegal immigration by Martin Bentham, July 22, 2013, in the London Evening Standard (reporting on events in the UK).
- Nowrasteh on Sowell and Immigration, a blog post by David Henderson, EconLog, July 24, 2013, reviewing two posts by Alex Nowrasteh about Thomas Sowell’s writing on immigration.
- DREAM Act protests and organizers arguing citizenship is not a requirement, July 23, 2013, on the Huffington Post website.
- When Econ Bloggers Changed My Mind, AskBlog, July 26, 2013, where Arnold Kling says Bryan Caplan helped him realize immigration is an important issue.
- Australia unveils a new policy to asylum seekers, July 26, 2013, on the BBC website.
- A Quick Note on “Borders”, by Thomas L. Knapp, July 26, 2013, on Center of a Stateless Society blog.
- Grover Norquist on Open Borders and Historically Racist Immigration Policy, an interview with Reason TV, July 6, 2013.
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Introducing Hansjörg Walther
We here at Open Borders: The Case are thrilled to announce another addition to our growing team of occasional bloggers: Hansjörg Walther!
Hansjörg Walther is a mathematician by training with a doctorate from the University of Bonn, Germany. After a year at Stanford University, he went on to work in the financial sector and currently manages corporate bond funds for a mutual fund company. In his spare time he runs the blog “Freisinnige Zeitung” which is named after a daily newspaper that was edited by German Classical Liberal Eugen Richter from 1885 until 1904. Hansjörg is interested in historical topics and has written articles for various blogs and small German magazines. He also composes music as “Kapitalistenschweine” (Capitalist Pigs) that can be found on YouTube.
We look forward to hosting Hansjörg’s posts and hope our readers find his work enlightening!
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Introducing Ryan P. Long
We here at Open Borders: The Case are happy to introduce a new occasional blogger: Ryan P. Long!
Ryan is a software consultant originally from Utah, a state that has benefited from a large and thriving Mexican immigrant population. There, he eventually earned a B.S. in Economics from Utah State University, under the tutelage of a number of extremely intelligent immigrants from China, India, the Middle East, and several neighboring states. Shortly after graduating, he became an emigrant to Canada and lived there for a duration of about nine years. While there, he met a rather wonderful Bangladeshi immigrant and eventually married her. After a couple of years, they both emigrated to Fort Worth, Texas where he now works for a company staffed with some of the brightest immigrants from India, Latin America, Europe, China, and Russia. His interest in immigration is the natural result of its ubiquity in his life, but his embrace of the open borders paradigm is the result of the many conversations he has had over the years with friends about their pre-immigration lives.
We’d like to welcome Ryan and we look forward to his future posts here!
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Weekly link roundup 4
Here’s our fourth weekly link roundup (for all our weekly link roundups, see here). As always, linking does not imply endorsement.
- Michael Clemens’ EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts on aid, migration, and poverty: EconTalk page here, downloadable MP3 here. The EconTalk page features a full transcript and related links. (More links to audio content can be found at our audio page).
- Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010 by Robert Warren and John Robert Warren.
- Breaking Down The Walls Of Pettiness by Shanu Athiparambath, July 17, 2013.
- How to Make 11 Million People Much Better Off by Conor Friesendorf, July 12, 2013, in The Atlantic.
- Slaves of Dubai, a critical documentary on the role of temporary foreign workers in building Dubai’s skyscrapers.
- Law Alone by Audacious Epigone, an analysis of World Values Survey data on how important people considered four criteria (ancestry, birthplace, customs, and laws) in determining eligibility for citizenship. See also Nathan Smith’s post who favors open borders?.
- Trade or Migrate? by Jason Sorens, July 19, 2013.
Introducing David Bier
We here at Open Borders: The Case are pleased to announce the addition of a new occasional blogger: David Bier!
David is a full-time writer and analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute and his writings have appeared in numerous news outlets. He approaches open borders from the perspective that there is a presumption in favor of liberty for migration. Only when there is a direct threat to life, liberty, or property of others can migration be restricted by governments. He is interested in all aspects of immigration, but particularly how immigration restrictions impinge the liberties of natives as well as immigrants.
We look forward to hosting David’s work on this site and hope that our readers find this a valuable contribution to the discussion!
UPDATE: On August 20, 2013, Bier left his job at CEI and joined the staff of the politician Raul Labrador as his sole policy advisor on immigration. Bier will no longer be blogging for Open Borders: The Case.
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