Immigration and Integrity. In any case, none of that has anything to do with the fundamental human right to move from place to place. That trumps everything else in this argument, and the only “reply” opponents of open borders can make is to dismiss those of us who point it out as “doctrinaire” or “dogmatic”. We are, in fact, principled, and that annoys them to no end.
Will open borders cause problems? Certainly they will. There’s no human activity that isn’t attended by problems of one kind or another. Will opening the borders cause more problems than trying to close them? Absolutely not. Border controls of the kind that De Coster and Cox seem to demand are totally inconsistent with maintaining a free country. Of course if the last thing you want is a free country, then border controls are the perfect place to begin. And there are always plenty of “useful idiots” like these two to help you make it happen.
Principles mean nothing—in fact, they mean less than nothing—when adhering to them is easy. Adhering to them when it’s hard is what principles are all about, and the determination to do so is called integrity. [The Libertarian Enterprise]
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