The author has a weird name but I think he is dead-on, open borders cannot exist as long as there is government interference. Like many other things they can only exist in ideal conditions like a vacuum that are impossible in our reality.
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Open Borders in THIS World
April 15, 2016
Merkel’s open borders pronouncement is the gift that keeps on giving in this libertarian debate about borders and immigration.
I understand quite well the theory of immigration in a theoretical libertarian world. Property owners decide who is allowed on their property (it is interesting – many open-borders libertarians are also the first to demand that a property owner cannot decide regarding things like baking wedding cakes and taking wedding photographs). Any unclaimed / unowned land is available to whoever wants to mix his labor with it.
I agree with this theory – it is a good libertarian theory. But we are living in this world, and Merkel has offered a gift, one virtually never available in the social sciences – a real-life experiment.
Weighing in on this issue is George Soros (HT Zerohedge). The open borders libertarians will read the following and scream (well, if they are consistent libertarians they will scream) “there is nothing libertarian about this.” And this is my point, but more on this later.
Soros finds four flaws with the agreement reached last month between Merkel and Erdogan:
First, the policy is not truly European; it was negotiated with Turkey and imposed on the EU by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Truly European, presumably, would be a policy negotiated by Brussels and the EU – and imposed on the people of Europe. Merkel, at least, was duly elected – the same cannot be same for those sitting in Brussels.
Second, it is severely underfunded.
Here is that pesky “private property” thing, getting in the way. A libertarian policy inherently could never be underfunded as allowing immigrants onto one’s property or funding one’s own emigration would be completely voluntary. In this case? I don’t believe Soros is calling for a passing of the offering plate on Sunday.
Third, it is not voluntary.
Wait a minute…Soros is calling for involuntary funding while finding fault in the current plan for not being voluntary?
It imposes quotas that many member states oppose and requires refugees to take up residence in countries where they don’t want to live, while forcing others who have reached Europe to be sent back.
Paging Walter Block! While it might be arguable regarding immigration onto government occupied or otherwise unoccupied land (arguably, but a failed argument, I believe), I don’t believe the refugees are demanding residence on the top of the Swiss Alps. They “want to live” in the countries that are most flexible and generous regarding taxpayer-funded support.
Soros suggests the refugees have a right to live in any country they choose? And that unwelcome visitors should not expect to be evicted?
Finally, it transforms Greece into a de facto holding pen without sufficient facilities for the number of asylum seekers already there.
Somewhere there will be a holding pen as long as the never-ending war continues; at no point in his op-ed does Soros point to the root of the problem, being Western military intervention throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
All these deficiencies can be corrected.
Let’s see how.
Legitimate refugees must be offered a reasonable chance to reach their destinations in Europe.
Walter – by “their destinations” he isn’t talking about homesteading in the outskirts of Vadsø, Norway (and neither are the immigrants). Read the sentence carefully: “must.” Is there anything libertarian about imposing a positive right?
EU leaders need to embrace the idea that effectively addressing the crisis will require “surge” funding…
Again, is Soros talking about some sort of crowdfunding initiative? Will the EU leaders take up a collection amongst themselves?
…refugees and the countries that contain them in the Middle East must receive enough financial support to make their lives there viable, allowing them to work and to send their children to school.
Voluntary funding or forced funding?
He writes of a level of refugees that Europe can absorb:
This can be accomplished by establishing a firm and reliable target for the number of refugee arrivals: between 300,000 and 500,000 per year.
Government-enabled quotas; government-enabled open borders. This, Soros describes as “voluntary.”
The asylum seekers could then be required to await their turn where they are currently located.
How?
Those who jump the line would lose their place and have to start all over again. This should be sufficient inducement to obey the rules.
Unless European countries put up effective border controls many will jump the line, especially those who know they have no chance to get in through the front door – exactly the ones that many Europeans would likely not want in Europe.
At least €30 billion ($34 billion) a year will be needed for the EU to carry out such a comprehensive plan.
I don’t think there is anything voluntary about this open borders plan. Thirty billion Euros per year isn’t “pass the plate” money.
How would Soros pay for this? (Hint – he won’t):
Where will the necessary funds come from? There is a strong case to be made for using the EU’s balance sheet itself. The EU presently enjoys a triple-A credit rating that is underused and that allows it to borrow in the capital markets on very attractive terms. And with global interest rates at near historic lows, now is a particularly favorable moment to take on such debt.
And where will the money be spent?
…the countries to which the funds would be aimed—like Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Greece—are merely on the frontlines of what must be a collective European undertaking; they are entitled to grants, rather than loans, and should not be obliged to repay the monies they receive.
Grants – to be offset by several new taxes suggested by Soros: EU-wide VAT taxes, additional gasoline taxes, taxes on travel and visa application, etc.
The refugee crisis poses an existential threat to Europe.
Europe’s existential threat began in 1914. Yet, as far as he goes, on this I agree with Soros – for different reasons. He sees the existential threat to the EU, integration, and everything that strips the uniqueness of culture and experience from each state and even region within Europe.
I see the threat to the uniqueness of every state and even region within Europe; this is what makes Europe…Europe.
Conclusion
Open borders libertarians will scream: “bionic, there is nothing about this plan that is libertarian!” I agree. And this is the point.
Open borders libertarians scream when someone suggests open borders in this world is not libertarian: “you are calling for government intervention.” Yet there is silence in addressing the massive government intervention necessary to facilitate and force immigration today – Soros describes exactly this intervention. Somehow, this form of government intervention is acceptable to open borders libertarians.
There can be no such thing as a purely libertarian immigration policy in this world governed as it is – governed by monopoly actors who dictate rules about the use of and access to private property.
Libertarians might stop pretending that there is.
Original link HERE.
Only a complete idiot could swallow the open borders gibberish. People are not interchangeable, culture matters, and, no, there is not a little, well-behaved, loyal, industrious American screaming to get out of every dusky invader on our shores. Full libertarianism works only when you have a strong, stable country that allows people to indulge ideological fantasies. I like freedom from government as much as the next person but its complete absence does not mean liberty, it mean anarchy, and that is not pretty. It means a dog-eat-dog world. In our case, open borders means an endless horde of primitive, uneducated, mostly unemployable aliens looting our country. If you meet an open borders nitwit, punch him in the nose. He is a traitor and a fool.
Why do open borders always only work in one direction?
sorry, stupid essay…I can’t consume data that is riddled
with the opinions of Soros
In the United States we’re constantly assured that all those invading Mexican and Central Americans are a great economic resource and a boon to the economy.
If so, why are their homelands so happy to be rid of them?
(Trump has actually answered that, none of the others have, but most people took little notice to the answer since the way it was presented was a bit indirect. Remember the wall and the limitations on money sent back to Mexico? The economic boost from the illegals is to Mexico, not the US.)
Traitors are filling the ranks of their Fifth Columns.
We are witnessing the deliberate destruction of Western civilization and culture both in Europe and the U.S. The Schengen Area in Europe, as well as our own southern border, has become open and barely policed thanks to the likes of Soros, Merkel and Obama.
Obama, in an effort to accomplish as much fundamental transformation of this country as possible before his term runs out, has now created the “Obama Surge”. He has fast-tracked his goal of bringing in 10,000 “Syrian” refugees before the end of the year, and that figure is now a floor – not a ceiling. In fact, John Kerry has already approached Congress in an effort to increase the 10,000 up to 30,000. Despite the warnings from both DHS and the FBI that we are not capable of properly vetting these immigrants, Obama has whittled down the vetting process from 18-24 months to a mere three months. It is as if he knows that there are Islamic jihadists such as Tasfeen Malik and Syed Farook amongst the so-called refugees, but he just doesn’t care. As always, he must have his way – America be damned.
These immigrants are being deposited in approximately 82 communities across the nation and usually without the communities being alerted to the influx to the selected voluntary agencies or “volags” as they call themselves. The volags are compensated by the Federal government quite nicely per refugee for 180 days as they feed, clothe and house the refugees. At the end of 180 days these refugees, with the volags assistance, are set up on numerous welfare programs for food and housing etc.
Yes, this is just a part of Obama and the cultural Marxists’ plan to fundamentally transform a nation that he has hated for virtually his entire life. If religious questions have not dogged you before, one ought to at least consider why a kind and loving God would see to it to allow a man to steer a ship that he personally wishes to send to its watery grave.
“Paging Walter Block! ”
Oh, HELL no. Let him sleep. This piece is already fuckin boring enough.
Good reason to never “own” property in the West. You never know when the government will turn “your land” into a worthless war zone. Best thing to do is live in a van with solar panels and get a gym membership till this thing implodes. Think of how much money you’ll have to spend on yourself when you’re not paying some worthless rentseeker their cut for offering nothing more than what every man is entitled to…a place to lay his head, a small plot to inhabit without anyone trying to extort him.
We have a problem with the average dolt in this country.
They simply don’t understand that when you make a deposit in the bank. You are making a short term loan that gets rolled over every day.
To boot, the value of said Federal Reserve notes (dollars). Is predicated on the productivity of its people and the confidence there of.
Lots of La Dee Da Liberals don’t realize they and their offspring potentially have a lot to lose given these facts.
With Obama and his ilk giving the SS its another backdoor to citizenship and voting.Trump is right,round them up send them home.