On we sweep, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore
--Led Zeppelin
This morning Judge Nap wrote on his Facebook page that "immigration is a natural right." I'm not sure I quite agree with him.
First, let's define immigration as changing country of residence. Leaving one country to settle in another.
Certainly, the 'leaving' side is a natural right. If people dislike where they live, then they should be free to leave.
It is entering someone else's country that is problematic. The existing borders of a country can be seen as a property right. If people inside that country impose restrictions on who can enter, then those restrictions must be respected. If those restrictions are not respected, then those entering the country are unwanted intruders, and it is the right of those inside the country to defend against unwanted intrusion.
Of course, a country that truly values freedom would put no restrictions on entry. Immigrants would be welcome as long as they respected the life, liberty, and property of others.
For countries who believe otherwise, however, it is not right for unwelcome outsiders to intrude.
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There cannot be the slightest doubt that migration barriers diminish the productivity of human labor.
~Ludwig von Mises
Nationalist policies, which always begin by aiming at the ruination of ones neighbor, must, in the final analysis, lead to the ruination of all.
The idea of freedom is both national and cosmopolitan. It is revolutionary, for it wants to abolish all rule incompatible with its principles, but it is also pacifistic. What basis for war could there still be, once all peoples had been set free?
~Ludwig von Mises
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