“I agree except for two points: You cannot have open immigration until you end the welfare state and people engaged in abortion are hurting someone else.
Immigration also has profound “neighbor effects”, so even in the absence of a welfare state reasonable limits on immigration make sense. “
DING DING DING!
You can’t have open borders with a country that has a controlled economy, especially if you offer *any* sort of social services, including public schools. You *can* have open borders with a country that has a free economy.
Welfare has nothing to do with it, if you announce to the hundreds of millions of the world’s peasants, that they can struggle here in America amongst the wonderful infrastructure, healthy environment, stable government, and plentiful food, then they will abandon their mud huts, dirt floors, diseased cities, and war torn nations, and move here, and not because they will be given welfare that their own country never gave them either.
If you are barely existing and live in Mexico, or El Salvador, or Nicaragua, or Africa, or Asia, and someone can convince you that you really can move to Los Angeles, or Boston, or Dallas, legally and without any immigration hassles or legalities, then literally hundreds of millions would do it.