{"id":709,"date":"2022-12-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=709"},"modified":"2022-12-12T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:37:12","slug":"the-case-for-open-borders-by-harry-binswanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/the-case-for-open-borders-by-harry-binswanger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Open Borders by Harry Binswanger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Dr. Binswanger defends a radical position on immigration: the moral imperative to end all forms of governmental interference with freedom of travel. Crossing a national border, he argues, should be as free, unregulated, and unsupervised as crossing a state border. He takes on all the common objections to open borders, including: \u201cImmigrants take our jobs away,\u201d \u201cOpen borders abandon sovereignty,\u201d \u201cImmigration is harmful in a welfare state,\u201d and \u201cImmigrants will vote the wrong way.\u201d He concludes by explaining why freedom of entry is of special importance to Objectivists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded live on July 2, 2022 as part of the Objectivist Summer Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Binswanger defends a radical position on immigration: the moral imperative to end all forms of governmental interference with freedom of travel. Crossing a national border, he argues, should be as free, unregulated, and unsupervised as crossing a state border. He takes on all the common objections to open borders, including: \u201cImmigrants take our jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[762,40,763,12,25,139,397],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-borders","tag-immigration","tag-mexico","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-property-rights","tag-rights","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}