CONTRA HOPPE AND BRAT ON IMMIGRATION

Walter E Block

Abstract


What is the proper libertarian position on immigration? Some libertarians favor open borders. An immigrant, merely by showing up at a country’s borders, and attempting to cross them, is not committing a per se crime of initiatory violence. Others such as Hoppe and Brat maintain this is indeed a rights violation: trespass. The present paper undertakes a critical analysis of the latter position.


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Libertarianism, immigration, trespass, property rights

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