Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 19 of Chandran Kukathas’s excellent 2021 book, Immigration and Freedom:

Immigration control is not just about policing boundary crossing; it is in fact about managing, along with population movement, the rights, the status, and even identities of people within as well as outside the borders of the state.

DBx: Indeed so.

All who embrace firmly and fondly the sentiment “Don’t tread on me” must, to be principled, also object to – or at least be deeply skeptical of – restrictions on immigration and on the peaceful activities that immigrants are allowed to engage in.