Why We Need Border Control

Why We Need Border Control
U.S. Border Patrol agents open a door in the U.S.-Mexico Border fence during an “Opening the Door of Hope” event in San Diego, Calif., on April 30, 2016. John Moore/Getty Images
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Commentary

This is a hard article for me to write. It involves a career-long error of believing in an open border, a position I pushed in writing and speaking. I now completely reject that view. It seems like I have an intellectual and public responsibility to explain my change of mind.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]