In the United States today we accept that we have the right to live wherever we want to. This was not always the case. Consider that San Marino, California had deed restrictions against Jews or Blacks owning property that lasted into the 1960’s. The Supreme Court finally ruled in 1935 that California could not restrict the migration of “Okies”. Why is it wrong to restrict where someone lives within our country but all right to restrict where they choose to live in the world. It is not. People should have the right to live wherever they choose in the world as long as they don’t become a burden on the people already living there.
It is wrong that the luck of your place of birth should be the major determinant of how your life turns out. Consider two children born on the same day ten miles apart one in Brownville, Texas and the other in Matamoras, Mexico. Because of the luck of what Warren Buffet called the “Uterine Lottery” the probability of a happy and prosperous life is much higher for the girl born in Brownville. And the worst thing is that the parents of the child born in Matamoras can legally do very little about it. This is a great injustice that must be corrected.
It is wrong to say that if someone is born in a certain set of circumstances they are doomed to live their live under those circumstances. People have the right to change those circumstances. Governments that restrict that right are performing an illegal act.
It was wrong that the Berlin Wall was built to keep East Germans from exercising their right to migrate. How then can any wall that keeps people from migrating be legal?
There are no “Illegal Immigrants” anywhere in the world. The right to migrate is a basic human right and cannot legally be taken away by a government or any other entity.
In future article we will deal with the practical implications of this radical idea whose time has come.
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