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The Old Testament on Immigration

It goes without saying that a passport regime such as we have today is unbiblical, in the sense that nothing like it is endorsed by either the Old or the New Testaments. Comprehensive control of entry...

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“I Was a Stranger and You Took Me In…”

That Christian churches have been a force for change at many times in history, no one can deny. Concerning how often and how important, there is a huge range of opinion. Probably the most ardent...

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The Old Testament on Immigration: Follow-Up

My post The Old Testament on Immigration was discussed at Reddit. Briefly. Here’s the initial comment: This is filled with inaccuracies about OT law. One example: “In walking through the grainfields...

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“The Christian Perspective on Immigration”

I was struck by the beginning of this article published at the website of the anti-immigration group, Center for Immigration Studies: What are They Thinking: A Look at the Roman Catholic “Doctrine” on...

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Christianity vs. citizenism

In my most recent post, I wrote the following passage: I am certainly no citizenist myself. In fact, for purposes of the present post, I’d rather not admit what my attitude to citizenism as a...

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Open Borders Questionnare: Nathan Smith’s answers

This post is intended to initiate a “tournament” in which regular bloggers at Open Borders: The Case as well as guest bloggers will answer a brief but challenging questionnaire. Unsolicited submissions...

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My marching orders

C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, wrote: People say, “The Church ought to give us a lead.” That is true if they mean it in the right way, but false if they mean it in the wrong way. By the Church they...

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Migration and Christianity

When I wrote Principles of a Free Society, I hinted at a Christian case for open borders: American Christianity has not been only a conservative force, fending off bad foreign ideas and keeping America...

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More on immigration and the Bible

Post by Nathan Smith (regular blogger for the site, joined April 2012). See: all posts by Nathan Smith Nathan Smith's personal statement From my reading of the Old Testament, it’s quite clear that the...

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A Biblical Frame for Immigration Liberalization

This is a repost from Paul’s blog Quitting Providence. The original post is here. I was reading this Atlantic write-up of the excellent website Open Borders: The Case and I was surprised when the...

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Social conservatism and attitudes to immigration

A little while ago, I got into a debate with Vipul Naik over the link between social conservatism and open borders. My hypothesis was that social conservatives would oppose open borders because they...

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The pope rails against “an economy of exclusion” (and I tentatively like it)

Many free market economists have taken umbrage at the pope’s seeming attack on free market economics. My perspective is quite different. Perhaps I have an advantage here, being both a free-market...

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Why don’t Christians care more about open borders?

We’ve blogged a fair bit in the past about how Christianity demands open borders. It doesn’t get more simple than “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and...

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Will Immigration Advocacy Contribute to the Competitiveness of Churches?

So my recent post The Coming Catholic Movement for Freedom of Migration seems to be convincing some people. Not convincing people to support open borders, but convincing people that the Catholic Church...

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Support for open borders is a fundamental tenet of libertarianism, and David...

I live in Virginia, where unknown challenger David Brat just recently made US national news as a political giant-killer, toppling Eric Cantor from his Congressional seat and running on a vehemently...

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What Open Borders Can Learn from the Abolition of Slavery

I occasionally hear people linking gay marriage and open borders. Thus, Jose Antonio Vargas (whom I wrote about here and here) says: We are fighting for more than immigration reform. We are fighting...

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Terror in Paris and Open Borders

My recent exchange with Bryan Caplan about tolerance (see here, here and here) suddenly seems terribly topical in light of events in France last month, where 12 people were killed in a murderous attack...

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