Open Boarders is the most humane and wealth-generating policy. It’s Free Trade for labor, with all the same economic benefits.
Arguments against Open Borders hinge on a collectivist view of property ownership.
Discussion
I thought the argument against open borders was based on the free rider problem of social welfare systems.
Yes. Social welfare is a Statist/collectivist concept.
So you're saying that illegal immigration impedes the ability of a society to build collective capital.
What is collective capital?
The primary role of modern governments is to act as insurance: social security, unemployment insurance, welfare, ect. These are the collective pools of capital ($) that individuals pay into. As unproductive illegals make claims on benefits that they did not contribute to; they overload and crash the system. It's basically the Cloward - Piven strategy.
If people want to buy insurance, they should be free to do so. If people want not to buy insurance, they should be free to abstain. Insurance companies ought to compete for customers based on services and costs.
The State is that entity which funds its operations by coercing the labor of its subjects. It is not necessary for an insurance provider to also hold a territorial monopoly on violence.
I'm not going to disagree with you. This book is probably the best descriptor of transitioning to a private insurance model: https://mises.org/library/private-production-defense
Some of the arguments do, but others hinge on culture and human capital retention and transmission across generation in existing communities.
Other arguments hinge on government payouts to crossers (more fiat printing), the non-taxable income many crossers generate, and remittances back across the border.
Wealth-generating for who?
1) Employers
2) Those crossing the border
3) Who else?
This sounds like it might rest on a Libertarian+David Ricardo foundation, but the problem with Ricardianism is that comparative advantage isn’t an advantage anymore when foreign nations control your Pharma, weapons, manufacturing, etc. supply lines.
And when cheaper labor drains the expertise/human capital of a community 20 years hence (e.g. now), getting back the skills to build again takes 2 generations.
I would be pro open borders if there was no social security payed by taxes.
In Chile most venezuelans came here to work and have a better life. But a lot of them are importing new kinds of crimes never seen before in the country and crowding the jails (a roof and 3 meals a day financed by the honest people)