Today the Libertarian Party issued a press release with views on immigration from its chair, Mark Hinkle: Libertarian Chair: Time to Re-Legalize Immigration.
The statement makes a number of salient points, but it boils down to this: “Immigrants come here to work. Anyone who works and produces makes others better off.”
What it all points to is the fact that we need serious immigration reform not the continuation of the current policies that ignores reality and creates new problems instead of solving them.
Moreover it points to the following excellent flowchart from Reason that was published two-years ago that underscores the fundamental problems of out current immigration policy: click. If you read through the whole thing you will understand why Hinkle is calling for immigration to be “re-legalize[d].”
