What would it be like if the United States had open borders? If anyone could just fly to the United States and there were no immigration officers? You would just get out of the airplane, get your bags, and jump into your Uber. No passport, no nothing, just Open Borders. This is the scenario that our guest Bryan Caplan proposes with his book Open Border.

Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author.

He has written The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders.

Byan blogs for EconLog, he has published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, and appeared on ABC, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.

We speak the book Open Borders, written by Bryan Caplan, and illustrated by Zach Weinersmith. In this graphic nonfiction novel, they make a case for unrestricted immigration to the United States.

American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow into the U.S.

Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens.

But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the immigration debate: He argues that opening all borders could eliminate absolute poverty worldwide and usher in a booming worldwide economy—greatly benefiting humanity.

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