Ep. 416 Adam Haman and Bob Murphy Respond to Jacob Hornberger on Immigration
Adam Haman returns, this time to discuss Jacob Hornberger’s recent video, where he critiques the Haman/Murphy/Dave Smith takes on immigration.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this conversation.
- Jacob Hornberger’s critique of Haman/Murphy/Smith.
- The SoHo Forum immigration debate between Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh. Adam and Bob’s original analysis of the SoHo Forum immigration debate. Bob’s breakdown of it on Human Action podcast. Bob’s interview of Nowrasteh on the debate.
- The HamanNature substack.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
Bob, your comments at the beginning of the episode seem to indicate that you think that foreigners can just come here as they please, just like the hypothetical brother living on the border. Surely you know that’s not how it works, right? You cannot just walk or fly in. You need to beg for permission, which is often not granted for arbitrary reasons.
Also I don’t understand this fascination with Hoppe’s “invitation” stuff. Nobody invited me to move to Las Vegas from Chicago. I did not ask anyone’s permission. I just did it. We accept this as perfectly normal and acceptable, yet everybody loses their minds when it is a “country” border vs a city or state border. Why?
Still listening to the episode – might have more comments later.
Perfect answer to Adam asking about a giant mass of people showing up – but then Adam brings up the taxpayers having been aggressed against in order to fund the roads those new people are using. Ok, so what? They were aggressed against whether or not new people show up. The new people have nothing to do with anything.