Lone Wanderer
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I used to take a stance like this, but even in the absence of a welfare state, you run across a Constitutional issue due to our citizenship by birth policy. Open borders mean people can show up and have kids here that become citizens automatically. Even with no welfare state, that can be problematic over time. We need a jus sanguinis policy instead of a jus soli one for open borders to be truly feasible.Regardless, I'm actually for no-passport open borders....If you're a citizen of country X, you can have legit non-counterfeitable ID to prove that you're home is there...100% freedom of travel.
One non-nogotiable proviso: No welfare state, at any level...Then anyone who came to our shores would either have the means to support themselves, or get a job and do so.....You want to be a permanent citizen, that's another set of criteria to meet.