Immigration has reached a crisis primarily due to perverse incentives that the government has created between state welfare, and foreign interventionist policies and actions, by the United States. The Libertarian Party supports open and free migration in tandem with correcting these incentive problems.
People should be free to trade and travel so long as they do not violate the bodies or properties of others. However, they should not be subsidized by state welfare, state housing, nor should they be able to leverage the political process to enact a bigger government.
To help balance the conflict between those who want migration freedom and those concerned about dangerous persons coming over, the Libertarian Party calls for an end to birthright citizenship and reformation of the citizenship process.
Citizenship should have a paid model in similar fashion to other countries with investment-based citizenship programs, such as in Greece, Malta, and Turkey. Those who don’t wish to become citizens, or who cannot afford the process yet, should be free to trade and travel within the country. However, if they commit a crime, they should face harsher sanctions with potential deportation to balance out their lack of citizenship status risk.
Giving people the freedom to come to America, but holding them to a higher standard if they are not citizens yet, is the ethical way to encourage peaceful people to come over while shunning those who come to America for unscrupulous purposes.