This page lists audio of podcasts and interviews related to immigration and open borders. This only includes pure audio links — please see the video page for video links. Links are provided both to the MP3 files and to corresponding pages if these are maintained outside of the Open Borders site.
- Nathan Smith appeared on Free Talk Live on March 16, 2014 (Open Borders Day) to discuss myriad issues related to migration. The full discussion can be heard here.
- John Lee appeared on Free Talk Live on May 9, 2013 to talk about the pros and cons of open borders. The full interview can be heard here.
- Alex Tabarrok appeared on a Canadian radio show to talk about the open borders movement. The downloadable podcast is here. Tabarrok blogs about his appearance here at the Marginal Revolution blog.
- Bryan Caplan‘s EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts on immigration: EconTalk page here, downloadable MP3 here. The EconTalk page features a full transcript and related links.
- Michael Clemens’ EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts on aid, migration, and poverty: EconTalk page here, downloadable MP3 here. The EconTalk page features a full transcript and related links.
- Alex Nowrasteh and others discuss free migration to the US in the Free Thoughts episode You Are Now Free to Move About the Planet. Also related is the live interaction with audience on the topic of Millennials and Immigration at the 2014 Students for Liberty conference (alternate link).
- A talk radio interview of David Henderson on May 29, 2007, on KION-AM 1460 can be downloaded here (MP3). The MP3 has been edited for clarity and is provided with permission from David Henderson and KION-AM 1460. The interview touches upon a number of immigration-related issues:
- 0:00 – 3:20: The overall case for immigration in terms of benefits to immigrant-receiving countries and the analogy between immigration and trade.
- 3:20 – 5:25: Discussion of the suppression of wages of natives argument against immigration, specifically US-specific suppression of wages of natives. The discussion references Benjamin Powell, George Borjas, and Bryan Caplan.
- 5:25 – 8:30: Discussion of crime committed by immigrants. Henderson uses this discussion to discuss how keyhole solutions can tackle the problems created by immigration.
- 8:30 – 10:00: Discussion of the futility of building a wall between the US and Mexico to keep immigrants out.
- 10:00 – 10:45: Discussion of the welfare/fiscal burden objection argument against immigration.
- 10:45 – 11:35: Discussion of the effect of remittances on the currency of the immigrant-receiving country.
- 11:35 – 13:20: Some discussion related to the meaning of citizenship and voting privileges. See also foreign control and loss of sovereignty.