In recent months, stories from both the legacy media and the independent media have continued to pile up on how undocumented foreign nationals—also known as “migrants” and “illegal aliens”—are able to take advantage of a vast network of taxpayer funded benefits in daycare, medical care, housing, and more. 

This video is an  English translation of Jesús Huerta de Soto’s comments about President Javier Milei’s address at Davos. This lecture was recorded during a session of the Master of Austrian Economics program at King Juan Carlos University:

For at least twenty years, the term “illegal alien” (or similar variations like “illegal immigrant”) has been the subject of a contentious debate between pro-immigation and anti-immigration activists. Over the past decade, the Left has increasingly managed to limit the use of the term “illegal” to refer to any migrant.

[From the  September-October 2023 issue of The Austrian.]

David Jarrett has been a longtime supporter of the Mises Institute and attended Mises’s NYU lectures in 1965, when they were held in Nicholas Hall. The building no longer stands, but the photos that David took one evening with his Leica M3 camera and APO-Summicron-M 90mm f/2 ASPH telephoto lens are still around. The negatives have been carefully guarded for decades, and now, David has generously donated them to the Mises Institute: