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Welfare is one factor that distorts incentives. My broader point was that migration in a free society does not operate at the level of "countries" at all.I know I'm a bit late on this, but in our ideal world, there wouldn't be any welfare programs that incentive the mass migrations we're seeing rn
As in, welfare is an answer to the question of why people move, but the point I made was that the more important question is who decides entry. Under statist conditions, a centralized policy is imposed on millions of unwilling property owners. Under a free system, every owner sets their own terms, be that individually or in association.
So even if large numbers of people want to move, there is no legitimate mechanism by which they can be collectively imposed on others, for a free society has no "border policy" to capture and no mechanism to override a population. The state's structure of control is the reason why migration is a political problem in the first place.