Ron Paul has more of a history as a libertarian than as a republican. He only took on the border security issue for a short time, and probably because he came to the realization that congress would not embrace the entire libertarian strategy that would remove incentive for people to come here. His theory was that if you took the bennies away, the flow of people would decrease, and thus no need for enforcement.
I like a lot of what he says, but I also think he's thoroughly misguided on the border/enforcement issue. I also don't believe he has a chance in hell of getting anywhere in the next election.
I should have added, that hard core libertarians are Open borders proponents.
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