text: No, not an *absolute* right.  
  
  Both the right of persons to migrate to sustain their lives and their families, and of countries to regulate its borders and control of immigration are not absolute rights, at leas in Catholic moral and social teaching.  What is absolute is the equality of all peoples and the call to commitment to the common good.  This means that counties can regulate their borders, but must do it with mercy and justice.  A country cannot, morally, choose *only* to provide for its own people.  
  
  An example, if East Germany had an absolute right to control its borders, then the Berlin Wall and the "Wall of Death" along the Inner German Boundary would be just fine, along with the Vopos shooting anyone seeking freedom.  Is that your position?