Current liberal democratic state policies towards irregular migrants is characterized by a reluctance to recognize little more than irregular migrants’ right to privacy and procedural justice.1 This is not to say that liberal democracies provide no assistance to irregular migrants in need; only that they do not think themselves obliged by justice to do so, given the migrants’ unauthorized presence on the state’s territory.2 NGOs and other proponents of irregular migrants’ rights dispute this view. Rather they maintain, with reference to everyone’s human right to have certain basic needs met, that the state is obliged by justice to provide irregular migrants in need with basic goods and services, such as housing, food, clothes, education and palliative healthcare, despite their unauthorized presence on the state territory.