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America, Love It or Leave It!

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President Trump’s rant against four members of Congress, all of whom are American citizens, in which he told them to return to their “crime-infested” countries, brings to mind the rant that conservatives have long used against anyone who disagrees with the policies or programs of the U.S. government: “America, love it or leave it!” Anyone who lived during the Vietnam War era will recall that this was a favorite refrain of conservatives against anyone who opposed the war. The opponents of the war were accused of hating America and were often told that since they obviously didn’t love their country, they should move to North Vietnam or some other communist country. We libertarians have often heard this refrain or a variation of it simply because we oppose the welfare-warfare state way of life that both conservatives and liberals have foisted upon our land. For decades, conservatives have accused libertarians of hating America and being ungrateful for all the good things that ...

Another Statist Immigration “Solution”

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In a New York Times op-ed today, Mexican businessman Ricardo B. Salinas is endorsing what he calls a "humane" alternative to President Trump’s cruel and brutal enforcement of America’s system of immigration controls: a “Marshall Plan” for Latin America! He says that it is the “right way” to solve America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis. According to Salinas, if the U.S. government will just use the IRS to plunder and loot the American people even more than it already is doing so, the U.S. government will be able to send hundreds of millions of dollars to Latin American regimes, which will use the money to bring economic vitality to their countries, which will cause Latin Americans to stay home instead of coming to the United States for jobs. Voila! Immigration crisis over!  No more death, suffering, and immigration police state along the border. Just like that! Why, that’s just ingenious!

Recent Silence from Libertarians Who Favor Immigration Controls

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It’s been a while since I have seen any articles by libertarians who support America’s system of immigration controls. I can’t help but wonder whether the reason for that is the immigration system’s massive death and suffering that has recently been reported by the mainstream media. After all, any system that produces massive death and suffering is obviously not an easy sell. As I have long pointed out, libertarian advocates of immigration controls always, without exception, fail to address a big problem with a system of immigration controls: enforcement. Such libertarians always limit their arguments for joining up with the statists on this particular issue by relying on esoterica, such as by arguing that everyone in the world would flood into the United States, go on welfare, and force Americans to learn communism, Islam, or Spanish. In doing this, they ignore the fact that in order for the government to prevent people from illegally entering the United States, the government ...

Donald Trump, Immigration Central Planner

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Republicans are celebrating President Trump for his immigration proposal, which includes, among other things, admitting into the United State more highly skilled and educated foreigners. Wow! Why hasn’t anyone thought of that before now? Just think: America’s decades-long, ongoing immigration crisis is going to finally disappear because Donald Trump, central planner, has finally come up with his immigration plan. At ...

Should Libertarians Support a Police State?

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A system of immigration controls inevitably entails the destruction of a free society. That’s because of the enforcement measures that inevitably come with immigration controls, just as thunder inevitably comes with lightning. Immigration enforcement measures always and inevitably bring into existence an immigration police state, which, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, is the opposite of a free ...