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Trump, FDR, and the Plight of Refugees under Immigration Controls

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Republican President Trump’s use of tear gas to prevent foreign citizens from entering the United States to claim refugee status under U.S. law brings to mind that Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt did the same thing in the 1930s. Roosevelt, of course, is widely known among both Republicans and Democrats as a great humanitarian and a lover of the poor, needy, and disadvantaged. Unfortunately, those traits did not manifest themselves in FDR’s decision to use America’s system of immigration controls to prevent German Jews from entering the United States during the Adolf Hitler regime. Let’s first place things in a historical context. The United States was founded as a limited-government republic, which is a governmental structure that is completely opposite to a national-security state governmental structure, which Americans live under today. Under the republic type of governmental system, there was no Pentagon, military-industrial complex, CIA, or NSA. That was how our American ancestors wanted it. If they had been told that the Constitution was ...

Drug-War and Immigrant-War Tyranny

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Ludwig von Mises pointed out that one government intervention inevitably leads to more government interventions. The reason is that the first intervention inevitably causes a crisis. Rather than repeal the original intervention, public officials double down by enacting a new intervention to fix the crisis caused by the first intervention. The second intervention, however, doesn’t fix the crisis but instead makes it worse, which then causes public officials to enact a third intervention, and a fourth, a fifth, and more. At the end of this interventionist road is a full-fledged police state, a type of society in which the freedom and privacy of the citizenry has been destroyed. No better example of this phenomenon could be found than the war on drugs and the war on immigrants, which are actually interrelated. Both of these programs are decades-long, both of them have caused ongoing, never-ending crises, and they are both characterized by a endless series ...

Election Day: Whoop Dee Doo!

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Notwithstanding all the heated pronouncements in the mainstream press and among the Republican and Democrat political machines, nothing is going to change as a result of today’s election. There is a simple reason for that: There isn’t really any difference between Democrats and Republicans, at least not in a fundamental sense. The election is about power and money. That’s what the two political parties are fighting over. In fact, I say two parties but actually it’s one party that is divided into two wings, the Democrats and the Republicans, much like the NFL is divided into two conferences. One league, two wings. One party, two wings. We can call the Democrat-Republican Party the Welfare-Warfare Party. That’s because they both support and defend the concept of a welfare state and a warfare state. Their “differences” involve minor variations in how their welfare-warfare state should be managed and controlled. But such “differences” are really just minor distinctions without substantive difference. Consider, for example, Medicare. ...

Advancing Liberty by Adhering to Principle

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The following is a shortened, non-verbatim version of a talk I recently delivered to the Tidewater, Virginia, Libertarian Party: The great German thinker Johann Goethe lived during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Goethe stated: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Although those words were expressed back then, they perfectly capture the plight ...