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America is Not a National Home

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NOTE: Our upcoming online Zoom conference "End Inflation and the Fed" kicks off on next Monday, October 3, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time with Richard Ebeling. Richard teaches economics at the Citadel and is co-host of FFF's weekly Internet show, the Libertarian Angle. He is former president of The Foundation for Economic Education and former Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College. He is also the author of FFF's book Monetary Central Planning and the State. I hope you will join us for a great talk on a critically important issue facing our country as well as a lively discussion. FREE! Register here. ****** One of the arguments that advocates of America’s immigration-control system use is that America is a national home, one in which U.S. officials have the authority to close the door and keep immigrants out. They compare this national home to a private homeowner’s right to keep people from entering his home.

Ron DeSantis and “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse”

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Republicans and conservatives are still celebrating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s immigration antic with respect to his shipping and dumping immigrants in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. They are convinced that what DeSantis did was a brilliant political move because it supposedly exposed the hypocrisy of rich, elite progressives/liberals/Democrats who say they favor immigrants but then won’t take them into their homes to live. There is no doubt that when it comes to immigration, progressives/liberals/Democrats are every bit as hypocritical as Republicans and conservatives, but not for the reason that DeSantis claims. But before focusing on the immigration hypocrisy of those on the left, let’s first focus on the immigration hypocrisy of those on the right, including those who are celebrating DeSantis’s act of clownish thuggery. One of the most popular mantras of the conservative movement and the Republican Party is “We need to remove waste, fraud, and abuse from government programs.” ...

Humorous Aspects of Immigration Anxiety

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I fully realize that it is difficult to find humor in an immigration system that continues to bring death, suffering, humiliation, and a police state to countless people. Nonetheless, even amidst the darkness surrounding America’s system of government-controlled borders, I just can’t help but laugh at some of funny aspects of the extreme immigration anxiety that strikes immigration-control advocates. Consider, for example, Florida Gov. Ron Santis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. They are totally bent out of shape over the immigration “crisis” along the U.S.-Mexico border.  Why is that funny? Because these two guys, as well as many other immigration-control advocates who suffer from extreme immigration anxiety, have absolutely no idea that it is their system of immigration controls that produces the crisis that causes them to get so bent out of shape. Without their immigration-control system, there would be no immigration crisis. Moreover, they also don’t realize that when they call on President Biden to enforce ...

The Clownish Thuggery of DeSantis and Abbott

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You can tell how Republicans view illegal immigrants by the clownish thuggery in which two of their most revered governors are currently engaged. After arresting (kidnapping might be a better term) immigrants for violating sacred federal laws against illegal entry, DeSantis and Abbott then have them involuntarily transported to Washington, D.C., or Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where the transporters ...

Conservatives Are Disasters on Civil Liberties

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The noted conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, who, according to Wikipedia, “was reportedly floated as a potential candidate for the Libertarian nomination in the 2008 presidential election,” provides an excellent example of how conservatives simply cannot be trusted when it comes to civil liberties and, equally important, how different conservatives are from libertarians. Take a look at ...