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The Mexican Heritage in the American Southwest

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For decades, the federal government has waged war against Mexican immigrants attempting to enter the United States. They have shot and killed them in violent confrontations. They have jailed them in detention centers. They have spent millions of dollars building a fortified wall along the California-Mexico border. They have criminalized the hiring of undocumented workers. They have raided homes and businesses in search of people to deport. Central to this decades-long policy, of course, is a basic premise: that it would be a bad thing to have Mexicans freely coming into the United States. Is such a premise valid? If not, then wouldn't it be much more rational and humane to simply end the war on immigrants and open the borders to the free movements of goods and people? A review of the Mexican heritage ...

Open Borders: A Gift from the Founders

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Americans are a fortunate people. More than 200 years ago, our Founding Fathers had the wisdom and foresight to protect us from the government officials of today. The Framers of the Constitution ensured that the respective states of the Union would be forever prohibited from implementing trade restrictions and immigration controls against one another. The result has been the largest free-trade and free-movement zone in history. We take it for granted, but it is impossible to overstate the benefits of open borders within the United States. It is a marvelous thing that we Americans can travel into any state we wish without encountering a state immigration or customs official at the border. When we travel on the highways, oftentimes the only indication that we have crossed a state border is a highway sign welcoming us to ...

End the Immigration War and Open the Borders

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With much fanfare, the federal government recently announced it had smashed the largest ever alien-smuggling ring, which allegedly brought thousands of Indians and other foreigners into the United States for $20,000 a head. In announcing the results of the yearlong operation, code-named "Operation Seek and Keep," Attorney General Janet Reno declared: "Let all those who flout the nation's immigration laws be warned: We plan to take swift and decisive action against you." To match the warlike rhetoric, the feds boasted of new encroachments on civil liberties. In the crackdown, the Immigration and Naturalization Service used new authority, granted under the 1996 immigration law, to intercept electronic communications, monitoring 35,000-plus calls. Also, for the first time, federal prosecutors used money-laundering statutes to smash an alien smuggling operation and seize assets. Apparently, all's fair when it ...