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Where are Open Borders in the Presidential Race?

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Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, immigration is not a big burning issue in the presidential race. There is a simple reason for that: Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden believe in America’s system of immigration controls. Their only difference between them is over the enforcement measures that come with that system. Alas, needless to say, that is also the position of the mainstream media. That’s why there has been no pushback on immigration in the presidential race. Don’t expect any, especially in the remaining presidential debates. There is a simple reason for America’s decades-long crisis in immigration. America’s system of immigration controls is based on the socialist principle of central planning. As everyone in socialist countries will attest, central planning produces crises. A good term for such crises is the one that Ludwig von Mises applied to the results of central planning: “planned chaos.” What better term to describe America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis?

Who Should Run the Country?

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In one line in an editorial today, the Los Angeles Times has summed up everything that is wrong with America today. The editorial is about Trump’s early return to the White House after his hospital stay for treatment for Covid-19. That’s not the issue I wish to address. I wish to focus on this line that the Times uses to criticize Trump: President Trump returned to the White House Monday …and was raring to go back to the critical work of running the country.  That’s it. Right there in one small phrase the Times sums up everything that is wrong with the country. The assumption, of course, is that the president — and to a larger extent the government — should be “running the country.” That is the assumption that has guided the United States for more than 100 years, since at least the time of the presidential regime of ...

Socialism, American Style, Part 6

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 I grew up on a farm on the Rio Grande just outside Laredo, Texas, a city that is situated on the U.S.-Mexico border. I lived practically half my life in Texas. Throughout that time, I witnessed an immigration crisis, one that is still ongoing today. There is a simple reason for this never-ending crisis: America’s system of immigration controls is a socialist system, and socialism always produces crises. America’s immigration system is based on the socialist principle of central planning. The government plans in a top-down, command-and-control fashion the movements of millions of people. It decides how many total immigrants will be permitted to enter the United States and how many immigrants may come from each foreign country. It also decides the qualifications and credentials for people wishing to immigrate to the United States. It determines how many immigrants are ...