Posted on 06/07/2007 1:26:19 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Just in time for summer, the Senate is heating things up with immigration reform. The bill it's debating aims to shore up border security and start some 12 million illegal aliens on the path to citizenship. Despite passionate disagreement, voices across the political spectrum concur on two points: They insist the federal government should do something about immigration, and they're sure immigrants threaten American jobs.
People assert these claims as though they're self-evident. But they aren't, as even a basic understanding of the US Constitution and the principles of economics shows. And that means most of the premises about immigration are confused.
Real reform must build on the secure foundation of constitutional and economic truth – not on political talking points.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
They say there is no Constitutional authorization for controlling the borders. That is lunatic fringe thinking:
Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”
This debate seems to divide people into two groups: Those who believe in the concept of the USA as a nation, and those who do not.
“Congress began barring entry into the nation in 1875 with prostitutes and convicts.” Once the prostitutes and convicts took over the congress in 2006 they opened the floodgates.
It’s amazing how crappy the CSM has become. It used to be credible.
"To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
Naturalisation. Doesn't get much more explicit than that, does it?
Not only the CS Monitor, but this is actually the standard, stock-in-fare libertarian argument that the libertarians on FR keep claiming that libertarians never make. Of course, I've heard and seen the argument before from many libertarians, but now we've got a ready example in print to reference.
Some things should be self evident, such as the right of a government to prevent unauthorized entry.
Free immigration advocates should think of the self destructive nature of such a policy. For example if we opened the borders, China could send over 400 million people and declare the U.S. to be a state of China. Then they could round up liberals and use them for organ transplants.
Ditto that!
Why have a country at all?
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They'd probably prefer people who had usable organs to transplant. Such as brains.
“It’s amazing how crappy the CSM has become. It used to be credible.”
Last year they were one of the few outlets giving deep analysis to the immigration bill.
But if this one is true, they better tell this all to the National Chamber of Commerce and other business lobbies, because they are needlessly spending 10’s of millions of dollars on “lobbying” for something that will not return savings in depressed wages. Breach of fiduciary duty!!
Bttt!
In July of 1984 the Wall Street Journal published an editorial headlined “In Praise of Huddled Masses” in which it advocated “a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders” calling for the abolition of all immigration controls. What we got was the 1986 bill, which has turned out to not be that much different.
Too funny! And under the current legislation of course, they are once again allowing in the prostitutes and convicts.
>>Long on assertion and emotion, short on actual proof of the “un-Constitutionality” of restricting illegal immigration.<<
Exactly. Note the columnists’ verbal slight of hand; they’re talking about immigration in general, but the debate, as we all know, is about illegal immigration. It’s about aliens who enter our country illegally, and amnesty, financial benefits and, ultimately, citizenship being offered to them by politicians with no more thought than a grocery store hands out free samples.
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Before it’s too late!!
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'Those who don't' fits the description of the one-worlders. Pretending to haggle over an immigration bill when they really don't want one in the first place. Let the haggling continue until the outer limits of illegal immigration has been reached -- just in time to co-incide with the official announcement of the the North American Union.
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