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Bidens on bikes!!!!!!!!!!
On 6/10/2021 9:55 AM, Radey Shouman wrote:
AMuzi writes: On 6/9/2021 3:41 PM, Radey Shouman wrote: AMuzi writes: On 6/9/2021 1:05 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 6/9/2021 1:39 PM, AMuzi wrote: [ ... ] Meanwhile the border is open. https://wflanews.iheart.com/featured...-county-woman/ CBP agents report that most of the staff has been reassigned to processing of illegals rather than actual border enforcement. There are virtually no deportations any longer. And those 'helpless children' are 90% single males between 15 and 21. These are not new problems and a complete solution is not possible but these are real problems: https://policetribune.com/advocate-f...rtation-order/ The border is not "open" any more than all bike shops are always "open." Bike shop and other burglaries happen despite reasonable security. Actually, your position on this is sort of flipped from your usual position. You've repeatedly argued against gun laws, saying "How is the prohibition on drugs working out?". For consistency, you should be saying we shouldn't have border security. Extend the argument and you get to 'we are not a nation'. That's too far over the line for me. No visas were required for aliens wishing to enter the US prior to 1918, were we not then a nation? That's insightful. So I thought about it. A lot has changed. In 1900, total US tax burden, local, county, state and federal was under 10% of GDP. One might bemoan the ethos 'work or starve' but that's how it was generally. As Milton Friedman famously concluded 'You can have a welfare state or open borders, but not both.' I think he makes a very good point. Add in other social/cultural changes and open borders are IMHO a clear and present danger. We have plenty of dangers here already. The cost of social welfare is one part of the puzzle, another one is just the increasing ability of states to micromanage people. When Fernando and Ysabel kicked all the Muslims and Jews out of Spain no one objected that they weren't allowed to do that -- they were sovereign. But the modern beaurocratic centralized approach of passports for all with a stamp for each coming and going was just not doable, so they had to rely on the Spanish Inquisition. It's true that detailed migration control has become a sine qua non for a state above the failed level, like a highway system or a working airport. It's useful to remember that those requirements are of a similar age. I'm not ready to advocate open borders, but I do object to the idea that they are literally unthinkable. Most of the world had them not all that long ago. The dole is more than a cash outlay by the taxpayers. It changes society. Where the benefits are large the effects can become pernicious. A perusal of any large city's overnight news will confirm that. And culture matters. Legal immigrants desirous of assimilating into this country (a country where one may become truly thoroughly USAian unlike some countries despite legal status) are IMHO fundamentally different from illegals in their experiences, assimilation, productivity, civic participation etc. Are there exceptions? Sure but I see that difference generally. USA more than any country in history has welcomed immigrants and we have flourished. I am not opposed to immigration at all. I am opposed to slavery, child trafficking, criminals and foreign agents meandering across our borders at will. Which by the way is as prevalent in airports as in the Arizona desert, (just different groups with more or less resources). -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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