There Is No Anarchy on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Jacob G. Hornberger January 4, 2023 Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial about Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s so-far failed bid to become Speaker of the House, which stated the following: "Voters elected a Republican House to … investigate the anarchy at the southern border." Anarchy? I thought “anarchy” meant the absence of government. Are the members of the Journal’s editorial board really claiming that there is no government along the U.S.-Mexico border? If so, then they need to pay a visit to the borderlands. They will discover that not only is there no anarchy, the entire borderlands have long been an immigration police state, which is about as far from anarchy as one can get. According to Wikipedia, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is charged with enforcing the federal government’s system of immigration controls, is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It has a workforce of over 58,000 employees. If the Journal’s editorial ...
Immigration Inanity by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2024 Immigration ranks among the top three domestic issues in the U.S. presidential race. Republicans accuse Democrat presidential candidate Angela Harris of having failed to "secure" the border in her supposed role as Border Czar. Democrats respond by saying that Harris was never appointed Border Czar and that she and her Democrat cohorts are as determined to "secure" the border as Trump and his Republican cohorts. Of course, all of this is nothing more than pure deadly and destructive political inanity — the same inanity we have heard in presidential campaigns for our entire lives. And as long as America remains committed to its socialist system of immigration controls, we will continue to hear this deadly and destructive political nonsense in every presidential campaign for the rest of our lives. For 34 years here at The Future of Freedom Foundation, I have been emphasizing a critically important point, one that Republicans, Democrats, and even rightwing libertarians simply do not ...
https://www.fff.org/comment/ed0698b.asp by Jacob G. Hornberger March 20, 2010 Thirty years ago, Democrats and Republicans sent 60,000 men from my generation to their deaths in an undeclared war in Southeast Asia. The rationale? To save people from the horrors of communism. Apparently communism is not so horrible anymore. Today, if Cuban citizens flee communist tyranny, the biggest danger they face is the United States government's forcible repatriation of Cuban refugees into communist tyranny. Of course, this is only one of the many ways that Democrats and Republicans abuse and mistreat Hispanics. For decades, they have jailed illegal immigrants for committing the heinous crime of crossing the border in search of work. They also arrest and prosecute American citizens for giving work to illegal immigrants. INS deportation raids on both homes and businesses leave nothing but tears and anguish in their wake.
End Immigration Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 22, 2014 I had an interesting debate against a conservative named Mark Krikorean on the Stossel show on the Fox Business Network on the subject of immigration. Krikorean heads up an organization called the Center for Immigration Studies, which calls for immigration controls. As I have long pointed out, I find conservatives to be fascinating people. One reason for my fascination is ...
Libertarianism and Open Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2015 The core principle of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle. It holds that it is morally wrong to initiate force against another person. That means no murder, rape, theft, burglary, trespass, or other acts of violence (or fraud) against others. Or another way to put it is: A person should be free to do whatever he wants in life, so ...
Apply the Free Market to Drugs and Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2008 While recently appearing as a guest on a radio talk show on the subject of immigration, a listener called to say, “We already have open borders in this country, as evidenced by the 13 million illegal aliens living here in the United States.” What he’s referring to, of course, is the black market, not legally functioning ...
Apply the Free Market to Drugs and Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2010 Apply the Free Market to Drugs and Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger While recently appearing as a guest on a radio talk show on the subject of immigration, a listener called to say, “We already have open borders in this country, as evidenced by the 13 million illegal aliens living here in the United States.” What he’s referring to, of course, is ...
Apply the Free Market to Drugs and Immigration by Future of Freedom Foundation March 16, 2010 Apply the Free Market to Drugs and Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger While recently appearing as a guest on a radio talk show on the subject of immigration, a listener called to say, “We already have open borders in this country, as evidenced by the 13 million illegal aliens living here in the United States.” What he’s referring to, of course, is ...
Let the Immigrants Stay by Sheldon Richman July 9, 2014 Virtually all commentary about the influx of unaccompanied Central American children into the United States, which some say could rise to 90,000 this year, misses the point: no government has the moral authority to capture these kids and send them back to the miserable situations they have escaped. This claim will strike many people as outrageous. So I ask, ...
Immigration Control Follies by Jacob G. Hornberger July 30, 2019 Sometimes the debate over the decades-long immigration crisis becomes amusing. In a July 26 editorial entitled “Trump’s Wall Gets America Nowhere on Border Security,” which takes the Trump administration to task for its cruel, brutal, destructive, and failed immigration enforcement measures, the New York Times writes, “There must be a way to house the migrants, ...
Needed: Libertarian Faith in Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger October 12, 2020 It goes without saying that if we are to achieve a genuinely free society, people need to have a deep and abiding faith in freedom. If people are convinced that freedom won’t work or if they have serious doubts as to whether freedom will really work, then the chances of achieving the free society are slim.
More Deaths from Immigration Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger March 29, 2023 I grew up on a farm on the Rio Grande outside Laredo, Texas. I lived almost half my life on the border. Ever since I was a kid, I have seen the chaos and crisis that comes with America’s socialist system of immigration controls. I’ve also seen the deaths that come with this dysfunctional system. Deaths from ...
