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Trump’s Use of Immigration Controls to Destroy Free Speech

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Libertarian supporters of an “Ellis Island” type of immigration-control system are receiving a lesson in the fallacies of their system. They imagine an immigration-control system in which the federal government is vetting every foreigner and rejecting only the few “bad” ones. What they fail to understand is that once federal officials are given the power to determine who comes into the United States, ...

Trump’s Viciousness Against the Mexican People

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For many decades, in their laments against illegal immigrants from Mexico, conservatives have repeatedly exclaimed, “Why doesn’t Mexico just get its economic house in order so that its citizens don’t have to ‘invade’ the United States to better their lives through labor?” While economic conditions in Mexico are not desperate, like in Cuba or Venezuela, Mexico has always been — and continues to ...

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