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Recently, off the shores of Miami, Florida, the American people were exposed to the ugly side of immigration laws-the forcible repatriation of illegal immigrants to their country of origin. Television viewers watched in horror as U.S. Coast Guard officials, using water cannons and pepper spray, attacked Cuban refugees in rafts who had fled their homeland and who were attempting to emigrate to the United States. The Coast Guard's objective was to capture the refugees and forcibly return them to Cuba before they could set foot on American shores.
Outrage immediately broke out among the Cuban-American community in Miami over our government's mistreatment of the refugees. What many people fail to recognize, however, is that our government's attempt to capture and repatriate the Cuban refugees is the nasty, ugly, necessary, integral part of immigration laws themselves.
In the ideal world of those Americans who oppose the libertarian concept of open borders, there would be a 50-foot wall all around America, manned and patrolled by an enormous army of well-armed military troops prepared to do whatever is necessary to prevent any foreigner from getting through. Additionally, in their minds they envision a federal planning agency that finally, after decades of planned chaos in the area of immigration, consists of bureaucrats who have the knowledge and expertise to come up with a perfect immigration central plan in which no one crosses the border and enters the United States without governmental permission.
The deep fear of such people is that under a libertarian system of open borders, billions of foreign citizens would suddenly flood into the United States, go on welfare, become American citizens, destroy American culture, steal jobs, rape Americans, take over the the federal government, and appoint federal judges who would enforce Sharia law rather than the ...
