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Independent Migrants, Welfare, and the Law

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It’s a sad sign of the times that political candidates — even those who profess to be proponents of limited government — feel they have to one-up their rivals in showing how hard they would crack down on people who have the gall to come to the United States without the government’s permission. “Border security” is the odious buzzword of the day, and one of the worst things you can be called in the presidential race is “soft on immigration.” It’s a half-step from “soft on terrorism.” Many issues are jumbled up under the border-security rubric — the rule of law, national sovereignty, jobs, welfare, culture — but a most telling point is that there is far more concern about the southern border than the northern border. That speaks volumes. Politicians love to make populist appeals by creating alarm about immigrants. These days the focus is on so-called illegals — those who refused to wait in line for government papers — ...

Independent Migrants, Welfare, and the Law

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It’s a sad sign of the times that political candidates — even those who profess to be proponents of limited government — feel they have to one-up their rivals in showing how hard they would crack down on people who have the gall to come to the United States without the government’s permission. “Border security” is the odious buzzword of the day, and one of the worst things you can be called in the presidential race is “soft on immigration.” It’s a half-step from “soft on terrorism.” Many issues are jumbled up under the border-security rubric — the rule of law, national sovereignty, jobs, welfare, culture — but a most telling point is that there is far more concern about the southern border than the northern border. That speaks volumes. Politicians love to make populist ...

Compromise and Concealment-The Road to Defeat, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Twenty years ago, I was rummaging through the public library in my hometown of Laredo, Texas, and I came across four books entitled Essays on Liberty that had been published many years before by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. At the time, I was serving on the board of trustees for the local Legal Aid Society. I was also the local representative for the American Civil Liberties Union. The books consisted of hard-core, purist, uncompromising libertarian essays by such people as Leonard E. Read, Ludwig von Mises, Frank Chodorov, F.A. Harper, Henry Hazlitt, Dean Russell, Albert J. Nock, Paul Poirot, Frederic Bastiat, W.M Curtiss, Edmund A. Opitz, William Henry Chamberlin, Murray Rothbard, Bettina Bien, and many, many more. The essays absolutely bowled me over. I was thunderstruck by what I read. I felt as though someone ...