Founders On Immigration
I am re-posting this article in light of Castro kicking the bucket. and I had a few thoughts. When conversing with many Conservatives, I find that they are welcoming to those Cubans, who under great risk, flee the country for Florida. and in that light I wanted to make a few comments to this article.
1. Michelle Malkin was born just a few weeks after her parents came to the US. They were sponsored by a company. However, if we have immigrant quotas, and they had been beyond the quota, Michelle Malkin might well have been a Philippine. and the Philippine's is currently a hot bed of terrorism makers-big Islamic presence there. hmmm
2. If the founders felt strongly on this issue, why do restraints on who could come to the US directly contradict the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Commerce Clause?
3. Mexicans are almost universally Catholic. They are not muslim. Few are terrorists
4. Why are muslims considered a group until they become ex-muslim-then they are considered an individual? (ex: Bosch Fawstin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
5. why is it that the Conservatives are hugely vocal about the Constitution until it contradicts their desires. Then they willfully ignore it?
1. Michelle Malkin was born just a few weeks after her parents came to the US. They were sponsored by a company. However, if we have immigrant quotas, and they had been beyond the quota, Michelle Malkin might well have been a Philippine. and the Philippine's is currently a hot bed of terrorism makers-big Islamic presence there. hmmm
2. If the founders felt strongly on this issue, why do restraints on who could come to the US directly contradict the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Commerce Clause?
3. Mexicans are almost universally Catholic. They are not muslim. Few are terrorists
4. Why are muslims considered a group until they become ex-muslim-then they are considered an individual? (ex: Bosch Fawstin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
5. why is it that the Conservatives are hugely vocal about the Constitution until it contradicts their desires. Then they willfully ignore it?
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It's NOT just conservatives. Everyone is tempted to ignore the Constitution when it contradicts their desires. It exists to stand up to desires of the mob.
I think the issue of immigration will go away on its own because it's so easy to send value across borders. Human beings and physical parts get inspected and slowed down by custom, creating a hassle for developers, but the plans (CAD drawings, software, firmware) sail easily across borders. All the value is in the plans. People created the nation state because geographic barriers slowed the movement of people and materials, and people on opposite sides of those barriers had different values and interests. The conditions that created borders have disappeared from earth, and I see them mostly as a vestige of a time long gone.
It has been deliberately broken by politicians on both sides of the aisle. The left is looking for new voters, the right is looking for cheap labor. Both are exploiting, just for different goals. Neither is right.
(begins here)
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
... and many more.
It may be somewhat technically incorrect to call it "immigration" policy, but rather naturalization policy (and for that technicality I apologize if there was confusion) where naturalization is the process by which one becomes a Citizen of the United States.
A country without border controls is no longer a country it is chaos with a border. Just look at what is happening in the EU while being overrun with "refugees".
I don't care about whether the individual wanting in is rich or poor. I care about whether they want to become and American with the responsibilities and rights entailed.
George Soros for example, is rich indeed and I consider him very destructive to every society he has entered. He should never have been let into America and should be deported. Preferably to Russia who have an extradition warrant out on him as I recall.
To this extent, I disagree: Objectivism is a life-affirming philosophy. Most religions are based upon philosophies that are not. When a religion actively preaches the death of those who won't convert, I deem those that follow that religion uncivilized, a threat, and not welcome. Islam is both Attila and the Witch Doctor and those that practice it should not be allowed into the country. That is for the preservation of ALL in this country that reject such a philosophy of death.
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