There it was, right under the May 24 headline that announced \u201cStudent meth use declines\u201d — based on the always reliable CDC methodology of simply asking teen-agers how many of them have been breaking the law.<\/p>\n
(I\u2019m told a survey using the same \u201cWhy would they lie?\u201d methodology revealed more than 20 percent of Clark County teen-age pregnancies result in virgin births, but that this equally reliable result was suppressed, for some reason.)<\/p>\n
Further down the page, the headline which provides our topic for today read: \u201cMarchers want legality for undocumented teens.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few dozen local college kids were out to express their outrage that another amnesty for illegal aliens (the last one was in 1986) — a \u201cDREAM Act\u201d that would have allowed illegals brought to this country by their parents when they were 15 or younger to \u201cmove toward legality\u201d — failed in the U.S. Senate last year, 52-44, after voters got wind of what they were up to.<\/p>\n
The marchers say they want these anchor babies to be given a \u201cpath to legal status.\u201d They\u2019ve already got one: Go back to your U.S. embassy or consulate in Mexico or Guatemala or El Salvador and fill out your immigration forms and wait your turn.<\/p>\n
The protesters aren\u2019t going to settle for that, of course, because even if Congress were to quadruple the number of legal immigrants admitted each year — which would be a huge actual \u201creform\u201d — it still wouldn\u2019t make much sense for them to add \u201cAnd a bunch of quasi-literate Mexican Indians with no valuable job skills who\u2019ve snuck into this country illegally and committed fraud and identity theft every day for years can go right to the head of the line.\u201d<\/p>\n
What those who prefer the simpering euphemism \u201cundocumented\u201d really want is not \u201creform\u201d but amnesty — for the laws violated by these invaders to be treated as though they never existed.<\/p>\n
The question they don\u2019t want to answer is how they would compensate all the doctors and artisans and chemical engineers — many of them literate and fluent in English — who have been patiently waiting their turn in the U.S. immigration line in Bosnia and Belarus and Burundi, in India and Iran and Thailand and Tasmania. Their places in line — usurped without compensation — surely have cash value. Why should we be complicit in the theft of THEIR dreams?<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re here!\u201d the scofflaws shout. \u201cYou have to acknowledge reality! You can\u2019t round up and deport millions of people!\u201d<\/p>\n
Wow. Should we have told the French in 1943 \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we can do; the undocumented Guest Germans are already here!\u201d? What if instead of fighting the battle of Edington King Alfred had told the Britons \u201cWe can\u2019t round up all these Danes and deport them! Live with the reality; learn to speak Danish; the undocumented GuestDanes are already here!\u201d?<\/p>\n
As a test of how sensible this construction really is, let\u2019s adapt the same approach to another modern crime and see how it plays out:<\/p>\n
\u201cThese women are already inseminated! It\u2019s not going to help them now to imprison this knifepoint multiple rapist just because you\u2019ve caught him! What he needs is a path to legal status. And by the way, we find the term \u2018rapist\u2019 to be hateful and discriminatory; it hurts our ears. From now on you must refer to these men with unconventional dating habits as \u2018inconsiderate lovers.\u2019 Under our \u2018Inconsiderate Lovers\u2019 DREAM Act\u2019 we\u2019d allow these perpetrators to send a mail-order \u2018marriage certificate\u2019 and a $500 check to each victim, and promise never to do it again, whereupon we\u2019d shake their hands and send them on their merry way, also providing them a list of the home addresses of attractive local women who live alone. Of course, if they break their promises and offend again, that\u2019ll be a serious matter, requiring … another amnesty in about twenty years! Ha Ha!\u201d<\/p>\n
Libertarians often chide me for taking a position other than the supposed \u201cproper\u201d Libertarian position on immigration, which (they assert) calls for open borders and no restrictions on the movement of peoples, whatever.<\/p>\n
I believe they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n
Have these gentle souls never seen the barrios that spring up on the hillsides outside many a Central and South American city — thousands of people living in cardboard packing crates and hovels made of old plastic sheeting, drawing water from a polluted common well, raw sewage flowing down the middle of the \u201cstreets\u201d? Would they like a few million such souls to start trooping into this country and setting up shop outside New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Stockton and Baton Rouge? What will our reliable liberals then demand? That we build these people proper public housing, of course, with indoor hot and cold running water, central heat and air conditioning, color televisions, all at taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n
Are you nuts?<\/p>\n
I submit that \u201cimmigration control\u201d is perfectly Libertarian, a necessary extension of the \u201cright not to associate.\u201d It starts with the gang of hoboes showing up at your front door, demanding to move in with you and decide \u2018by majority vote\u201d who gets to eat all the food out of your refrigerator. You have the right — the duty to your family, unless you\u2019re nuts — to turn them away. So why can\u2019t you delegate that right?<\/p>\n
Imagine with me that a few hundred Libertarians, happening across a couple of billionaires who see things our way, were allowed to establish a free Republic of New Columbia by buying half a county somewhere on the Pacific coast of Oregon. (The statists-in-charge will never allow this, but let\u2019s pretend.)<\/p>\n
We send constructive notice to all the former county, state, and federal authorities that we\u2019ve declared our independence, that we have no need of their \u201cservices\u201d and will not be sending them any tax payments.<\/p>\n
In short order, a bunch of Southern Californians spot us and say \u201cHey, if we move up there we won\u2019t have to pay all these darn taxes!\u201d Pretty soon a few thousand of them are squatting on our land, living in RVs and tents. And what do they do? Within months they express shock that they\u2019re expected to pay cash to use the private streets, cash for their medical care and the tutoring of their children — no more \u201ctax-paid benefits\u201d!<\/p>\n
They promptly demand a big election, at which they plan to \u201cdecide by majority vote\u201d to pass bond issues to build \u201cpublic schools,\u201d to ban the private possession of firearms, to mandate recycling, to ban charcoal grills in order to save the polar bear, to replace our private schools and volunteer fire department with unionized, tax-paid \u201cprofessionals\u201d funded with \u201cprogressive taxes on the wealthy,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n
How long would your Libertarian experiment last? And this isn\u2019t just a theory. It\u2019s already happened to once-mostly-Libertarian Nevada. We call it \u201cCalifornication.\u201d<\/p>\n
To keep from becoming a colony of socialist California, you\u2019d have no choice but to meet new arrivals at the border, telling them they\u2019re welcome to pass through New Columbia as tourists for a few days so long as they pay their private road tolls (no taxes, remember), but they can\u2019t stay and settle down unless they sign a compact agreeing never to demand any \u201cmajority votes\u201d on the presumption that such a method can legitimately authorize taxes, regulations, etc.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd don\u2019t be too hasty about signing that compact,\u201d your guy at the gatehouse would have to explain. \u201cNote down there at the bottom where it says, \u2018I hereby agree that, once I\u2019ve signed, the penalty for even seriously PROPOSING such a thing will be my immediate exile or execution, whichever proves more convenient to my neighbors at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
What would you call such border posts, where new arrivals are greeted? No matter what you called them, what they\u2019d be up to would be \u201cimmigration control,\u201d which would be absolutely necessary if you didn\u2019t want to lose your freedoms to a \u201cmajority vote\u201d of invading socialists, within the first year.<\/p>\n
BORDER CONTROL — at your front door, or along Highway 19 from Nogales. So long as there are collectivists anxious to infiltrate our ranks and subvert our rights under the guise of \u201cone-man, one-vote democracy\u201d … there can be no freedom without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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