Nothing is more truly a libertarian principle--regardless of what some "Libertarians" may claim--than the right of a people to preserve their heritages--their achievements, cultural, material & spiritual--for their kith & kin; for their posterity, down through the generations.
Diverse groups--but specific diverse groups--originally settled in distinct communities, prior to the America that arose in the counter Revolution of 1775 -1781; very definitely with such preservation in mind. They intended not only to preserve heritage, of course, but to build on that heritage, generation by generation.
This experience is basic to understanding not only traditional American values--those that have been consistently rejected by the Leftist movements of the past century;--but also why before those Leftist movements started sucking our vitality away with crackpot agitations--we so clearly out-performed the rest of the world. Those specifically American sub-cultures unleashed the dynamic processes that made us out-perform.
Are Johnson & Weld in any sense comparable to Thomas Jefferson, as champions for American libertarian values? Dare they suggest that they are comparable? There is no question where Thomas Jefferson would stand with respect to the millions of Hispanic migrants, illegally in the Untied States. As Jefferson explained to Congress after the Louisiana purchase, he made the purchase--cutting legal corners to do so--precisely to establish a buffer between an Hispanic & Anglo world.
He was not, nor am I in any sense hostile to the well being of Mexico or Central America. But there is an immense cultural divide between the Anglo/Celtic culture of the Founding Fathers and that of contemporary Mexico; or that of Mexico in 1803 & 1804. May we both prosper; but may we both succeed in preserving our distinct heritages. And we do not need rioting Hispanics trying to alter our politics, or values or our preferences to achieve those ends.
Most “Libertarians” pay lip service to Milton Friedman’s statement that you can have a welfare state or liberal immigration policy, but not both. I say lip service because the Bill Welds and Gary Johnsons know they won’t get rid of the welfare state, but they persist in supporting liberal immigration policy anyway. Talk about putting the cart before the horse.