Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 07/18/2025 5:49:06 PM PDT by bitt
As someone who has researched U.S. immigration policy for over three decades, I’m often asked why the Biden administration effectively opened America’s borders, allowing in 9 or 10 million foreigners who had no legal right to enter. Was it done to import voters who would change the balance of power in red states? Or perhaps to bulk up the population of blue states that have been hemorrhaging residents, in preparation for the 2030 census? To change the nation’s ethnic composition? Or maybe just for cheap labor?
None of these possibilities was the real reason—though some of those ends certainly have been served. Biden’s illegal border surge happened because the people in charge of border policy didn’t believe in the legitimacy of borders. Even the most radical of politicians can’t come out and say that, though the policies they support point inexorably in that direction. Fortunately, writers have no such constraint.
Which is why John Washington’s The Case for Open Borders is so useful. A staff writer for Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit news organization, he avoids the usual obfuscations and says the quiet part out loud: borders, as such, are immoral. “[P]eople should be able to move and migrate where they need to or want to.” He believes free movement of people is an inherent right—not just the right to leave your own country, but also the right to enter any other country you want.
Washington presents an explicitly leftist case, to the point of parody. (His publisher is Haymarket Books, named after the 1886 riot in Chicago that led to May Day being the premier Communist holiday; it also published Angela Davis’s memoir.) He stresses throughout that open borders are necessary for climate justice, racial justice, economic justice, proletarian solidarity, reparations, anti-colonialism, and so forth (though I don’t recall anything about the trans issue). Open borders, he writes, “must be part of a more profound readjustment of global politics that includes the abolition of the inequality regime set in place by postcolonial capitalism.” You get the picture. Washington is arguing for the immigration policy of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
It’s easy to laugh at such drivel, especially after the rebuke it received last November. But that would be a mistake. The modern Left is part of a powerful post-national, anti-borders axis that is primarily driven not by the activists themselves but by globalizing corporate interests, whose version of the case for open borders is made by Cato Institute-style libertarians.
...MORE
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
Cuz borders are raciss if they keep non-whites out
Invasion is a civil right but only if you’re non-white
That is the official Libertarian Party position on immigration.
Open borders and eliminating the Border Patrol.
COMPLETE PLATFORM TEXT
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL ORDER
IMMIGRATION:
“”THE ISSUE: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government’s policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.
THE PRINCIPLE: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
SOLUTIONS: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.
TRANSITIONAL ACTION: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.””
For at least 60 years, there has been a war on Americas borders, language and culture.
Satan
Globalists through the democrat party.
All of the above plus the commies owned Biden. This is a way to destroy America and europe.
The open borders motive is basic.
They hate nations.
God separated mankind at the Tower of Babel.
That’s when he divided man into nations via languages.
The secular humanists, darwinists, Godless, Communists
( But I repeat myself )
hate borders and nations cuz they hate God.
Satan needs man united, in order to turn all against God.
Borders stand in the way of that one satanic goal.
One world gov, money and religion is prophecied and will happen.
Soon.
I see you beat me to the punch line
Exactly
/-).
According to Elon: The goal is to flood swing states with illegal aliens who will vote democrat for the handouts.
That is the cover story. And it is totally misleading. They self=anointed overlords want to flood the U.S. to overwhelm census to increase and maintain the Dem majority. Getting the majority in both houses and the presidency to the ultimate goal of amnesty. That is Amnesty 1.0. D-head Biden bragged about it: California is the model.
IF THEY DO NOT DO THIS, the demographics will go the other way. This is why they flooded the border, rather than do it gradually.
“THE ISSUE: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive.”
This, of course, violates the primary tenet of Harry Brown’s libertarian philosophy - The protection of private property. The United States is private property. Today’s so-called libertarians are clowns who can’t read or think.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.