Posted on 10/17/2005 9:44:36 AM PDT by Crackingham
A nation without borders is not a nation at all.
Nice round-up of libertarian/wage-depression platitudes. Thanks!
That would be ILLEGAL immgrant bashing. No agenda here.
I'm a total free trader, but even Adam Smith believed in secure borders and national defense.
"Earned legalization"...a specious new concept, in which the longer one breaks the law, the quicker the violation is amnestied away.
Calling all FROBLS! Here's your man, a proud exponent of wide open borders.
National sovereignty, Ptuey! Who needs that? Borders are for "nation-states," an obsolete construct!
Tancredo should sponsor a bill giving 50,000 HB-1 visas to Indians and Pakistanis who can research and write for business lobby think tanks and journalists.
We'll see this fellow says then.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
It's a sad day when the SDU-T agrees with a 'conservative' president on immigration reform. A clear indication that Bush is on the wrong side of the illegal immigration issue.
Illegal immigration is a catastrophy of enormous proportions, Bush and the liberal media propose to make the problem worse.
No it isn't. In this century, it's largely freeloading by people who decided that it was easier than changing the hellholes they were "arbitrarily born in".
and it is wrong to limit an individual's freedom to pursue his or her interests based on it, particularly in a country whose civic identity is based on providing opportunities to people from around the world
No it isn't. Preventing billions of people from around the planet showing up and voting to confiscate your property from you or demanding special treatment for themselves based on their ethnicity is the right of any free people, who view themselves as united.
The economic benefits of free movement of people, like the benefits of free trade and capital flows, are clear. Each immigrant who comes to the United States expands national output more than he or she personally consumes, which benefits everyone
Triumphalist bunk. The millions of illiterate, violent, and irredentist Mexican illegal aliens who have invaded California are almost singularly responsible for the massive spending and accompanying deficits, the degradation of civic life in this state, and every credible national study has shown that mass immigration legal or illegal is a net cost, not a net benefit.
and explain to the American public that the correct conservative, free-market position is pro-immigration
How charming. The Leftist reveals himself: the "correct" position is this, he demands. Oh. Got it. There's a party line, and you got to toe it.
Nothing like a Trotskyite calling himself a "conservative" to show you what table pounding conformity is really about.
Totally illogical crap from a liberal theocrat. We succeed in spite of open borders because I cannot for the life of me think why importing the third world into our country and increasing our "diversity" improves upon the basic wealth. If that were the case China would be missing out and instead be regressing, and Japan would be importing everything and its economy collapsing.
Jim Gilchrist received a sizable 14.4 percent of the vote for Congress on a single-issue, immigrant bashing platform. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, who endorsed Gilchrist, is trying, with some success, to raise immigrant-bashing to a top-tier issue in the 2008 elections.
Remember: you're a nativist and a racist if you object to paying $40,000 per person per year for illegal immigrants. You should be happy to pay $40,000 for each - it's one of the benefits of diversity.
Is Kerpen running for the Quisling presidency?
/sarc
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