I believe Washington was correct: the evil of destroying families is greater than the evil of slavery.
Just look at the family-unit of today and the condition of slavery compared to the family-unit and the condition of slavery at the time of the Founding.
Or, if you want to eliminate one of those variables and look at only one: look at the condition of the family unit just after the civil war and the family-unit of today.
It is my belief that morally-strong individuals [tend to] come from strong families, whereas there is no real/readily-apparent indicator for the morally-weak (we are all sinners and QUITE susceptible to temptation). So, if the family produces the strong/moral citizen then if the government wants moral citizens then they would encourage/support families, where if they do not want moral citizens (which is one profound thought from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged) because they can only really control the criminal then they will do everything they can to dissolve the family and promote criminal behavior.
That is, I believe, an adequate explanation for the state of Illegal Immigration here in the US.
It really is about Liberty vs. Tyranny, or as some have said: “It’s all about control”.
Agreed...on all points.
One issue that I haven’t seen addressed in all the discussion.
Freedom is the anomoly.. Slavery historically was the norm.