When uniformed thugs from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Erika Andiola’s home and abducted her mother and brother, the first media notes on the event identified Andiola as a prominent “immigration reform” activist and suggested petitioning prominent kingpins in the government immigration and “homeland security” racket for their release.
While I sympathize with Andiola’s specific predicament, I’m saddened to see her wasting her time agitating for political band-aids like the DREAM Act, which is just another regulatory scheme cobbled together by politicians. It’s no different in principle than the Arizona-specific legislation which singled her out for college scholarship ineligibility and then made her unemployable as an “illegal immigrant.”
At first glance, the DREAM Act looks like an improvement on the current repressive immigration regimes of both the federal government and those of several states like Arizona. It supposedly exempts immigrants who arrived in the US as minors (Andiola came to America at the age of 11), from ICE’s reign of terror if they jump through various political hoops such as service in the US military and/or enrollment in and graduation from government-approved indoctrina … er, “higher education” … programs.
But there are several major problems with the DREAM Act.
The first is that, as described above, it’s a nasty piece of extortion from top to bottom. Immigrants should not, any more than people born inside the imaginary lines (“borders”) drawn by our dominant street gang, be required to render service to that gang in return for being left alone.
The second is that the politicians who draft, and the goons who enforce, state regulatory schemes can’t be trusted to go by their own rules in any case. If they could, this wouldn’t even be an issue, seeing as how the US Constitution specifically and indisputably forbids the federal government to involve itself in immigration at all, apart from levying a maximum ten dollar tax on each immigrant. By what logic would we expect ICE to abide by subordinate rules like the DREAM Act when its very existence is a violation of “the Supreme Law of the Land?”
While it’s possible that the several states would develop similarly stump-stupid immigration rules if left to do so as the US Constitution requires, chances are that at least some of them would compete to entice immigrants rather than terrorize them with onerous impositions like Arizona’s SB 1070, which was sold as an “enforcement” hook for those federal rules (I’ve personally dubbed it “the Know-Nothing Appeasement Act”).
But even devolution to the state level is insufficient to guarantee the rights of America’s immigrants. The only real solution, as with every other social problem, is to abolition of the state itself.
Shiny badges and expensive offices notwithstanding, ICE is no less a criminal enterprise than Los Zetas or the Gambino family, and its abduction of Andiola’s family no less a crime. It’s time to recognize that and respond accordingly. “Reform” of the existing system through the DREAM Act or other political legerdemain would be meaningless window-dressing.
Citations to this article:
- Thomas L. Knapp, Immigration reform is a bad ‘Dream’, Deming, New Mexico Headlight, 01/13/13
People are not aliens. Borders, checkpoints, and immigration laws violate the basic human right to move to another country to seek better opportunity. It is immoral to limit a person's rights to better living conditions and opportunity only because of the geographical accident of their birth.
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That is not in fact the case, in general. There is also the principle behind Locke’s caveat about taking up land etc. only being proper when it still leaves enough and good enough for others. When there is a certain level of population density at the destination (the level will depend on local circumstances), there is an externality cost from the health issues, vagrancy costs, etc.; moving into an area like that throws more burden on those already there, as well as placing a cost of that sort on the newcomers. That makes it a taking, and it is only moral if the newcomers compensate the existing population in ways that they accept. If they don’t want to sell the right to move nearby, then doing that is a trespass, and not only is there no right to do that but also there is nothing immoral about limiting it as such, any more than in limiting and preventing the expropriation of any trespass. Of course, the means chosen to do that limiting may be immoral separately, but not from the mere fact that they limit.
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DON’T SPEAK UP NOW, THE MAJORITY OF US TAXPAYERS WILL BE FOREVER SORRY?
It don’t matter which group of politicians you vote for, as the cost for another Path to Citizenship is prohibitive for all Americans. Speaking for myself, as an Independent and probably a good half of America just surfing the web and not hand tied by the Liberal press and their leftists editorial staff, I believe that in heavily Liberal strongholds that unknown numbers of non-citizens voted in the presidential election. With Obama pushing even more taxes, he wants another Amnesty and hundreds of billions of people throughout the world is avidly listening? The encouraging word is going out and all these uncountable numbers of foreign nationals are going to sweep down on the poorly guarded borders of Mexico and Canada. Then with this well publicized scenario that entries as a tourist is not tracked, a good course of action will bring unfettered numbers of visitors to our door, that are of no mind to return home.
All we going to gain from Obama’s immigration venture is more poverty, more illiterate and uneducated who we the taxpayer will eventually have to cover their bills. Another multi-trillion dollar amnesty is a catastrophe waiting to happen, so says the Heritage Foundation. Have you noticed that you already paying for every smuggled child of illegal aliens, who have reached sovereign America? The “Anchor Baby” is the real thing, as once settled here under a fabricated misuse law, they get automatic citizenship and YOU PAY, and YOU KEEP PAYING from delivery to grave. UNLESS WE ADD AN AMENDMENT TO THE 14th AMENDMENT, CHANGE WILL NEVER COME AND FOREVER WE WILL BE PAYING FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS CHILDREN WHO CLAIM CITIZENSHIP, WHICH WAS STRINGENTLY APPLIED TO ONLY SLAVES? Their parents have that foothold and are able to collect every citizen benefit, without even spending one penny. No wonder Medicade is out the window in entitlements that should be going to citizens, real citizens.
Obama is showing his true Socialist true self, especially when he declares we must pay our bills? Can anybody tell me that his spending isn’t extravagant, when every prior and post administration we are paying for every foreign child; overloading our schools with non English speaking illegal children and the consequences to Americans who taxes are riding sky high. The newspapers and Lib-Democrats always broadcast about entitlements for low income families, when millions of these families are here illegally? One member slips across the borders, fly here and the rest relatives follow, and collect ample amounts of cash payments and citizen benefits for every infant.
Two laws could send illegal aliens packing and you can read about the Legal Workforce Bill, which detects illegal aliens stealing jobs from Americans Mandatory E-Verify is the way to go and it enforces strict regulations on unconcerned business owners. Amnesty is a senseless, diabolical plan for illegal aliens, when an estimated 24 million Americans are jobless? The Birthright Citizenship Bill will stop children of millions of illegal aliens from legal theft of citizenship, thus discouraging the never ending stream of illegal aliens arriving here. These people disrespect our laws and come here to pilfer citizen’s rights. It can be guaranteed that if you read about passing these two laws, our government could save hundreds of billions of dollars each year, which would certainly help to relieve the pressure on the amount of money being spent on entitlements on foreign nationals. Don’t listen to the ravings of the open border zealots, who have infiltrated the Obama Administration. In addition ignore what you read in the national press, as they are tainted with the Liberal Progressives, who think America should have an open door policy with no borders. Investigate your States costs and the federal government and then contact your Congressman and those in Congress and stop this invasion for good?
I really could care less who comes here legally, as they have not broken the law and waited patiently for a visa. I just don’t want to financially support them with my taxes, specifically illegal aliens and their extended families. Foreign nationals are so pampered by Congress, not judging illegal entry as bad behavior and even disrespect for our policies once here, deserve punishment for this lawless Turpitude as a class 1 felony. We have our own mess of “freeloaders” who prefer to leech of the rest of us taxpayers, but the U.S government seems to think we should offer even more taxes to support the corrupt United Nations and all the parasites that arrive here with their smuggled children.
You know who an "Anchor Baby" originally is? A child born from of South Vietnamese immigrants ALLOWED to LEGALLY stay within the US.
And if you & other xenophobes (like the dirtbag Keith Preston) don't like to pay taxes to support immigrants THEN TOPPLE THE STATE WHICH LEVIES TAXES AGAINST YOU AND KEEPS A LOT PEOPLE MORE OUT WHILE LETTING A FEW IN AS "LEGAL IMMIGRANTS," WHICH THE STATES THEN FORCES YOU & I & MANY OTHERS (xenophobes or not) TO SUPPORT.
By the way, I AM WILLING TO HELP ANY IMMIGRANTS WHO ENTER MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, AND YOU & YOUR XENOPHOBIC ILK HAD NO RIGHT TO FORCE UPON ME WHAT TO DO WITHIN MY PRIVATE PROPERTY. YOU DON'T WANT THEM IN YOUR HOUSE, FINE, BUT DON'T FORBID ME TO LET THEM ENTER MY HOUSE, HOWEVER NEAR IS MY HOUSE TO YOURS.
SEGREGATION IS COLLECTIVIST TO THEIR CORE. WHAT RIGHTS DO RACISTS THE HAVE TO FORBID PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES TO LIVE NEAR THEM? WHAT RIGHTS DO THEY HAVE TO FORBID THEIR SAME-RACE NEIGHBORS TO WELCOME PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES ON THE NEIGHBORS' LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRED PROPERTY? WHAT RIGHTS DO THEY HAVE FORBID THEIR SAME-RACE NEIGHBORS TO SELL PROPERTY TO PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES? WHAT RIGHTS DO THEY HAVE TO FORBID PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES TO MOVE INTO PROPERTY THE LATTER HAD LEGITIMATELY BOUGHT? WHAT RIGHTS DO RACISTS HAVE TO FORCE A PRO-INTEGRATION PRIVATE BUSINESS OR PERSON TO SEGREGATE? NONE! THAT'S WHY RACISTS HAD BEEN RESORTING TO GOVERNMENTS.
WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU XENOPHOBES HAVE UNOCCUPIED LANDS & VACANT JOBS WHICH IMMIGRANTS CAN RIGHTFULLY HOMESTEAD &TAKE?