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My purpose in writing this essay is to evaluate the immigration policy that is commonly supported by conservatives today, especially in the years leading up to and including the Obama-Trump era in U.S. politics, and to show you how this immigration policy is not conservative in any way, how its underlying arguments and mindset are entirely foreign to the American conservative tradition, and how it in fact has far more in common with the ideas and mindset of radical leftist ideologies like those of Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin. Nailing down a definition of conservatism is no easy task, but generally American conservatism has been characterized by an intellectually rigorous understanding of and commitment to rule of law, individual liberty, and limited government. 1. A conservative immigration policy would not violate anyone's individual liberty. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain un...

Via PoliticsMaven: "Asked what he thinks of people comparing ICE to Nazis, acting director Thomas Homan replied with the Nuremberg defense. The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that comparing ICE agents to Nazis is unfair, because 'they’re simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress.' Thomas Homan employed the 'Nuremberg defense' – used by German Nazi officials in an attempt to escape accountability with the claim they were merely following orders." Watch: Acting ICE director Thomas Homan, without any sense of irony, tells @TuckerCarlson that he objects to people comparing ICE to Nazis because they "are simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress." pic.twitter.com/Jwqnnd3C0C — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2018 This Is The United States.

I am merely enforcing the law!

From CNN : The Trump administration will no longer seek to automatically release pregnant immigrants from detention -- a move in line with the overall efforts by the administration to hold far more immigrants in custody than its predecessors. The change in policy could pave the way for more pregnant women to be held in detention facilities while they await lengthy court proceedings about whether they can stay in the US, facilities that are already decried by critics for tough conditions. The decision comes as immigration advocates have assailed the administration's efforts to hold more immigrants in detention writ large and its increased arrest of noncriminal immigrants. This is evil. And conservatives since the weekend have been drawing comparisons between March for Our Lives and Nazi gun control laws... but what Trump's doing is a lot more like the Third Reich than anything these polite, gunless Democrats have accomplished. It's not good. My Channels...

While Redistributing Our Wealth, Mostly to Themselves Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of Poverty While Incentivizing Poverty And Trashing Our Economy Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of The Drug Dealers While Propping Them Up And Subsidizing Big Pharma's Leaders Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of the Right Wing Militia Groups While Stockpiling Hollow Tip Ammo and FEMA Body Bags Too Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of Terrorists After Years of Funding, Arming, and Training Them These People Need To See A Therapist Now They're Saying We Can't Be Free Because of Immigrants When This Whole Time The Biggest Problem Was Always Washington And good luck stopping immigrants from coming in Or bitcoin from popping out the Old World Order's linchpin

"Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you've never met, and all of the sudden you take pride in accomplishments you had no part in whatsoever..."

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" It's funny I always thought THIS^ was what Made America Great. We'll take anyone you don't want. Give us all the rejects of the civilized world. Give us all your "losers." And we'll give them a chance to show you what they're really made of. Steel and Heart. Brawn and Brain. Daring and Hope....

State nationalism is obviously antithetical to libertarianism, and it's obviously evil. What kind of a bizarre alternate reality have we ended up in that any libertarians at all are falling for this nasty and stupid shit? Well here's the video Stefan Molyneux published Wednesday: Let's dive right in: "If you're going to have... the welfare state, free education, free health care, free you name it... then you have to have borders." This is an argument against the welfare state. Not an argument for the police state. See this is where Stefan Molyneux has abandoned libertarianism completely for racism and state nationalism. Instead of arguing for less welfare state, he argues for more police state. It's very hard to hear from someone who made a name for himself as a formidable critic of the state. Stefan Molyneux is leading his listeners into the time-honored statist death spiral of correcting problems caused by government with even more go...

Government Official: "We need to ensure only legal workers are hired." Immigrant: "You're saying I'm 'an illegal worker?' What have I done wrong?" Government Official: "Well you're standing there." Immigrant: "Where should I be standing?" Government Official: "Somewhere in your country." Immigrant: "My country?" Government Official: "The country you were born in." Immigrant: "Why can't I stand here? I'm not causing any problems. He owns this place..." [Immigrant points to his employer.] "And he says I can be here." Government Official: "Well you didn't even tell us you were here, or get our permission to be working. This is our country you know." [Immigrant looks over at his employer with brows knit together shaking his head like "wtf?" and his employer shrugs his shoulders and puts his hands up like "dude ...

This is not a partisan tirade. I did not vote for Clinton or Obama either time. So I am not just reflexively criticizing Donald Trump for this because he's Trump and has an R next to his name. In one sentence: None of this is any of the federal government's business. Both DACA and the repeal of DACA are examples of big government run amok. If I want to hire someone, that's their work permit. They are now permitted to work for me. It's my business. Because I am paying them to and I give them permission to. It's my money to pay them. And it's my business to decide. We don't need any extra permission from anyone else. We're grown ups. We can decide. It doesn't matter where that person was born either. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Why should the place someone was born make them have any less rights than anyone else? We're all people. Do conservatives think God cares where a person was born? Do the...

Why is THIS the item that's getting cut ? The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense confirmed during a Tuesday morning conference call with members of Congress that the administration will be reducing the National Guard troop presence on the border with Mexico by 75 percent, according to Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe. The briefing featured U.S. Customs and Border Protection Assistant Commissioner David V. Aguilar, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fischer and DOD Assistant Secretary Paul Stockton. The administration representatives revealed that the National Guard’s presence on the border will be reduced from 1,200 to 300 troops and their budget will decrease from $120 million to $60 million. Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

"In yet another showdown between the Obama Administration and the states, which are already challenging President Obama’s signature health care legislation in the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Court announced Monday that it would also be taking on Arizona’s controversial and tough immigration law, passed in 2010." Read my full coverage at the Independent Voter Network . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Republicans are usually quick to point out that the bureaucracy and legislature in Washington cannot possibly regulate the price and quantity of things like health care or education with any degree of economic effectiveness. Why shouldn’t this reasoning apply to the price and quantity of immigrant labor? Arguably one of the greatest driving forces behind the explosion of economic productivity in the United States during its first two centuries of existence was an unprecedented level of freedom in the flow of ideas, capital, and labor across its borders. Borders do not have to be barriers. They can and should delineate the sovereign territory in which a nation’s laws will be enforced, but that doesn’t require preventing or slowing people, goods, and information from entering and enriching that sovereign territory. Read my entire article at IVN.us . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Check out this headline! Yikes. I can see it all now. U.S. citizens illegally emigrating to Mexico to get good paying jobs. Native born Mexicans complaining that we don't learn the language (cause let's be honest), that we steal all their jobs, and that we bring an unhealthy criminal element into the country. Lou Dobbs and Tom Tancredo's grandchildren will send them cash from their jobs in Mexico..... ALL BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KEEP RAISING THE DEBT CEILING LIKE OBAMA WANTED!!! But no seriously, this headline made me literally laugh out loud in real life. Like this: *Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *sigh *pause *sniff *sniff *sob *sob *sob *soooob* "I DID MY BEST! I DID MY BEST!" F-bomb alert (like one or two-- I pride myself on always warning you): Oh yeah-- hat tip to reddit . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

P.L. Fraietta's got the reason at YAL : "If we look past the question of whether or not illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship, we can see that this proposal is simply another attempt at government led social engineering. Why make the requirement two years of college or military service? Because it is government's belief that attending college or joining the military molds 'better' citizens." Those of you who know me know I'm very pro-immigration, and have stirred up some heated debates at this website before, with readers who don't think we should open our borders quite as much as I'd like to. But I've got to hand it to Fraietta, this isn't a bad reason to oppose the DREAM Act.

Here's a fun fact. Did you know that last year, illegal immigrants paid more taxes than multi-billion dollar conglomerate General Electric ? That's right, the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy found that in 2010, undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $11.2 billion in taxes. General Electric -- which earned $14 billion last year-- paid nothing. It even got money from Washington ( i.e. from you ), all credits and subsidies considered. Isn't that appalling ? Look, if you think illegal immigrants aren't carrying their fair share of the burden, if you think they are soaking up goodies from the welfare state and glutting our social services-- we can have that debate... But can we agree that the bigger drain on our national treasury is corporate welfare and giant multi-billion dollar handouts to the finance industry and other powerful lobbies with friends in Washington? Can we agree that the unearned transfer of wealth from hard-working middle class and poo...

According to WorkPermit.com : The Netherlands has introduced Europe's most stringent immigration requirements for would-be immigrants. Applicants for a resident visa must now pass a Dutch language test administered at the Dutch Embassy in their country of origin costing $417. Along with the language exam, applicants will be tested on their compatibility with Dutch liberalism. This is done by way of a civil-examination, including a 108 minute film which includes homosexuals kissing and nudity in beach scene. "According to polls, Dutch public opinion has been changing for years, with most people now in favour of the government's assimilation drive," said Meindert Fennema, a professor at the University of Amsterdam and a specialist on immigration. Opponents of the new immigration exam say that the Dutch government is trying to offend and exclude devout Muslims from immigrating, and hault Muslim immigrants bringing wives over from their country of birth. Weird h...

Interesting observation : 'Nativism, and some aspects of the Americanization movement of the WWI period (especially the more coercive stuff) has always had the effect of making immigrants cling more tightly to their cultures, their languages, traditions. This is both basic psychology and is historically accurate and can be documented for many groups. Any attack on religion (which frankly, is what anti-Muslim talk is, it's not anti-ethnic, because there's no ethnic group called "Muslim") encourages more orthodoxy, not less, and is totally counter-preductive, because of the 1st Amendment. The American Catholic Church became the authoritarian institution that it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries in large part because of Anglo-American Protestants insisting that Protestantism and Americanism were synonymous and attacking Irish Catholics.' W. E. Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Check out this video of Jack Hunter vs Don Boudreaux in a discussion over illegal immigration. Personally, I see valid points on both sides of the discussion. I see illegal immigration as trespassing. However I also understand that a free market in labor should exist and that the government is not the best entity to determine the supply of labor necessary to meet demand. Watch video here . Regardless of whatever happens, turning the country into a police state (REAL-ID, E-Verify, PASS-Act) to deal with the illegal immigration issue is not acceptable. Matt Collins , Regular Columnist Articles | Author's Page