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To date, no major political party in the United States has issued a coherent, principled policy on immigration. Without a principled policy, political jockeying has been the rule of the day.
The Libertarian Party
advocates a veritable open border policy on the grounds of laissez-faire. The LP likens the movement of people across borders to the movement of capital and goods: "To promote economic freedom, they demand the unrestricted movement of humans as well as financial capital across national borders." While this may strike some libertarians as self-consistent, the platform prong is nevertheless ill conceived. As
demonstrated by Lew Rockwell — following the analyses of Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Murray Rothbard — for several reasons,
immigration cannot be equated with international trade. In short, despite the murkiness of the concept of "public property,"
unvetted immigration infringes the property rights of citizens.
President Donald Trump's immigration policy was instituted as part of the "America First" platform. Although it may be understood in terms of the property rights of US citizens, it was never justified on these grounds. The result was that Democrats and the media could claim that the policy was racist rather than principled.
Now that the Left has secured complete control of the federal government,
the lack of principle is resulting in a humanitarian crisis under the banner of humanitarianism, mostly for political gain.
Immediately upon taking office, Biden signed
a welter of executive orders and presidential proclamations, issued on "humanitarian" grounds. Full of bromides about human dignity and fairness,
the humanitarianism of Biden's declarations is belied by the infringement of the prerogatives and property rights of US citizens, as well as the apparent endangerment of their health and general welfare. Although the covid crisis is grossly overstated, the hypocrisy of the Left is on full display as mask-less immigrants pour into the country without covid precautions while many Americans remain masked and partially locked down.
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