by Ron Paul
Whenever the federal government decides to reform something we can be fairly sure that the problem is about to get worse, especially if they call the plan bi-partisan. The bi-partisan immigration reform proposal launched last week in the US Senate will be no different.
The new plan, introduced by Sens. McCain and Schumer, would provide a path to citizenship for many of those in the United States illegally. This would only begin after the borders are deemed secure and applicants have paid fees for their illegal entry. They must also pay back taxes on their earnings while working here without government permission. Those on a path to citizenship would be subject to background checks and would be monitored while in the US.
The devil is in the details, and the details of the McCain plan are deeply disturbing. To secure the borders he is calling for a massive increase in drones flying over US territory, spying on US citizens along the border – and presumably within the 100 mile “border zone” over which Department of Homeland Security claims jurisdiction. What if these drones detect suspicious activity unrelated to illegal immigration? Imagine the implications for the federal government’s disastrous war on drugs. Imagine what’s left of the Fourth Amendment completely tossed into the trashcan. The “privatized” prison system in the US that now benefits from the war on drugs and illegal immigration will no doubt look forward to booming business thanks to the army of drones overhead.
Additionally, the McCain/Schumer plan calls for a nationwide, mandatory E-Verify program, which forces employers to act as federal immigration agents, and forces American citizens to prove to the government that they are allowed to work. E-Verify is an East Germany-like program that creates a massive federal database of every American citizen and notes whether or not they are permitted to work.
As Cato Institute privacy expert Jim Harper noted of e-Verify, potentially tens of thousands of American citizens would come up as a false positive for illegal status, denying them the right to work and forcing them to prove to the government that they are not here illegally. He writes, “If E-Verify goes national, get used to hearing that Orwellian term: ‘non-confirmation.’”
Harper rightly notes that E-Verify is in fact a national ID card, writing last week that, “the system must biometrically identify everyone who works—you, me, and every working American you know. There is no way to do internal enforcement of immigration law without a biometric national identity system.”
Much of the most recent immigration problem of the 2000s was actually created by the federal government. The easy money policy of the Federal Reserve blew up the housing bubble and created enormous demand for labor. This artificial demand was filled largely by workers who crossed into the US illegally. Within a year of the housing market crash in 2008, an estimated one million illegal workers left the United States for Mexico and beyond. Net illegal immigration into the United States last year had fallen to zero.
As I noted in my most recent book, Liberty Defined, much of our immigration problems would be eliminated were the federal government to simply return to sound money practices and end the welfare incentive for individuals to come to the US illegally. Afterward, what remains of the problem would mostly be solved with a far more generous and flexible guest worker program. Whatever the case, turning the US into a police state in order to fight a hyped up illegal immigration “crisis” is a bad deal for us all.
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Ron Paul is the human equivalent of an overflowing septic tank! His speeches sound like he’s gargling diarrhea. And they make about as much sense as giving a monkey a hand grenade! He must have eaten a lot of paint chips as a child, or maybe he’s just sniffing glue all day long? What a fuckin’ dipshit!
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Im to give up my rights for illegals and the drug trade? I call bullshit. White people do not take skilled trade jobs because the work comp. system is Obamacare 101. I was a mill wright and a bullrider. Good life. A kid tells me he wants this life today? I say go be a florist. Our country has gone to hell and you will be screwed. Like me now!!
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Wow. Very eye opening.
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Define “civilized.” That term is extremely arbitrary; to the natives, Europeans probably seemed to be savages, what with their ideas of “private property” and “don’t take a bath because we heard it’s sinful” and “women=inferior”
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One thing for sure the US is going to run out of money – you watch –
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Chucky SChumer and the rest of the gang should be put under citizens arrest and jailed !
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why would he ron paul has repeatedly shown himself to be a gold shill
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why would he ron paul has repeatedly shown himself to be a gold shill
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ron paul’s source cato insitute is a koch funded propaganda mill not a valid scource
and sound money is just a red herring that ignores the true purpose of money to create a easily portable standard to make trade easier. Because of this the standard for money only only has value if the society says it does-regardless of it being paper, gold, silver, or something else.
and ron paul is barking out cra myths. ccc unc edu documents DebunkingCRAMyth
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ron paul’s source cato insitute is a koch funded propaganda mill not a valid scource
and sound money is just a red herring that ignores the true purpose of money to create a easily portable standard to make trade easier. Because of this the standard for money only only has value if the society says it does-regardless of it being paper, gold, silver, or something else.
and ron paul is barking out cra myths. ccc unc edu documents DebunkingCRAMyth
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I’ve uploaded some vids of a Ron Paul oil portrait painting I am currently working on.
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RON PAUL 2016
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will ron paul come out in support for bitcoin
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But they didnt have a civilized society
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oh and that collective force in anarchy that you speak of is just the same as government, so there is no anarchy, at most in the propaganda meaning of the word.
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That’s right.. you don’t force anarchy on people.. if you would abolish the government today (which is impossible) there would be a new one tomorrow.. it starts in the mind of the people.
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If they ruin 4th part of our constituation, I will kill them all and hack all the drones one by one and inch by inch and even break their skulls and break their arms out and cut their guts out and stab their belly. Thats why tyrant must die.
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