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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I suggest you go visit merriam-webster online and read the entire definition. Or I can save you some time by simply informing you that, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, you are wrong. Sorry. You failed. And just FYI, I haven’t done any weed since I graduated from High School more than thirty years ago. Missed the target again, Skippy.
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Go smoke some more cannabis, Dopey. I have a hard time seeing how immaturity can be “amazing”. Astounding yes, but amazing? Amazing is a POSITIVE adjective, not a negative one! But then again I must just consider the source. Why should a fuckwit pothead know the difference? Now go back to your Fig Newtons and your Xbox, Dopey!
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Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t know you are an orphan, that explains why you turned out to be such a fuckin’ TURD! Who ever that was who said she was your mother must have been your older sister AND your mother! Shame on Daddy!
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No, you’re just picking your nose again with the finger you just had up your own ass.
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Oh no! Auditory AND visual hallucinations too!?!?!? You need to see a doctor soon. Schizophrenia is serious but it IS treatable. Or maybe you’re saying that you have sex with ghosts? Does it happen often? You might have a poltergeist targeting you. Perhaps you just get off on fantasizing about fucking corpses. I wouldn’t be surprised.
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……….zzzzzzZ…..oh…huh? did you say something …. or is there just a stinkbug in the room?
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That’s not what your mother said after I fucked the shit out her last night! She said “My SON fuck me the way YOU do, IAMHEWHOAIM or your twin. I love getting nailed by you and your brother”
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Ohhh… I see that you are gender identificationally challenged too. Well, that certainly explains your obsession with mammalian genetalia. Probably your stunted maturity level also. You know, there are programs available to help people with, ummm, “difficulties” such as yours. You might want to find one.
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You display an amazing level of immaturity for someone who claims to be a Marine. Or perhaps you meant to say that you are a maroon but you haven’t gotten that far yet in your vocabulary studies to be able to spell it properly? Yeah… That’s probably it. Too bad spellcheckers can’t correct ignorance, eh?
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So what was the better order: The Kingdoms of Nature or the Republics of Science and Man? Furthermore what has the ability to cause hurricanes along the coastal areas and tornadoes in the central states? Easy, it is the doing of nature. Nature is God. Man is of Nature. Nature is not of Man.
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Sometimes I feel that the elements of Nature (what people of religion call God) have told me the evil of this republic of man – the heart of the democratic and republican world created by the laws of science – is coherent in the minds of most Americans (younger generations more than older generations). My mother and I have suffered from the hidden dark side of the democratic order. Therefore I believe I must destroy it.
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Boer Genocide. Research it.
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you didnt but Ron Paul did.
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their are whites in south africa…
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wRONg PAUL IS A TEXAS SIZE JACKASS!!!!! HE SUCKS DONKEY BALLS!!!!!!!
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RON PAUL IS A TEXAS SIZE JACKASS. HE SUCKS MONKEY DICK!!! LMFAO
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wRONg Paul is a Texas size JACKASS! LOLOLOLOLOL!
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I didn’t say anything about the soldiers
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I didn’t say anything about the soldiers
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Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality. Please search “Wealth Inequality in America.”
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AMERICA WAKES UP .
Watch > The Military KNOWS israel did 911 , on YouTube .
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WATCH :
Jews in the American government > on YouTube .
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WATCH :
Jews in the American government > on YouTube .
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Long live liberty!
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Shut up-a you face-a, you suma-na-beetch!
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Oh I’m sorry, please refer to my “fuck off” reply. Thanx much
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Yes. You did say “free immigration”. I was aware of that. I responded by saying that we need to define what “free immigration” is. How can I agree or disagree without knowing what your concept of “free immigration” is to begin with?
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“I’m not opposed to immigration per se.”
I didn’t say immigration per se, I said free immigration.
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I’m not opposed to immigration per se. I never have been. We need to define exactly what “free immigration” is. Friedman said that prior to 1914 we had “free immigration” but let’s look at that. Some people were denied entry and told to go back where they came from. Medical condition, disease, disability, insanity, criminal background, and even lack of a skill with which to support yourself were among the possible reasons for denying entry to someone. It was never an open door for EVERYBODY.
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Well of course you can’t have free-immigration with a welfare state, but that doesn’t mean you should be opposed to free immigration in principle.
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Well of course you can’t have free-immigration with a welfare state, but that doesn’t mean you should be opposed to free immigration in principle.
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Unlike you with your pointy little head, eh Zippy?
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Part 2 of 2: A couple things Friedman said need to be updated to today’s reality from when that video was taken. I grew up in southern California. Long gone are the days of Mexicans coming here to just pick lettuce or do other “undesirable” jobs. Back then they stayed out of the system of social security, welfare, etc. But now many too many illegals (of all ethnicity’s) are coming here with the full intent of sucking up as much free benefits as they can. Food stampers driving a Mercedes? Yup!
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I see where you’re coming from now. And I happen to be in agreement. But Friedman said that free and open immigration is good in a free market system but NOT in a welfare system which by and large is what we have today. I think the point Ron Paul was trying to make is that the same people (not literally) in Washington, DC that turned us into a welfare state now propose to “fix” the problems with highly questionable means that are ripe for abuse. And sooner or later they always abuse things.
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To hell with visas and any sort of immigration restrictions. They do nothing but hamper the division of labor, and are completely and utterly unnecessary. As for free-immigration, look at the work Milton Friedman did on this issue.
watch?v=C52TlPCVDio
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