On the methods and purposes of the Democrat campaign of violence against U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Immigration
Immigration quotas forcibly exclude foreigners who want not to seize but to purchase housing here, who want not to rob Americans but to engage in productive work, raising our standard of living. To forcibly exclude those who seek peacefully to trade value for value with us is a violation of the rights of both parties to such a trade: the rights of the American seller or employer and the rights of the foreign buyer or employee. – HARRY BINSWANGER
Objectivism Applied to Immigration Law
That immigration authorities are enforcing a law badly in need of reform does not alter the fact that ICE officers are valid agents of law enforcement and must be treated accordingly.
ICE Shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota
Objectivist former prosecutor James Valliant assesses the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota.
What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like
Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ICE, and Illegal Immigration
ICE agents enforcing the law aren’t the threat to American values. The threat is the accumulated mass of people who broke the law to enter, refuse to assimilate, exploit systems meant for citizens, and vote for politicians who promise more of the same.
The Death of Renee Good: When Ideology Overides Reason
This is not a story about a blameless victim. This is a story about ideology so divorced from reality that it sends people into dangerous confrontations apparently unprepared for obvious consequences.
Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process
Today’s victims are peaceful immigrants; tomorrow, the target could be any American who dares to challenge the state.
Freedom For Me But Not For Thee
We cannot have a country where the rights of one person matter more than the rights of another, simply because they were born in a different country or are the descendants of someone who was.
America, Yesterday and Today — a Nation of Patriotic Immigrants
The United States is a country of immigrants.
Trump’s Afrikaner Refugees: Strange Process, Right Decision
The US government should allow those who are discriminated against under foreign affirmative action policies to apply for asylum or to be considered refugees for in-country refugee processing.
No Good Reason to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” – Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
There Are Not 13,099 Illegal Immigrant Murderers Roaming Free on American Streets
Commentators focused on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) letter claim that ICE did not detain 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide, tended to misunderstand the data.
Immigration Can Ease America’s Labor Shortage
“As we have tried to erect a fortress, so have we managed to build a prison.” Instead of a prison, let’s build a bridge.
Can America “Absorb” More Immigrants?
America’s ability to “absorb” immigrants is greater today than it was in the past.
Freedom of Immigration for Rights Respecting Individuals
We need to make a beginning toward the establishment of freedom of immigration for all rights-respecting individuals.
Mr President, End These Covid-19 Travel Restrictions Now!
For almost three years now, many wonderful artists, intellectuals, students, business professionals, and musicians have been locked out of US borders, even just to tour around and see this great land and meet up with friends. It’s simply barbaric and yet there it is.
Give Hong Kong Residents a Path to U.S. Citizenship
Hong Kongers would make outstanding Americans if they aren’t already in spirit.
Why I Love America
“America is, and always will be, a shining City on a Hill.” – Ronald Reagan
Democrats Against Illegal Immigration
Take the ‘Racist Xenophobe’ Quiz!
The Case Against Immigration Quotas
If quotas on immigration are an essential tool for protecting us Americans from being terrorized on our own soil, why do we still have no quotas on foreigners who come to America as visitors? Must someone be a resident of the U.S. in order to unleash terror in America?
Book Review: The Invention of the Passport
How and why governments have used the power of issuing official travel documents as a means of restricting the free movement of people during the last 200 years.
Freedom: Why Immigrants Come to America
America! The word has meant hope, opportunity and freedom for tens of millions of people over the last two and half centuries. For a good part of those 250 years, the words on the Stature of Liberty in New York harbor have rang true: “Give me your tired, your...
Politics of Immigration: Why Today’s Democrats Support Illegal Immigration
The Democratic Party’s changing position on illegal immigration is based on the lust for political power over moral principle.
On Immigration, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry Discover Their Inner Trump
At one time, Democrats all warned about the problems associated with illegal immigration.
Immigration is a Moral Issue
In the name of individual rights, we should dismantle the entire bureaucracy of immigration restrictions
Immigration, Islamism, and The Nature of Individual Rights
Do all people have a right to immigrate to the U.S.?
Immigration: Free Will and Free Borders
How today’s widespread acceptance of determinism has made many people suspicious of immigration.
Economic Fallacies Surrounding The Issue of Immigration
There are many economic fallacies that surround the issue of freer or open immigration into the United States, and few of them can stand up to serious critical examination.
Immigration and End of the American Melting Pot
America was once a “melting pot” of a diversity peoples that over several generations become something different from their ancestors’ national origins: they became Americans.
Middle East Refugees, Immigration and Assimilation
Obama may think of himself as a citizen of the world, but he was elected President of the United States, not head of a world government, and that does not authorize him to gamble the lives of Americans for the benefit of people in other countries.
Lessons from Europe on Intolerant Immigrants
Europe provides a valuable lesson for Americans — on what not to do.
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