Immigration
Immigration Policy and the Consent of the Governed
April 9, 2019By Arthur Milikh
Today, the fanaticism of activists, the ambitions of elite political operatives, and the passive passions of an apolitical public combine to determine our nation's immigration policy.
In observing the situation at our southern border, one is reminded of Alexander's Hamilton's words in Federalist 15: “We may indeed with propriety be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. There is scarcely anything that can wound the pride or degrade the character of an independent nation which we do not experience.”
In March, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stopped over 100,000 illegal migrants from crossing our southern border. That is the equivalent of ten army divisions. Any other nation would call the streaming in of 100,000 aliens—unannounced, uninvited, unvetted, and in flagrant disregard of our remarkably humane asylum policy—an invasion. But not us. We are told by our elites that to call it such is immoral.
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