It is being done in the name of immigration enforcement and cracking down on illegals. ---- and totally justified
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. is just another catholic trying to thwart our immigration laws and an idiot. On May 31, 8:04 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > The Tragedy of Immigration Enforcementby Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.Here’s the > problem. If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in > the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice. This > is true in a host of areas from welfare to warfare, but it is even true in > the complicated area of immigration. > Just imagine this. The owners of Chuy's Mesquite Broiler in Phoenix and 13 > other locations around western states have been kidnapped from their popular > restaurants and dragged to jail. This will be followed by trial, and certain > personal bankruptcy. They could face 80 years in prison. In the raid, > "Homeland Security" stole their computers, their accounting and employment > records, and walked out the door – just like a gang of thieves. The only > difference is that these thugs operate under the cover of the law. > And what evil did these restaurateurs do? Were they poisoning people, > stealing customers’ wallets, secretly running an assassination conspiracy, > sending in the predator drones against people they hate, or what? To lock > anyone away for life is a shocking sentence, so surely the punishment must > fit the crime. Pyscho sniper-murderers have gotten less. > What they are alleged to have done is hired people who don’t have the proper > bureaucratic forms filled out for them. That’s all. Nothing more. It is being > done in the name of immigration enforcement and cracking down on illegals. > The workers themselves are untouched by any of this. Their benefactors – and > the benefactors of society – are the ones being targeted with police-state > tactics. > The government is busting up a whole series of voluntary labor relationships > that are designed to provide people with good food. Let us be clear: to the > extent that many people object to illegal immigration, it has nothing to do > with those who go to work and make an honest living doing things like working > in restaurants. The problem with illegal immigration is related to other > issues that drive people crazy, like going on welfare, engaging in actual > (not pretend) crime, and demanding tax-funded support services. > People finding jobs to do and other wonderful commercial things is a > praiseworthy aspect of immigration, legal or illegal. In fact, there are > millions of jobs in this country that would simply not be done at the current > price without such immigration, and this is true in a vast range of > industries from housing to horticulture. American natives think too highly of > themselves to accept these jobs at the market price. > And it is this very thing that government, given the power to enforce > immigration statutes, wants to crack down on, not by rounding up workers, > which would be bad enough, but by criminally prosecuting the business owners > themselves, the people who are not only providing jobs but also providing > good food for the public. The whole thing boggles the mind. > But the utilitarian will object. Yes, these tactics are rough, with results > that are regrettable for property owners and those who like to dine out, but > at least it helps address our nation’s problems with illegal immigration. > But will it? If mainstream employers are afraid of lifetime jail terms, they > will not hire. And that leaves only marginal employers to pick up the slack. > These include drug operations, fly-by-night underground businesses, gray > markets, prostitution rings, and other things from the seedier side of life. > Or the result could be no employment at all, which means turning to crime > itself. In other words, these efforts attempt to stop the best part of > immigration and enhance the worst. For this we can thank the government. > Try to think of this issue in terms of the risk to attempting illegal > immigration. No one on the other side of the border, faced with a porous > fence, is thinking: I’ll take this risk only on the condition that I can go > to work for Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler. > No, they will come anyway. In order to eliminate every possible job > opportunity for immigrants, the Obama administration will have to jail and > terrorize vast numbers, destroying the commercial life of major swaths of the > country. This is a catastrophic plan that amounts to a fundamental attack on > liberty, and the nationalization of the service industry. (I should add that > I prefer illegal immigration to legal, since we have far too many citizens > able to vote themselves other people’s property, and too few people who want > to work hard for a living.) > Just as George Bush used national security as the great excuse to shred the > Bill of Rights, the Obama administration is using illegal immigration as the > excuse to achieve the socialist dream of bringing employer-employee relations > entirely under government purview. It is a form of micro-nationalization. > And why? Socialist ideology plays a role here, and another authoritarian > anti-market ideology, protectionism. But if you look closely enough at this > enforcement, you will find the hand of Obama affiliated big labor unions at > work behind the scenes. It’s not that they are against immigrants. The unions > hate any employee who works for the going market wage. As their power and > influence continues to fall, if not in DC, they are resorting to ever more > desperate tactics to shore up their slipping cartel. > You can see, then, that this crack down has nothing to do with nationalism or > racialism or securing the borders or anything else. It is all about > bolstering the power of the state and its unions over the American economy, > and making the rest of us > poorer.http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/tragedy-of-immigration-enforcement181.html -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
