Immigrants did not cause America's problems - Americans voted for economic strangulations (e.g. Antitrust), extortion/slavery (e.g. 16th Amendment), the New Deal, and other tyrannical laws. Americans sanction politicians who gestapo job creators and protect government Goliaths (e.g. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac).
Thomas Jefferson on immigration:
"I hold the right of expatriation to be inherent in every man by the laws of nature, and incapable of being rightfully taken from him even by the united will of every other person in the nation. If the laws have provided no particular mode by which the right of expatriation may be exercised, the individual may do it by any effectual and unequivocal act or declaration." --Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1806. FE 8:458More here: http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1280.htm
"Expatriation [is] a natural right, and acted on as such by all nations in all ages." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:12
"Our ancestors... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice, has placed them, of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as, to them, shall seem most likely to promote public happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. ME 1:185, Papers 1:121
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"If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in... pursuit of happiness." --Thomas Jefferson to John Manners, 1817. ME 15:124
I go by Jeffersonian principles. Thomas Jefferson said that immigration is a natural right, but his words are within the context that the government's only proper function is "to secure [equal inherent inalienable] rights", that there is no coerced charity, that immigrants would not be a burden to anyone.
Rubio is pushing for his Dream Act in time for this fall college semester. He ties immigration to higher learning welfare. In freedom there is a separation between government, which is FORCE, and rights-respecters. That is, there is a separation between government and faith/non-faith, economics, education, science, art, etc. To me, the Dream Act issues are coerced welfare and buying votes.
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/05/immigration-coerced-welfare.html
The immigration argument should be tied to the coerced welfare and multiculturalism evils as well as the terrorism problem.
I agree with Jeffersonian principles. Thomas Jefferson said that immigration is a natural right, but his words are within the context that the government's only proper function is "to secure [equal inherent inalienable] rights", that there is no coerced welfare, and that immigrants would not be a burden to anyone.
- Ilyn Ross, May 30, 2010
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