Immigration Reform: The Monsters Under the Bed
By John P. Cochran
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
From the University of Chicago’ John H. Cochrane a very good read on the dangers to liberty built into the Senate version of “immigration reform” in today’s WSJ. See: “ Think Government Is Intrusive Now? Wait Until E-Verify Kicks In – There’s a monster lurking in proposed immigration reform, one that bureaucrats will find irresistible.”
Highlights:
- Massive border security and E-Verify are central provisions of the
Senate immigration bill, and they are supported by many in the House.
Both provisions signal how wrong-headed much of the immigration-reform
effort has become.
- Every tyranny silences opponents by controlling their ability to earn
a living. How is it that so many supposedly freedom-loving,
small-government Republicans want to arm our nation’s politicized
bureaucracy -- fresh from the scandals at the IRS and elsewhere -- with
the power to do just that? Why are we so afraid of immigrants that we
would jeopardize this most basic guarantee of our political
liberties?
- In the current vision of immigration reform, millions will still be
trying to sneak in, and millions more will remain here working illegally.
E-Verify and the border security wall prove it. If people could work
legally, there would be no need for a system that endangers everyone’s
liberty to “verify” them[emphasis mine]. And there would be no need to
build a $45-billion monument to imperial decline -- our bid to outdo the
walls of Hadrian, China and Berlin -- to stop them.
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