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April 28, 2006
Immigration: The Heart Of The Matter
Speaking on the immigration crisis, Mensa Barbie puts it plain:
International law requires four criteria for a functioning, sovereign state: Permanent population, a recognized territory, a functioning government and the capability to conduct international relations.
Emphasis in the original. This echoes a point I've made before, and I think it's so fundamental it bears repeating:
It appears to me that the arguments made by the pro-illegal immigration side all are based on one lynchpin assumption: that the United States has no inherent right to make laws regulating its own borders; any laws so enacted need not be adhered to by those wishing to come here from Mexico.Every pro-illegal pundit starts by ignoring the basic illegality of the immigrants' status. This is more than just an argument about a possibly prejudicial label; it strikes straight through to the subject of "what are the inherent rights of a sovereign state?"
Lots of commentators have made this point implicitly, but Mensa Barbie is one of the few bloggers I've found who explicitly locates the crux of the argument exactly where it belongs: in international law and the rights of all sovereign nations. In a way, it's a distillation of the miasma of multiculturalism that's seeped into every crack of American life. Just as multiculturalism champions every culture except that of the United States, so do the reconquistas allow a blatant double standard by seeking to prohibit US enforcement of laws that every other country of the world enforces without question.
I know, I know...not all voices on the pro-illegal side are as radical as the reconquistas, but the underlying point remains: the US has the absolute right to enforce its own immigration laws.
And only after the borders are secured can we turn to the issue of the resident illegals.
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