Supporting strong government immigration laws means to support government violating human rights

“As long as nations cling to protective tariffs, immigration barriers, compulsory education, interventionism, and statism, new conflicts capable of breaking out at any time into open warfare will continually arise to plague mankind.” -Ludwig Von Mises

It’s just another government war on something. With the result of violating civil liberties of all people. And the latest Republican talking point of not being able to lessen immigration laws because of the welfare state, is nothing but a strawman by statists. To say we need to have a huge failed government program, that requires large military, which in turn requires large taxes, solely because we have some other failed government program is ridiculous.

Here’s a little blurb from Bryan Caplan in 2020: “To effectively defend immigration restrictions, then, saying ‘human rights are not absolute’ is insufficient. You need to flatly deny that immigration is a human right – to say that while the illegal immigrants you meet on the street may look innocent, they’re actually guilty as hell. The most popular argument analogizes illegal immigrants to trespassers. No one has any right to be here without government permission; it’s our country, so we set the rules.

“The obvious problem with this position is that it justifies a vast range of blatant human rights abuses. If it’s our country and we set the rules, why can’t we exile citizens, too? Why can’t we imprison people for saying the wrong thing, practicing the wrong religion, or having kids without government permission? Saying, ‘that won’t happen,’ dodges the question: If the U.S. government did this to you, would it be violating your human rights or not?”