The federal government didn’t take charge of immigration policy until the 1880s. In the early republic, almost everyone agreed that immigration policy was a matter for the states.
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That moment when you realize that States exist in a relationship of actual anarchy with other States. Note: the AI summary above omitted one highly important “V” word between “are” and “bound by”. Can you guess it? submitted by /u/MattTheAncap [link] [comments]
President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail that he’d go after Mexico’s drug cartels, which he claimed in January “essentially run” that country. Since taking office, he has leaned on militaristic tactics to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., an approach that invites conflict—and plenty of collateral damage. In January, when Fox News asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth whether the administration would use the military against cartels, he replied that “all options will be on the table.” In February, […]
In 1997, a group of future members of George W. Bush’s administration co-signed onto the “Project for the New American Century.“ The statement of its core principles declared: “we need to accept responsibility for America’s unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.“ In the following years, the Bush administration in the Middle East occupied Iraq using fabricated allegations of its development of weapons of mass destruction and in the following years attacked other […]
President Trump has threatened to use the armed forces to go after the drug cartels in Mexico. While the idea might be popular with some, it can only lead to disaster as things surely will spiral out of control.
