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If the choice is between a welfare state and a police state (I despise both), I know which one I would choose.

He who wills the end, wills the means. Serious immigration restriction requires police-state measures.

Simply put, if you want what others have produced, you have to offer them something they want in trade.

Border crossing without government permission is a victimless crime.

Think of all the horrible things that can happen in the absence of a total surveillance state. Is that an argument for the surveillance state?

If you can't see the difference between a Stop sign at an intersection and a Do Not Enter sign at a border, you need an eye doctor.

Libertarians don't bat an eye over law-breakers who violate no rights. But when it's a person without papers -- watch out!

Statists have long tried to scare people into supporting big government. Today even some libertarians do it. It's a topsy-turvy world.

Dear Free Speech Absolutists: I assume it's okay with you if businessmen discuss pricing strategies among themselves. It's fine by me.

What's the point of being the exceptional nation if you can't throw your weight around?

The anti-free-immigrationists know where they want to go and are prepared to pay any price in other people's freedom to get there. The questions are: why do they want to go there, and what aren't they telling us?

Life is inherently risky. In a world of nation-states, do we want a state powerful enough to address all conceivable risks? If so, what else is it likely to be capable of?

When ICE agents burst into restaurant kitchens to round up people without papers, are they trespassers? How about when agents take property by eminent domain to build border fences? Is that trespass and theft? Immigrants don't do that.

Anti-state anti-immigrationists don't hate the state enough.

The essential case for liberty has never been a matter of data. (Sorry, consequentialists.) It's been a matter of moral principle.

If drugs were legalized, more people would use "public" health services. Same if people could ride motorcycles without helmets or ride in cars without seatbelts. Should libertarians oppose those freedoms because people might use tax-funded programs?

The regime intends to rid America of all "undocumented" persons. But a free society would not have *documented* persons. That's how far down we've gone.

Welfare recipients are not aggressors. The aggressors are the tax collectors and the politicians who empower them.

Libertarian border guardians say there's no freedom to move because other people own property. (We never thought of that one!) By the same standard, there's no freedom of speech.

If capitalism is about survival of the fittest, why do capitalists mass produce inexpensive eyeglasses, hearing aids, etc.? Why do they promote the flourishing of the "unfit"?

Libertarian border guardians say there's no freedom to move because other people own property. (We never thought of that one!) By the same standard, there's no freedom of speech.

How great is this: You can get fabulously rich by providing valued goods and services to the masses. Wow!

If you had told people that [see above] a few hundred years ago, you'd have been locked up in a looney bin.