I've Said It Before

And I will say it again. Government regulation is the reason we have illegal immigrants.

I am SICK and TIRED of ignorant dumbasses (conservatives) saying that the government needs to crackdown on illegals and keep them out of the country, without even realizing that it is the government itself that has created the problem in the first place! They bitch and moan about how illegals and mexicans are taking their jobs, and then expect the GOD DAMN GOVERNMENT to be able to fix their problems. They are the problem!

The American worker is, studies have shown, getting older and smarter. The low-level labor jobs that used to be filled by American workers are no longer needed by them. They are moving into better, higher paying jobs that usually require education and experience. You know who is filling those jobs that we've left (like construction and other blue-collar jobs)? IMMIGRANTS! Without them, we'd have a serious economic problem!

But, the god damn government and these conservative - and some liberal - assholes keep passing laws that RESTRICT immigration. In order to fill those jobs that the average American worker is leaving, people - mostly hispanics - have to become "illegal immigrants" because the government has made it damn near impossible to get here in the first place! By restricting it, you have not reduced the amount of illegals, you've actually introduced illegality to it!

But they still don't fucking get it. They preach limited government, and then when it actually comes down to it, they want to make it bigger. As a libertarian, let me be the first to tell you: limited government does not only apply to the economy, it applies to society AS A WHOLE! A free market requires a free supply of labor. Otherwise, you could have severe shortages or surpluses of labor. Labor, like any good or service, is governed by the laws of supply and demand. By restricting labor, the government has fucked too much with the system.

Get it through your heads. Immigrants have every right to live and work here, just as much as we do.

A Funny Thing About Freedom

I've been thinking a lot today, as I often do when I'm tired and not paying attention to what's ACTUALLY happening, about immigration. Why is it that some people are so afraid of immigrants? What gives people this idea that freedom only applies to us, the legal American citizens? Because it most certainly doesn't matter whether you are legal or illegal.

Those immigrants that cross the border have as much right to freedom as any other person in the world. The ability to seek opportunity and ensure your own prosperity is a natural right, one that is not determined by citizenship but by existence. There is no difference, on a human level, between me, you, and that man who just crossed over so that he could make money for his famiy. That man, like any of us, is just trying to make his life better. What's so evil about this?

Then you get these nutjobs, both liberal and conservative, who feel that the border is not tight enough and that we need to do shit like build fences and send in the national guard. How could the answer to this situation be anything close to that? These immigrants are people like us just trying to survive. America is the one place in the world that gives them the freedom to do so and you want to do what? Arrest them, or deport them as if they are bad people? These immigrants have as much right to the freedom of opportunity that we do, and it is high time we realize that and stop treating them as invaders.

It's a funny thing about freedom: it doesn't end at the border.

Is Immigration Evil or Something?

So, this Monday, the Arizona Senate is going to vote on a new immigration bill that already passed the House (completely on party lines, I might add). This bill would make being in the country illegally a state crime, and require that state police enforce federal immigration laws, something that they couldn't do before.

This can't be good.

Essentially, Arizona police now have the right to pull over anyone they suspect of being here illegally and ask them to produce a proof of citizenship on the spot. If you can't? Guess what, your existence has become a class 1 misdemeanor.

Now, let's go ahead and look at the first problem with this bullshit regulation. Probable cause is necessary for the police to force anyone to show them any identification. They do not have the constitutional ability to randomly ask, based on their initial judgment of a person, for identification. They MUST have probable cause.

The SAME GOES FOR IMMIGRATION. You cannot randomly ask, based on nothing but pure instinct, a person to show identification. The government does not have this right, nor does the police!

But, what has the government gone and done? They've given more power to the police - including, more importantly, Sheriff Joe (douchebag) - that will allow them to profile and arrest not only illegal immigrants but those who employ them with or without knowledge of their status. This cannot possibly have been the idea of a smart, rational human being.

In fact, immigration restrictions as a whole could not have been thought up by rational human beings. In order for a free market to function properly, you must have a free flow of labor. Labor is an essential product, much like any other good or service, that should have limited restrictions because making it illegal causes more problems than it creates. America has, as one of its many virtues, an ever expanding job market. We, the average American worker (which studies have shown are growing older and smarter) are not filling those jobs. So, who's left to fill them? I can tell you now that it's not the legal, American workers. It's the immigrants who come here because of the increased opportunity from Mexico. Immigration restrictions make it harder for legal workers to get here, so they have to resort to being undocumented and immigrating illegally. Immigration restrictions have created the problem of illegal immigration.

There are 470,000 people living in Arizona, illegally, right at this moment. When large numbers of decent, hardworking people violate a law, why do we assume that it's the fault of the people? These people work hard to keep America running, yet all we do is fight them off at the border with fucking ugly fences and old, white, douchebag minutemen. At this point, when there are SO many violators of this law, the LAW HAS BECOME THE PROBLEM. Law works best when it revolves around the way people ACTUALLY structure their lives, not by attempting to reverse them.

This bill only makes it worse. You want to fix the immigration problem America? Let everyone who comes over get visas and work for their citizenship. Let the market decide how many workers it needs and doesn't need. Don't restrict the amount people that can get in, or force them to wait 10 years to get approved. These things only create illegal immigration, not stop it. People are always looking to America for jobs; putting up a fucking fence won't make them go away.