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I am for free enterprise and free men, and I believe freedom is the greatest culture of America.
I believe the overwhelming majority of immigrants come here to earn a living and better their life.
They do not come for welfare but for work. Certainly, I am for an end to the welfare state -
but for American citizens as well as immigrants alike. As a libertarian, I do not predicate
free association and movement upon the end to the welfare state. Yes, the welfare state
should be abolished, but immigrants should not be persecuted simply because of American's
continued love affair with their welfare state.
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Permit All to Work
It will be legal to employ non-citizens (no federal laws/sanctions against employers).
Workers simply seeking employment may enter, work, and return to their country. The misery and suffering of human trafficking will cease.
Immigrant detention centers where families are now imprisoned by private companies for nothing more than seeking refuge within our nation will be abolished.
Since I will end the federal government's counterproductive, costly, harmful failed 'war on drugs,' the violence currently resulting from drug trafficking from Mexico will cease.
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Meeting Jacob
Hornberger (President/Founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation & longtime libertarian activist),
and Walter Simons at the Illinois State LP Convention. |
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End All Subsidies
I will end all government incentives/subsidies provided to illegal immigrants.
Non-citizens will be responsible for paying their own cost of living or return to their nation of origin for services not provided here.
States and communities will be under no obligation from the federal government to provide any subsidies or other publicly funded services to non-citizens. Neither will local law enforcement agencies be ordered by the federal government to arrest and detain only those violating current federal immigration law.
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With Destri Gleim, Libertarian activist, in New Mexico |
It will be legal for any private group or individual to offer humanitarian assistance to non-citizens. Private charitable groups or organizations (be they formed by American citizens or by non-citizens) may create hospitals, clinics, schools, English-language instruction, civic studies, etc. for non-citizens free from government intrusion/regulation.
State's Rights
Because I oppose the federal government war on immigration, many have
asked me where I stand regarding state's rights. My position: I have
always recognized and respected the sovereignty of all states to make
and enforce whatever immigration related legislation they so choose.
The President nor bureaucrats in Washington, DC should be making the
decisions regarding immigration because each individual state and city
has its unique characteristics, culture, and economy which they know best.
Though I personally believe the benefits outweigh "costs" of immigrants,
I believe the citizens of said areas - not the President- are the best
ones to decide the fate of their communities free from federal mandates.
States rights mean their sovereign right to control the influences
and development of their society and its culture based upon their
citizens needs and desires, and thus states have the right to practice
democratic control over immigration matters in their states if they
so choose. The American citizens of states and cities will have
jurisdiction over non-citizens inhabiting their communities and can
legislate and enforce the policies/laws/ordinances and/or
entitlements/subsidies (if they so choose to provide them) that they
deem appropriate for their communities. Whether that means fences,
employment mandates, subsidies or no subsidies for non-citizens,
licensing...states/cities should decide for themselves the policies
right for their people. I think the federal government should be
taken out of the equation entirely.
American Civil Liberties Protected
A federal 'war on illegal immigration' would result in higher costs to you the taxpayer, more violence, more harassment of American businesses, invasions of your privacy, and less freedom overall for American citizens...and it would have no significant effect on immigration.
It would become yet another 'war' against you the American citizen stripping you of civil and economic liberty.
I reject any national ID card.
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