Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Immigration

  • What Our National Survival Depends On

    Our great founders understood that immigrants bring their culture with them, and that some cultures are toxic to our own.  They understood that there can be no comity without commonality, that immigration without assimilation is a recipe for disaster, and that unity, not diversity, is the source of our strength. As Alexander Hamilton warned, America’s survival…

  • ‘Asylum Seekers’

    Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.  So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic 'progressive' abuse of language. You should have learned by now that no word or phrase is safe…

  • Border Defeatism and an Old Debate Revisited

    The demented Dems are defeatists in several different ways. A pox be upon them and the fools who support them. Here is Facebook post of mine from 21 July 2022, with addenda. ………………… BORDER DEFEATISM   "Build a 20 foot wall, and they'll show up with a 21 foot ladder." Geraldo Rivera has said things…

  • Abusus non tollit usum

    The abuse of a thing is no argument against its proper use. For example, the occasional abuse of State power by its agents is entirely consistent with the State's moral legitimacy.   You say you don't like the roundup of illegal aliens and their incarceration in detention centers such as the one in the heart of…

  • Trump Admin to Cut Off HEAD START for Illegals

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday. The move is part of a broad effort to limit access to federal benefits for immigrants who lack legal status. Translation: Illegal aliens will…

  • Is the U-Haul the Vehicle of Peaceful Coexistence?

    You may have noticed that our relations with some people improve when we no longer have contact with them. Now while we can and must round up and deport illegal aliens, our classically liberal principles make it very difficult to force out of our midst those of our political adversaries who count as out-and-out political…

  • Is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ a Concentration Camp?

    It is according to the author of a TNR article.  I don't disagree.  After all, the bad hombres are being held against their will in one place prior to their deportation. The conclusion to draw, of course, is that some concentration camps are morally justified. This one is also legally justified. President Trump is merely…

  • Alligator Alcatraz

    Leftist environmentalists are bringing suit to block the construction of a detention center for illegal aliens in the heart of the Everglades. This should interest Sarasota resident and fellow philosopher Elliott Ruffin Crozat who paid me a visit over the last three days. You can imagine the 'orgy' of philosophizing that took place, both peripatetically…

  • Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment

    Robert Kuttner, in a piece entitled Supreme Contempt for the Constitution, writes, The Supreme Court issued a shocking ruling today, making it easier for President Donald Trump to overturn birthright citizenship. The way the Court did it was in keeping with its disingenuous strategy of using technicalities that allow it to duck the underlying question.…

  • Dems and Deportation

    Democrats upset over deportations ought to look in the mirror. Prior to Biden-Harris they did little to secure the nation's borders, and by supporting Biden-Harris they embraced the  destructive open-border policy of that administration. That nations need enforceable and enforced borders not merely to flourish, but to continue to exist, is well-nigh self-evident.  Those in…

  • Birthright Citizenship

    An important article. Mercifully brief. Double hat tip: Mark Levin, Tony Flood. Do your bit and propagate it. The crucial phrase: "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."  Critics claim that anyone born in the United States is automatically a U.S. citizen, even if their parents are here illegally. But that ignores the text and legislative history…

  • NGO Pope Commits ‘Ecclesiastical Suicide’

    Rod Dreher: Elsewhere in the epistle, Francis implicitly condemns Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, for misunderstanding the Church’s teaching on ordo amoris—the order of love. Vance, a convert who was catechized by two of the most intelligent Dominican priests in America (I introduced him personally to his first teacher), had defended the administration’s tough…

  • Is Illegal Immigration a Crime?

    Over at the Stack. It is. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats lied to us about this. Illegal immigrants are subject to criminal penalties. While improper entry is a crime, unlawful presence is not a crime. One can be unlawfully present in the U. S. without having entered improperly, and thus without having…

  • Enforcement of Borders is neither ‘Draconian’ nor ‘Xenophobic’

    I just heard a Democrat politician refer to the The Trump-Homan border crackdown as 'draconian' and 'xenophobic.' It is neither. It is not cruel or severe. Although you may think that 'severe' is  etymologically related to 'sever,' it is not. To witness a penology that includes beheading and limb amputation you will have to take…

  • Integration, Free Association, Open Immigration

    An addendum to The Integrationist Fantasy. Forced integration violates the right to free association. To add to both the irony and the outrage, the integrators refuse to integrate with the integrated. Open immigration is not only in open defiance of the rule of law, it also leads to a particularly offensive form of forced integration,…