Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Immigration

  • I’m not Totally Opposed to Open Borders

    I'm for half-open borders, borders open in the outbound direction.  Anyone who wants to emigrate should be allowed to do so.  Communists need walls to keep people in, we need walls to keep them out.  Hence the rank absurdity of the comparison of a wall on our southern border to the Berlin Wall.  Now the…

  • Build the Wall

    In this PragerU video, Charles Krauthammer presents a workable and humane solution to the problem of illegal immigration. About five and one half minutes long.

  • Quotation of the Day

    From Malcolm Pollack's Cower of London entry: When you won’t build a wall around your country, you must build walls around everything inside your country. Along the same lines, is it not insane for Western countries to expend blood and treasure battling ISIS and other Islamist terror groups in their lands while allowing Muslims to…

  • Time for a Moratorium on Immigration from Muslim Lands?

    Here we go again. The third terrorist attack in the U. K. since March of this year. And so time to re-run the following entry from 5 December 2015. Please think it through for your own good and that of your descendants. …………. And now San Bernardino.  It is surely 'interesting' that in supposedly conservative…

  • Immigration Policy Comes First

    I have been discussing Islamist terrorism with a couple of Brits who are open to the sorts of things I say. One of them I know is a conservative; the other I think is.  What struck me is that both make a curious lefty move.  The move is well-described by Heather Mac Donald: Defenders of…

  • Andrew C. McCarthy on the Islamist Challenge to Religious Liberty

    McCarthy knows this subject from the inside and sees things with blinding clarity: . . . the challenge of Islam must be confronted head-on and without apology. That is unavoidable. You can’t flinch. It is a certainty that the Democrat-media complex — of which Islamist organizations are members in good standing — is going to…

  • From the Mail Bag: Islam and the West

    This from a U. K. reader: You wrote: So what measures should we in the West take?   I will mention just the most obvious and most important one: severely curtail Muslim immigration.  There is no right to immigrate, and correspondingly, we are under no obligation to let in subversive elements.    We have a culture…

  • Paul Gottfried contra New York Magazine re: ‘White Nationalism’

    Here: As for me, I can’t understand how my work of almost 50 years amounts to a “nativist strategy.” Most of what I’ve published is scholarship on various historical subjects and hardly a strategy for promoting whiteness or ethno-nationalism. What I have argued when writing political polemics is the following: States that are culturally homogeneous…

  • What Does America First Mean?

    America First does not mean that that the USA ought to be first over other countries, dominating them.  It means that every country has the right to prefer itself and its own interests over the interests of other countries. This is compatible with respecting other countries' interests and right to self-determination.  So America First has…

  • A Nation of Immigrants . . .

    . . . but only if they assimilate.

  • With Trump the Rule of Law Returns

    Andrew C. McCarthy is always good.

  • Is Illegal Immigration a Crime?

    It is. 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 committed a crime.  If a foreign national enters the country on a valid travel or work visa,…

  • A Berlin-Style Wall?

    The pointlessness of much contemporary political discourse was brought home to me once again last night. One Giselle Fernández was a guest on the O'Reilly Factor. In a blatant display of typical liberal-left mendacity she referred twice to a southern border wall as a "Berlin-style wall."  Perhaps the best evidence of the greatness of America and…

  • What’s Wrong with Illegal Immigration?

    1. First of all, we must insist on a distinction that many on the Left willfully ignore, that between legal and illegal immigration. (Libertarians also typically elide the distinction.)  Legal and illegal immigration are separate, logically independent, issues. To oppose illegal immigration, as any right-thinking person must, is not to oppose legal immigration. So no…

  • James Kalb on Illegal Immigration

    This is a re-run from 24 April 2010.  The quotation from James Kalb is worth studying.   But the times they are a'changin' and with Trump in the saddle, a man with the cojones to punch back hard against destructive leftards and quisling wimp-cons, we are likely to see some improvement.   Trump's dressing-down yesterday…