{"id":2161,"date":"2022-03-22T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/a-response-to-liccione-on-border-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:32:57","slug":"a-response-to-liccione-on-border-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/a-response-to-liccione-on-border-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Response to Liccione on Border Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From my Facebook page, 22 March 2019<\/span><\/div>\n
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Michael Liccione writes,<\/span><\/div>\n
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Totally open borders would be a surrender of sovereignty. Totally closed borders would be inhumane. There must surely be a via media that would be neither. But Washington seems unable to define it, because both Capitol Hill and the White House see more to be gained by political posturing than by working together on finding it. And that, my friends, is the problem–in this area as in so many others.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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1. Who is for totally closed borders? No conservative of note. Certainly not Trump. Conservatives oppose illegal immigration, but not legal immigration. Nor do they oppose asylum provisions. They oppose the misuse thereof.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2. You can't look for a *via media* where there is a false alternative.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3. There is no moral equivalence between Capitol Hill and the White House. The House Dems and the the anti-Trump Republicans are pursuing a dangerous and morally irresponsible course. Trump is not posturing. He is doing what must be done under the circumstances.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4. Work together? Come on Michael Liccione<\/span><\/a>. I don't mean this personally. I like you and I respect you. But, with all due respect, you are not thinking clearly. You can't work together with a Speaker of the House who incoherently babbles about walls being immoral and her colleagues who wax Orwellian in their advocacy of border security without border barriers. You can't work together with political opponents whose transparent motive is to win demographically by flooding the country with 'undocumented Democrats.'<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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5. One last shot. Some 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam over a 20 year period. Some 70,000 American died of drugs last year alone due in large part to a porous border. Does that concern you? And that is JUST ONE problem with lax border enforcement.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And now, three years later, it is easy to see just how right Trump was on all the issues Biden is wrong on. Biden has proven to be a disaster on all fronts, foreign and domestic.  The United States and the world are incalculably worse off now than they were when Donald J. Trump was president.  In particular, had he been reelected, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Weakness invites aggression, especially when amalgamated with senility and leftist nonsense.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my Facebook page, 22 March 2019   Michael Liccione writes,   Totally open borders would be a surrender of sovereignty. Totally closed borders would be inhumane. There must surely be a via media that would be neither. But Washington seems unable to define it, because both Capitol Hill and the White House see more … Continue reading “A Response to Liccione on Border Enforcement”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,245,431,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-polemics","category-political-equivalentism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}