Perhaps the varying positions on the current
immigration crises can be categorized into three buckets:
A.
The Conservative Position – “They
broke our laws, round ‘em up and deport them.”
This in not going happen, not with this President or with this Senate. Nor is it necessarily the right thing to do. Do we really expect the Feds to do a clean and surgical job of breaking into people’s home and carting them away?
This in not going happen, not with this President or with this Senate. Nor is it necessarily the right thing to do. Do we really expect the Feds to do a clean and surgical job of breaking into people’s home and carting them away?
B.
The Libertarian Position – “Let
‘em stay and then sink or swim on their own merits just like in bygone
days.” This is also a pipe
dream. Clearly many immigrants will
become productive, self supporting citizens and a handful will even become
shining success stories. But many will also flounder and today’s America will
not let them hit bottom. Like it or not,
many will become long term wards of the welfare state.
C.
The Progressive Position – “Bring
it on. We’ll take care of as many that
come for as long as necessary.” This
is untenable and immoral. It is the embodiment of Margaret Thatcher’s axiom
that, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money.”
The reality is that most of the immigrants are
here to stay and that, within a generation, about 30% of Americans will boast
of at least some Latino lineage. That
voting bloc will nurture fond memories of those whom they believe were good to
them and harbor resentments against those who were not.
My immigrant grandfather was an ardent New Deal
Democrat. Franklin Roosevelt was a god
in his home. Not only did he vote
Democrat until the day that he died, so did my Dad, except for that brief
moment when crazy long-hairs were burning flags in Sixties.
Liberals are building an electoral force that
may persist through the end of this century.
What to do?
Let me suggest a course of voluntary, positive
action to put immigrants on the path of becoming liberty loving Americans.
We all know that the Federal government is
using our tax dollars to collect up immigrants and stash them away in empty
spaces throughout the country. In
effect, they are planting the seeds of future political domination in each and
every state.
Freedom lovers can do the same. Big money libertarians and conservatives such
as the Koch Brothers should begin to pony up money to take immigrants out of
government hands and to place them into what I would call Liberty Boot
Camps. Additional funding should come
from the many American CEOs who are calling for immigration reform in order
create a cheaper labor pool.
In Liberty Boot Camp, newcomers would learn the
skills needed to survive in America and also be exposed the virtuous philosophy
of free markets, personal freedom and individual responsibility. Likewise they would be taught about the
horrors of overbearing and intrusive government.
As 501c3 organizations, these camps would
divert massive sums of money from government hands. That can never be bad.
Such a project should not rely only on checks
written by the big guys. Think tank
scholars from places like Cato, Mises, Acton, Heartland, Heritage and the
Manhattan institutes should design and teach an easy to learn freedom
curriculum. Ordinary, everyday people
can volunteer to help out. Not only will
this cut costs but it will allow immigrants to interact with friendly and
helpful Americans who cherish the American virtues of self reliance, neighborly
support and individual responsibility.
Think of this as one big Church-type mission to spread the liberty
gospel.
Finally, let’s get the newcomers to work. If we cannot get minimum wage requirements waived
for camp residents, let’s find a way to put them into “work study”, internship of
apprenticeship programs where they can gain skills to be self supporting and to
set out on their own. Perhaps the CEOs could create programs within their
companies.
I know that this sounds ambitious and
expensive. I am not a Pollyanna. But do remember that billions of your tax
dollars are already being spent to build a Progressive dynasty for decades to
come. It is the Tammany Hall and Chicago
patronage model on a grand scale.
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