Razib offers: “i would…
Razib offers: “i would also like to note that i am open to the idea of people paying a non-trivial fee to come to the united states.”
If I am from Guadalajara and the local Piggly-Wiggly offers me a job in stocking, and my family in the United States invites me to come live with them and the local Piggly-Wiggly offers me a job in stocking, what gives the government the right to demand a lump-sum tax from me in order to “let” me stay where I have been willingly invited? What gives them the right to point a gun at me and force me to go back home if I’m not interested in paying their protection money?