But what about private…
But what about private efforts? Many of the illegals cross onto private land. Right now, the Federal Government forbids these private landowners from doing much of anything to restrict access to their property.
Could you give an example of how the Feds are doing this?
If immigrants are crossing onto private land with the permission of the owner, would you then recognize their right to be left alone by La Migra? Or does your concern about private property rights only extend to those who are trying to keep the mojados off their property?
As for public property, do the people who paid (against their will) for this public property have no say in the matter?
You do realize, don’t you, that this argument could be used to make “libertarian” excuses for absolutely any form of tyranny whatsoever that enjoyed majority support, don’t you? Since drug traffickers, women in prostitution, gamblers, “assault weapon” dealers, corporate managers, and anyone else doing business uses government roads and other “public property” on a daily basis, you could use this just as easily to support the War on Drugs, the War on Vice, gun control, the whole federal regulatory apparatus, etc. Thank goodness The People will have their say; I was afraid that being a libertarian might actually require me to hold out for freedom.
(From the standpoint of justice, the answer is that not everyone has an equal claim to rightful ownership of all the government property within the continental U.S. I have some claim to a share of rightful ownership of the road in front of my house, and maybe the major thoroughfare I take to work every day. I have much less of a claim to a share of rightful ownership of I-94. I have absolutely no just claim to any control over how roads by the border in El Paso or San Diego are disposed of. Those who not only fund them but also habitually use them have a claim. So rightful use can’t be determined by taking national polls: insofar as it can be determined at all — which is not very far, socialist calculation being impossible, but let’s set that aside — it will depend on the varying attitudes amongst road-users in each actual border town. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but since unscreened immigrants pay the same gasoline taxes that everyone else pays, and habitually use those roads, they have as good of a claim to a share in them as the native-born Americans.)
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