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Posted: Tue 8:55, 06 Aug 2013 Post subject: As Matt Welch eloquently writes |
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signals like . . . skin color.I fully understand that illegal immigration causes a lot of problems in border areas, and that pro-immigration people are often too flip in dismissing these. But the problems are not so bad as to justify such broad and crude increases in the power of the state to hassle its citizens (or of citizens to hassle each other). As Matt Welch eloquently writes:I have sympathy for people who are freaked out by desperateimmigrants and ruthless smugglers trampling over their property insouthern Arizona, and as I've said elsewhere, us pro-immigranttypes too easily skate over rule-of-law objections. Federalimmigration policy is a failure, and poses real public policychallenges that no amount of righteous indignation and/orhandwaving makes disappear.But anti-illegal immigration crackdowns almost always end uprestricting freedom for the rest of us. And giving cops more poweris almost always felt more on the receiving end by people-includingpeople just as law-abiding as you and I-who
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