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Why “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is Failing in Congress. |
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Written by Simon
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
The Government really should not
have the right to decide where people can live. People should have the
right to decide where they live.
Peter Drucker wrote that one of the ways to know that your basic
assumptions about a situation are wrong is that you have to make the
existing system more and more complex to keep it operating. This is the
situation with immigration to the United States. We as a people are on
both sides of the issue. Many people say “illegal is illegal” but don’t
condone massive deportations. Many people want more “employer
sanctions” but don’t want a national ID card system. Many people want
more border barriers but are repelled by the idea of “the new Berlin
wall” and people dying in the desert.
The reason for all of these conflicted opinions is that there is a flaw
in one of the underlying assumptions. The Government really should not
have the right to decide where people can live. People should have the
right to decide where they live. Until we get this part right and start
to manage the flow of people we will continue to face more and more
unpalatable and unworkable solutions to the “problem.”
The rights of the settled people have to be recognized. They should not
have to support new immigrants nor should they have to change their
culture or language. But they also should not have the right to slam
the door on immigrants who are willing to pay their own way and adapt
to the culture that attracted them.
How can this be accomplished? At Radical Immigration think that The One Percent Solution and The Immigrants Code
are a good places to start. We also think that these sensible
approaches will allow the United States to continue to prosper in the
years ahead.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 16 June 2007 )
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