Monday, December 05, 2011
"Thomas Sowell On Gingrich And Immigration"
Immigration laws have not be enforced very well for a very long time.
In fact, for so long, that we are likely forgetting their original intent...
In fact, for so long, that we are likely forgetting their original intent...
Thomas Sowell has some interesting points in his article at Investors.com:
"The more doctrinaire libertarians see the benefits of free international trade in goods, and extend the same reasoning to free international movement of people. But goods do not bring a culture with them. Nor do they give birth to other goods to perpetuate that culture.
Why do people want to come to America in the first place? Because America offers them something that their native countries do not. This country has a culture which has produced a higher standard of living and a freer life than in many other countries.
When you import people, you import cultures, including cultures that have been far less successful in providing decent lives and decent livelihoods. The American people have a right to decide for themselves whether they want unlimited imports of cultures from other countries."
