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The Federal War on Immigrants: Jacob Hornberger

The Federal War on Immigrants: Jacob Hornberger Speaks at the Tower Club

The Federal War on Immigrants

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Just about everything the federal government has done for the past 40 years is today in crisis — Social Security, healthcare, the drug war, foreign policy, the dollar — you name it, it’s in crisis. Unfortunately, the response of Washington policymakers to all these crises has been to move our nation even more in the direction of the socialism of the Soviet Union than the principles of freedom of our Founding Fathers. A good example of this phenomenon is the 40-year-old federal war on immigrants, which, not surprisingly, is also in crisis!

For example, there’s nothing the anti-immigrant crowd in Washington would love more than to build a new Berlin Wall along the southern border of the United States. They might not call it that because they’re embarrassed but make no mistake about it — that’s their ideal. And there are even people in Congress who have called for sending U.S. military forces onto the farms and ranches and communities in the Southwest in order to “seal” the border … just like in the Soviet Union.
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