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A company that owns 11 McDonald's restaurants in Nevada was fined one million dollars Wednesday after pleading guilty to employing 58 illegal immigrants.The company, Mack Associates Inc., knew the employees were illegal immigrants and had offered them names and social security numbers belonging to other people, the US Justice Department said.
Of course, if the jobs dry up for illegals, we'd also need to ensure they couldn't draw unemployment or other benefits that should be reserved for citizens and legal residents. If we want to solve the problem, we have to stop enabling it.
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You seem to talk about "our national sovereignty" every so often, but I'm not always sure exactly who "our" refers to, or what exactly you mean by "sovereignty".
All men are created equal, right? And someone who happens to have been born in Alaska has the right to pursue happiness in Texas, right? So why shouldn't someone born in Mexico also have the right to pursue happiness in Texas? Or Nevada?
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I believe sovereignty in this sense is bound with the idea of freedom of association. The Declaration of Independence recognizes the inherent dignity of each human being, conveyed by the fact they are created in the image of their Creator. That does NOT mean all human-derived social systems are equal or desirable.
In an ideal world, the person born in Mexico should be free to 'pursue happiness' wherever it suits them...so long as he/she adapts to the system they found so attractive in the first place. The problem is that too many immigrants want the benefits produced by the system we inherited from our ancestors, without taking responsibility for perpetuating the common language, values and duties that made that prosperity possible.
As a nation, we have just as much right--more, even-- to reject such freeloaders as they do to "pursue happiness" here at our expense.
I hope this helps explain where I'm coming from. If not, please feel free to continue the conversation -- I may make it a main post at some point. It's always helpful to have someone ask me to define my terms and concepts.
Thanks for your response. I wonder, though: is it really more likely that someone born in Mexico will be a "freeloader"? Surely some people born in Alaska turn out to be freeloaders, too; how should you deal with them? And why should you deal differently with freeloaders born outside the USA?
I'm also curious about your comment about language. Do you believe that the English language is somehow more suited to preserving liberty? Or would any language do, as long as everyone understands it? In the case of the French revolution, it seems that the imposition of one language at the expense of all others undermined freedom of expression:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=356
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Interesting.....
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