No, I do not support deportations as a policy. If undocumented have jobs and live on private property, I have no objection to them. If there are undocumented that take advantage of government handouts, I say put up a "welfare wall" that prevents them from such handouts be they schooling. medical or whatever handouts.Do you oppose deportations? Didn't you oppose the GOP tax bill bc it would turn Texas blue?— Cat (@Cat9bx0219) February 14, 2018
My point with regard to the GOP tax bill was to point out to those who cheered the bill because it "punished" blue states is that the elimination of the SALT deduction in the bill will drive some blue state residents into red state country and potentially turn some red states blue.
I do not object to tax cuts in general. However, I continue to point out that Trump's tax cut is a scam because it doesn't at the same time cut government spending. Thus, the money will still be taken out of the economy but in more complex ways that confuse the general public but make the economy much less stable.
-RW
--- If undocumented have jobs and live on private property, I have no objection to them. ---
ReplyDeleteThat's the principled libertarian and even classical liberal position.
Pseudo-libertarians like Bionic Mosquito et al. make the apparently serious claim that immigrants are trespassers by definition, even when they enjoy contractual agreements with local property owners. The different explanations on why they make this claim range from the inevitable nature of the State or the "State is God" fallacy, to the idea that immigrants carry a disease called "culture" which can infect the local culture with recipes for delicious tamales or something.
--- If there are undocumented that take advantage of government handouts, I say put up a "welfare wall" that prevents them from such handouts ---
Another principled position. I would argue that welfare consumption by immigrants is much lower than what is reported by the anti-immigrant C.I.S. which has as much credibility as the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to anything. The C.I.S. plays fast and loose with statistics by conflating immigrants with American Citizens by lumping both under a "househild", so that immigrants are over-represented while native-born are under-represented when reporting welfare or other benefit use. The way they present their "findings" makes it seem like *individual immigrants* use more benefits than the native-born, a statistical sleight of hand.
--- be they schooling. medical or whatever handouts. ---
Schooling is not a handout. People have had their children taken away by the State for daring to homeschool them. Some "handout"!