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I think it’s time to start separating two fundamentally different issues: illegal immigration vs. illegal migratory workers.
Perhaps the biggest similarity between the Mexican border situation and the drug war is the fact that by imposing limits inconsistent with actual, i.e. market, reality, a black market spontaneously forms within which government essentially is denied ALL of it’s power to produce any kind of order whatsoever. Call it the paradox of government power: the imposition of the ultimate regulation results in no regulation at all.
Arguing on various political websites, I’ve noticed that while I support a position of deregulating US labor markets in regards to participation by foreign nationals, I’m invariably rebutted with arguments against the deregulation of citizen-track immigration. So now my response is: why do these two issues have to be glommed together? The socialist premises regarding labor on which our current regulatory regime is predicated are the problem in the first place.
The fact is, we can "charge admission" for an unlimited number of work visas for Mexicans without changing naturalization practices or increasing our quotas one iota. And by legalizing Mexican labor to the point where normal market equilibrium is free to occur, we can reach the point where Mexicans stop coming here on their own, and we won’t have to spend a nickel or lift a finger.
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