Let me start with this: I have no libertarian theory-based qualms about Trump throwing Tren de Aragua out of the country. As far as I'm concerned, once the good people of Martha's Vineyard decided even they couldn't afford to take care of a few dozen destitute migrants, then certainly neither can little ol' me.

That goes double if you're a member of a prison gang. 

When we have a truly libertarian society where all property is private and no one, no matter where he was born, sets foot on property without the owner's permission, then you can do away with borders. Until that days comes, I'm going to pick my battles elsewhere.

However, we do have a vested interest in making sure it isn't done in a way that could come back to bite us later. The whole "invasion" argument is troublesome to me insofar as Trump is using it to try to justify war powers that aren't even valid if we were at war, which we are not.

We have a long history of Republican presidents setting bad precedents that subsequent Democratic presidents come into power and run wild with. The New Deal is one example. Most of the seeds of that atrocity were planted by Hoover, who was by no means the "laissez faire president" historians try to make him out to be. FDR simply came in and put them on steroids after running on fiscal austerity.

The truth is the immigration problem is one of the Republican Party's own making. It was a Republican Supreme Court that decided to "discover" immigration was a federal power in the first place. And they did it in a decision at least as spurious as Roe v. Wade. Prior to that, immigration was regulated by the states. In fact, it was a dispute with a California state immigration officer that led to it being usurped by the federal government, even though it is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.

And no, it's not hiding in between the lines of the Naturalization or 1808 clauses. Says who? James Madison, the guy who wrote those clauses, as well as the rest of the Constitution, that's who.

When Biden was flooding the country with illegals, some Republican governors like Ron DeSantis and Gregg Abbott wanted to take state action against it. But thanks to the spurious SCOTUS decision and decades of Republicans arguing immigration was indeed a federal power, they had to twist themselves in knots making the invasion argument, which no one really believes, not even them. 

I talk about all this and more on today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom.

Watch the video version of Episode 201 here...

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Tom Mullen is the author of It’s the Fed, Stupid and Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? 

 Tom