Tag: illegal immigrants

  • LTE: Illegal Immigration and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    Politicians and ideologues insist that illegal immigrants should be deported because they broke the law. But some laws ought to be broken. In 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act as part of a compromise between Southern slave-owners and Northern abolitionists. The law made it a duty for every law enforcement official…